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What is Vermiculite and How Do We Use It? Vermiculite is a naturally occurring flaky mineral that resembles mica. It was first described in ...

At RPF Environmental, we encounter customers that are confused and frustrated by different information they receive from inspection companies ...

Asbestosis and Silicosis , have come to the forefront in the past decades as noncancerous diseases that can seriously damage the health of workers who ...

Following Universal Waste Management Standards to Protect the Environment April 22 nd is Earth Day – a day dedicated to bringing awareness to the ...

Across New England, RPF Environmental provides environmental testing and consulting services to companies in a number of industries. For more than 25 ...

Every year we see renovation projects go into tailspins, at least temporarily, because of unplanned environmental health & safety (EH&S) issues. ...

How to Step Up your HVAC for Covid-19 There is real concern over air transmission of the Covid-19 virus and indoor air quality (IAQ) because varying ...

A Breath of Fresh Air Can Go a Long Way Studies show that Americans spend about 90% of their time indoors on average, and those who are most ...

Schools can run the gamut with all the same IAQ risks as any other building owner or employer. There are often extra contaminant sources in areas such ...

For most people, the quality of the air that they breathe is the last thing on their mind. Sickness is contributed to unhealthy surfaces and the ...

RPF Environmental Celebrates National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Children are some of the most vulnerable people in our society, and this is also ...

How to Protect Yourself from Lead Poisoning National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week is an opportunity to look at this very real problem that affects ...

Stories of Mold If you do a search on “stories of mold” on the internet, you will find many horrible stories about people becoming seriously ill and ...

About Mold Mold has an important job in the environment which is to break down organic material. There are thousands of species of mold; the most ...

Everyone knows that air pollution, smoking, and second-hand smoke cause lung cancer. In fact, smoking causes 90% of lung cancer cases. Lung cancer in ...

University Systems of New Hampshire Awarded Term Contract to RPF Environmental, Inc. Northwood NH, February 19, 2020: University Systems of New ...

We at RPF Environmental salute HNTB, an infrastructure solutions firm, for recently being awarded the silver Engineering Excellence award by the ...

Health and Safety Plans In the prior four blogs of this series, we discussed Industrial Hygiene as it relates to silica , noise , exposure monitoring ...

OSHA Inspections Industrial Hygiene is about forecasting the risks that workers may face on the job, finding and analyzing potential issues, and ...

On January 21, 2021 President Biden issued an Executive Order for Protection of Worker Health and Safety. Amongst other things, it requires that the ...

About Legionnaires’ Disease With summer coming, it is prudent to keep Legionnaires’ Disease in mind. Legionella is a naturally- occurring aquatic ...

Some Tips for Preventing Legionnaires’ Disease in Your Building If you read through parts one to three of this four-part blog series, you will be able ...

In last week’s blog, we reviewed Legionellosis and its impacts. We talked about how Legionnaires’ disease is on the rise and that better water ...

What is Radon? Radon is a silent killer: you can’t see it, smell it, or taste it. People experience no symptoms until, after prolonged exposure, they ...

Health and Safety Plans In the prior four blogs of this series, we discussed Industrial Hygiene as it relates to silica , noise , exposure monitoring ...

What is Exposure Monitoring? Industrial Hygiene deals with planning for or anticipating, identifying, analyzing, and finding ways to control workers’ ...

What is Industrial Hygiene (IH)? As we mentioned in the last blog post in this series, Industrial Hygiene is the science and art of anticipating, ...

Asbestosis and Silicosis , have come to the forefront in the past decades as noncancerous diseases that can seriously damage the health of workers who ...

What is Vermiculite and How Do We Use It? Vermiculite is a naturally occurring flaky mineral that resembles mica. It was first described in ...