CARST 2017 - 6th Annual Radon Conference Sets Record Attendance with Attendees from Eight Countries | | Alan Whitehead - President CARST, Mike Holmes Jr - Holmes Group & Bill Rounds - Director CARST at the annual conference in Banff
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Bringing together the most influential industry members, policy makers and radon stakeholders, this conference helped attendees accelerate their impact in 2017 and benefit from a rising public awareness of radiation exposure due to radon gas. The theme of this year's conference was PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS for RADON Industry, Awareness and Policy. The conference focused on practical strategies to help move attendees to the forefront as public awareness of radiation due to radon moves into the mainstream... read on |
| CELA Encouraging radon policy advocacy in the child care sector As you might expect, child care professionals have busy schedules and a lot of important safety rules to follow. Not included in this work is radon safety but it can and should be. We are encouraging child care professionals to advocate for updating child care licensing rules to require radon testing and mitigation in child care facilities... read on |
| Radon specialist shares tips on protecting homes from exposure Reducing radon gas-a deadly, naturally occurring substance-in homes is cheap, easy and effective, according to Colin Dumais, co-author of the recent University of Calgary study that found dangerous levels in Calgary and area residences. The study, led by researcher Aaron Goodarzi of the U of C's Cumming School of Medicine, indicated one in eight homes in the region, including High River, registered dangerously high amounts of the cancer-causing gas with levels between 200 and 3,441 Bq/m3... read on |
| New Issue of 2017 Citizens for Radioactive Radon Reduction CR3 News Due to increased awareness, physicians are encouraging patients to test for radon levels in their homes. Since the public views physicians as advisors on health & prevention of disease, physicians are in a unique position to inform patients about the serious risk of radon, and to educate their patients about testing for radon levels, thereby helping to reduce the number of lung cancer deaths. This issue provides insight as to what physicians around the world are doing regarding this deadly gas... read on |
| U.S. Budget Cuts Could Lead to More Radon Deaths In 2010, Gail Orcutt was diagnosed with lung cancer. The diagnosis came as a shock to the nonsmoker, who eventually had her entire left lung removed. She had no idea how she could have developed the disease until she came across an article about radon and learned it was the top cause of lung cancer among nonsmokers. She also discovered that her state, Iowa, has particularly high levels of radon, so she immediately had her home tested and found elevated levels. Remediation, the removal of radon from her home, was a simple process that took one day and left her wishing she had done it years ago... read on |
Radon Environmental Management Corp. (REM) News & Events
Recent Events REM had a very busy month! Are you following us on Facebook? Click here to view some photos of recent presentations and events by Radon Environmental! Upcoming Events Grey to Green Show 2017 - Quantifying Green Infrastructure Performance. May 8 - 10th, 2017, Toronto, ON. Visit us in Booth #311! Click here to register. Building Lasting Change 2017 - Vancouver, BC, May 30 - June 1, 2017 at Vancouver Convention Centre (West). Visit us in Booth #312! Click here to register.
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