Biohazard

Tony Shelton

BS Detector, Esquire
Last week we got a 5 story medical building contract. It's inside work so I gave it to my subcontractor. Today he called me and said he can't do the work because the manager of the 1st floor clinic says there are Aids patients there and we have to wear biohazard suits and dispose of the filters in biohazard bags.

Has anyone had any experience with this type of stuff?

The property manager says this is the first he's heard of it and they've been changing the filters with his own crew for over two years.
 
No, sub it to a bio haz mat team, charge them the teams price, and your price. It honestly sounds like the tenant is just being a pain. Probably something else going on there that they don't want you to know about.
 
No, sub it to a bio haz mat team, charge them the teams price, and your price. It honestly sounds like the tenant is just being a pain. Probably something else going on there that they don't want you to know about.


That's that the Pm said.
 
or his buddy was doing it before you or bidding the same gig.
 
They are telling you BS, AIDS is not airborne illness, if so they all would be wearing mask all the time if it was in the air system. If they said they had a AIDS patient that is a big no no
 
It may not be AIDS/HIV that is the problem. They may have patients with pneumonia caused by the onset of HIV, or some other communicable disease that AIDS can cause.
 
I worked for many years as an EMT for the London Ambulance Service, i was studying to be a paramedic and started studying microbiology and microbiological decontamination.

There are many issues with undertaking this type of work.

You can aerosole contamination quite easily by applying pressure near to it.
If a body fluid isn't dry it is more of a threat.

This is a deep subject which i am quite happy to share information on, but i have been studying it for many years and as my wife tells me i can be quite a bore on this.

Steve Scotter
 
Thanks Steve, it turns out the nurse thought we were changing filters on some sort of chamber they have for some kind of Chemotherapy or something. These were just HVAC filters in common areas where everyone walks, patients, doctors, nurses, etc.

They also have hepa filters up in the ceiling panels that get changed by another company that are before our filters so I think were going to be fine.
 
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