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Disaster Advice Glossary
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Disaster recovery and restoration can be veiled in mystery to the many who have not undertaken specific training. This glossary explains technical terms to assist both report writing and the understanding of those technical terms so often misunderstood.
Definition
| Building Related Illness (RI): |
A building which has been scientifically diagnosis as having a chronic illness, and the illness will not go away on its own without scientific monitoring, intervention and remediation. See Building Sickness From Flooding, Sick Building Syndrome. |
| Building Sickness from Flooding: |
Like humans, buildings too are succeptable to colds, flu and virus-like conditions. When flooding occurs in buildings, wood and other materials become swollen and saturated. Mitigation Note: a) In fresh water flooding, if building materials and contents are not properly dried out, cleaned and put back to their prior healthy state, unwanted mold and mildew will increase and use wet, damp, moist building materials as their host material. Health Note: b) In gray water and sewage flooding, bacterial elements are able to harbor in sewage saturated building materials. If the building is not professionally decontaminated back to its prior healthy state, bacterial toxins may eventually cause sickness to building occupants, as well as produce other health effects. See Aflatoxins, BRI, Coliforms, Endotoxins, Exotoxins, Gram-Negative Bacteria, Mycotoxins, Sanitization, SBS, Sewage Mitigation |
| Sick Building Syndrome (SBS): |
A description of situations in which building occupants experience acute or chronic health concerns from building related contaminates, besides other concerns such as discomfort from thermal comfort effects. Health and Mitigation Note: The acute and chronic health complaints may be localized to a particular room or zone, or the complaints may have spread throughout the whole building. Most occupant illness and irritation from sick buildings are associated with the ventilation system. See Building Related Illness, Building Sickness from Flooding. |
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