Ventilation and You
Do you sometimes feel that you are stifling when you are inside your home or in your work area? Or do you experience watery eyes, sneezing or itchy skin or throat on entering a building? Then it is likely you may be experiencing the symptoms of an improperly ventilated building. So you may be […]
Turning up the Heat on Legionella Awareness
American writer, David Auerbach, said it best: “In Wine there is Wisdom. In Beer there is Freedom. In Water there is Bacteria”. More than just a catchy phrase, it is also true, well at least about water. This article highlights one of the lesser-known waterborne bacteria: Legionella. What is Legionella? Legionellais a pathogenic (disease-causing) group […]
Managing Risk: Reducing Slips, Trips and Falls in the Food and Beverage Industry
Risk Management is not a new subject and it is not one that should be ignored, especially by companies in the Food and Beverage Industry. Risk management’s overall objective is to assure the organization that uncertainty does not deflect from the effort of achieving the business goals. Nothing should be more important to the food […]
The Mobile App Industry
The market for smartphones and mobile apps is a closely related market, moreover, withTrinidad and Tobago and other English-speaking Caribbean islands being tiny domestic marketsfor mobile app developers, internationalization is a key strategy for mobile app ventures lookingto scale up.The most recent statistics from the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad andTobago show mobile phone penetration of […]
Stimulating Innovative Ideas
Tiffany Krumins had difficulty giving medicine to a child with special needs. She decided that night to create a special medicine dropper that would make the administering of medicine to children easier. She used the recording device of a greeting card and constructed an elephant head in which she hid the dropper. Ava the Elephant […]
Managing Wastewater in Trinidad and Tobago
It is a growing challenge to meet human needs by providing a source of clean and affordable water. This has become quite evident over the last few years and is a problem that needs to be solved as soon as possible. The increasing demand for clean water, population growth, climate change and water quality deterioration […]
WHAT’S LURKING IN YOUR BED?
Ever have an uncomfortable night’s rest, woken up feeling congested, achy or itchy? At first, you might try to recall what you did the day before or start scanning your room looking for probable sources. All this, without realizing that the bed you’re lying in may just be the culprit. Mattresses, pillows, beddings, upholstery and […]
WORKPLACE INDOOR AIR QUALITY AND YOU
Do you suffer from one or more of the following symptoms when you are at work: headaches, lethargy, coughing, sneezing, itchy skin, throat, eyes and nose, skin rashes, increased frequency of sinus and asthma attacks? Do you experience these symptoms only at work? Do they disappear after leaving the building? Then the Indoor Air Quality […]
3 ways calibration can affect your profits in this “recession”
ONLY THAT WHICH IS MEASURED CAN BE IMPROVED While our country seeks for ways to bear this economic downturn, companies will have to find efficient ways of maximizing profits while reducing expenses. Transportation, industry, trade – everything our economic world revolves around is affected by measurement. A price is attributed to a quantity of goods […]
Reinforcing the concrete structures
Part III :Role of good quality rebars in improving the durability of civil constructions and their endurance to natural disasters As stated in second Part of this series of report, ASTM A615/A615M has no provisions to control higher values of yield strength (YS), minimum tensile to yield strength ratio and upper limit of tensile strength […]