#35 - Brad Prezant: Ensuring Healthier Indoor Spaces - Occupational Hygiene, Ventilation Challenges, and Moisture Management

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A conversation with Brad Prezant
Although I have followed Brad for years, I finally got to meet him last year in Copenhagen, and finally, we managed to find some time to get him on the podcast. I've been keen to bring the occupational health and hygiene lens to our discussions, and what a great guest to talk about the subject.
We talk about the voice of this discipline in indoor air quality, building assessments, and even meth labs! I think you will enjoy the discussion.
He is a public health and occupational health scientist with an epidemiology and public health perspective.
He works primarily as a consultant, with additional experience as a University-based research scientist. He has assessed indoor air quality and ventilation, as well as mould and moisture, in airports, hospitals, public buildings, and schools since 1979.
He is one of 50 people worldwide with the designation Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), with a sub-specialty in Indoor Air Quality.
An author of numerous professional documents published by professional societies addressing indoor mould, including a co-author of the Bioaerosols chapter in Aerosols Handbook: Measurement, Dosimetry, and Health Effects, and editor of the first edition of Recognition, Evaluation, & Control of Indoor Mold, published by the AIHA.
He is the author of AIRAH’s Guidance Document for Schools: COVID-19 Ventilation Optimisation and was a contributor to the Harvard School of Public Health document on airborne transmission of COVID-19 in airports. He is a frequent speaker on topics related to indoor air quality, bushfire smoke, indoor moisture and mould, asbestos, methamphetamine labs, and ventilation.
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1. Occupational Hygiene in Air Quality (00:00:00)

2. Wellness and Ventilation (00:13:23)

3. Navigating Uncertainty in Occupational Hygiene (00:18:59)

4. Understanding Risk Communication in Occupational Hygiene (00:29:20)

5. Identifying Ventilation Issues in Buildings (00:40:32)

6. Verifying Building Ventilation Performance (00:46:36)

7. Improving Building Ventilation Performance (00:57:43)

8. Health-Based Indoor Air Quality Prioritization (01:04:40)

9. Indoor Air Quality in Residential Buildings (01:11:03)

10. Residential Moisture and Health Impacts (01:19:28)

11. Residential Methamphetamine Remediation and Hygiene (01:25:00)

12. Challenges of Building Moisture Management (01:42:16)

13. Building Tightening and Ventilation Education (01:47:39)