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Steps to Healthier Homes: Keep it Clean and Green

Learn why maintaining a clean and easily cleanable home is crucial to reducing exposure to various contaminants, allergens, and pests. Discover tips on creating a healthy living environment, including effective cleaning methods and strategies to minimize dust, allergens, and clutter.

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Steps to Healthier Homes: Keep it Clean and Green

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  1. Steps to Healthier Homes Keep it clean

  2. Page 5.1 Learning Objectives

  3. Page 5.1 Why is clean and easily cleanable important? • Reduce exposure to: • Chemical contaminants • Allergens • Pest droppings and urine • Pesticides • Heavy metals such as lead and arsenic • Reduced harborage for pests

  4. Page 5.1 Environmental Allergens • Animals • Dust Mites • Molds • Tree Pollen • Grass Pollen • Weed Pollen • Latex • Foods • Stinging Insects • Medications

  5. Page 5.2 Dust mites in humid and dry buildings

  6. Page 5.2

  7. Page 5.3 Where does house dust come from?

  8. Page 5.3 Brought In Dust • Four Steps • Hard Surface Walkways • Outside Grate-Like Mat • Inside Carpet Pad • Hard Surface Floor

  9. Page 5.3

  10. Page 5.3 Shoes Off – Less Dust Enters

  11. Page 5.3 Healthy Cleaning

  12. Page 5.4 Make buildings more cleanable • Dust walk-off systems at entryways • Dust-creating activities away from people. • Smooth, cleanable surfaces • Effective storage space • Flooring that is easy to clean • Vacuums with good filtration and easy to use

  13. Page 5.4 Isolate Problems Keep pets off beds and out of the bedroom.

  14. Page 5.4 Cleanable Flooring

  15. Page 5.5 What to look for in a vacuum?

  16. Page 5.5 Older Carpets: Difficult to Clean

  17. Page 5.6 Wire Shelving

  18. Page 5.6 How clean is clean? • Clearance testing for lead • 40 micrograms of lead per square foot on floors • 250 micrograms of lead per square foot on window sills. • Standards for allergens? • Standards for dust?

  19. Page 5.6 Problematic cleaning measures • Carpet cleaning • Overuse of anti-microbials • Sanitizers • Air fresheners

  20. Page 5.6 Duct Cleaning

  21. Page 5.7 Clutter • What’s the problem? • What do we do to help? Organize home,shelves and storage bins. • Hoarding? What’s the psychological aspect of this?

  22. Page 5.7 Code Requirements Code requirements related to cleanliness

  23. Page 5.8 Key Messages • Pesticides, allergens, and general chemicals in the home can cause allergic reactions, asthma and asthma exacerbation, and toxic exposure effects. • Potential sources of allergens and contaminants in the home come from outdoor and indoor sources. • Keeping a home clean includes controlling the source, creating smooth and cleanable surfaces, reducing clutter, and using effective cleaning methods.

  24. Page 5.8 Learning Objectives

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