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Cleaning Products
The Importance of Product Testing by Your Home Cleaning Company
Product testing doesn’t have to be a complicated process or take much time, but it does need to be a planned and defined process with specific things to measure and reliable ways to measure them.
Security
Help Protect Your Home Against Burglary
There is no foolproof way to protect your home against a break-in, as a determined thief will find a way, but certain steps will help deter it.
Schools
Not Just for Looks: Outlining Reasons for Clean Schools
When a school looks clean and healthy, people tend to have a positive attitude about it. But looks can be deceiving: a clean-looking school may have been cleaned merely for appearance and not for health. Desks may have heavy chemical residues and bacterial contamination. Restrooms may have been treated with a harsh disinfectant — the sink handles wiped but not sanitized. A fragranced deodorizer or air freshener may be hanging in the air emitting chemicals without addressing the source of the odor.
Exercise
How to Get Fit – Tips for Baby Boomers
Consider these workout tips for baby boomers to help you enjoy and stick with your workout routine.
Indoor Air Quality
Simple Steps To Improve Indoor Air
Homeowners can take a number of steps to improve air quality and create a healthier living environment.
Motivation
Why Your Child Should Discover Nature - and How This Helps Your Housekeeping
Families that spend more time in nature may see surprising benefits. For starters, when the family and kids are outdoors, they are not underfoot and making housekeeping challenging. But there is much more...
Hand-washing
Stay Clean While Enjoying Outdoor Recreation
How to stay clean during outdoor activities.
Flooding
Got Flooding? Expert Help is Available
To help direct home owners and businesses during cleanup efforts, IEHA, and its education partners share steps for preventing mold growth after a catastrophic flood.
Integrated Pest Management
10 Ways to Control Pests at Home Without Poisons
Integrated pest management (IPM) is a preventive method for controlling pests or "bugs" by removing their food supply and keeping them out of homes - or from traveling within or between homes - instead of relying on pesticides.
Water
Water Testing Helps Ensure Better Water For Homeowners
Homeowners use water for many purposes, including drinking, cooking, washing, heating, humidifying, flushing (the No. 1 use of water in a home) and their pets. Those are just a few reasons homeowners should make sure they understand what’s in their water.
Food Safety
Barbecue and Food Safety
Cooking outdoors was once only a summer activity shared with family and friends. Now more than half of Americans say they are cooking outdoors year round. So whether the snow is blowing or the sun is shining brightly, it’s important to follow food safety guidelines to prevent harmful bacteria from multiplying and causing foodborne illness.
Recycling
Be Green and Healthy - At Home And Away
Finding ways to be more energy efficient and eco-positive isn’t just good for the environment — it can be good for your home, your family and your bottom line.
Restoration
Extreme Weather and Disaster Relief
How can homeowners undo the mess and ensure their home is safe, clean, and livable once again?
Pest Control
Preventive Pest Control
Follow these tips for helping to keep your home pest-free.
Food Safety
Don’t Sacrifice Safety When Using A Microwave
The convenience of microwave cooking can also present a few challenges—such as making sure that food prepared in a microwave is cooked to its safe temperature.
Furniture
Can Prolonged Sitting Be Dangerous to Health?
How much time does a person sit at home and how does it affect his or her overall health? Some studies note that worldwide the average person spends roughly 300 minutes, or 21% of their day sitting; many people spend much longer. What can remain after we get up? In many cases, “fallout”...
Cosmetics
Understanding the Role of Preservatives in Household Products
This article describes the role preservatives play in a product's life cycle, where preservatives are found, and how manufacturers choose preservatives and set preservative levels.
Fall Cleaning
Fall Into A Clean Home
Prepping our indoor living environment for the upcoming cold season and holidays can be a chore all by itself! Here's how to meet the challenge.
Smoke
Smoke Damage - A Menace to Civilization: What to Do?
Where there's fire, there's usually smoke. Although experts do their best to contain a fire, they are all but helpless in controlling the billowing clouds of smoke that fire creates. What can you do once the damage has been done?