Gold’s EHS Outlook

by Dave Gold, CIH CSP President, Gold Health and Safety Consulting, Inc. December 4, 2025 Hopefully, you’ve read my accompanying article A Look Back At What We Learned And What You Need To Know. As I mentioned, we have used our experience with testing contaminated and remediated homes to form our opinions and recommendations on what makes sense for testing homes that were affected by the wildfire. So, what do we recommend that people test for post-remediation? What Kind of Samples Should I Get...

by Dave Gold, CIH CSP President, Gold Health and Safety Consulting, Inc. December 4, 2025 I’d like to share with you Gold Health and Safety Consulting’s experience from sampling over 375 homes since MLK day in January 2025, and what we have learned. We are using this knowledge to inform our recommendations for post-remediation testing. This may be more information than what some people wish to read, but we’ve got clients that have wanted to know everything in detail.  So here goes! As exp...

by Dave Gold, CIH CSP President, Gold Health and Safety Consulting, Inc. October 29, 2025 Are you aware that working with crystalline silica requires periodic monitoring per Cal/OSHA? This is your reminder! Many business owners recently have faced surprise inspections with citations because they fell behind on the required periodic sampling, didn’t have a written program, respirator compliance issues including training and fit testing, and more. Staying compliant protects your employees and ke...

Certified Industrial Hygienist’s Guide for Recovery for Indoor Environmental Issues. by Dave Gold, CIH CSP President, Gold Health and Safety Consulting, Inc. January 29, 2025 – Last update 2/5/25 Being born in, and having lived in the greater L.A. area all my life, like most long-term residents, I’m very familiar with the havoc wildfires can wreak.  I remember the September 1970 fire, which burned all the way from where the 405 Freeway exits the San Fernando Valley at its north end, towar...

  As businesses and schools begin to open up after months of shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, experts are warning that additional hazards could be waiting for returning occupants. One of those hazards can happen when building water systems are not maintained, causing stagnant water in the piping to occur.  The reason for concern? Legionella.   Bicentennial Beginnings In the summer of 1976, the nation swelled with pride and patriotism. It was our bicentennial. In Philadelphia, no...