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Early detection of COVID-19 in the workplace

Workplace Insight

A Thermo Fisher Scientific manufacturing site in Erlangen, Germany, has managed to avoid this situation, thanks largely to the installation of air sampling equipment that flags any positive cases in its vicinity. If the sample comes back positive, managers can assess the risk and decide what precautions should be taken. Newman, C.M.,

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Bringing the Outside In

Small Business CEO

The sight and smell of greenery (and any other colours you care to throw into the mix) elevates the feeling in a building and, according to NASA, living plants help to filter out airborne pollution.

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Greening Your Roof to Life

Eco-Office Gals

The advantages of green roofs are manifold, as they: • improve stormwater management and reduce runoff. improve air quality, as plants filter out airborne pollutants and take in CO2. Slate, after all, is so twentieth-century. Green is Good for You. reduce the urban heat island effect through the absorption of heat.

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The Hypocrisy of Kleenex Hand Towels

The Marq

I can accept the argument that any damp towel could attract airborne bacteria. If I were a product marketing manager at Kimberly-Clark, I’d search for or fund scientific studies to determine how to sell more regular hand towels and how sanitary they are, or figure out a way to create a cotton towel that’s more sanitary.

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Minimum Survival Kit

Brilliantly Better

But, somehow, I managed to get out of them. Spread the word: Save This To Delicious Subscribe to posts Related Posts Change management: it’s still you, only better Are You Copy Pasting Your Life? Introducing Assess - Decide - Do my life management framework. And after that year, I was reassigned to an Airborne unit at Ft.

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