TAMPA, Fla. - Now more than ever, the risks of emerging infectious diseases, pandemics, and biological weapons place a heavy burden on hospital administrators and their mechanical operations staff, including mechanical systems subcontractors.
Contractors may not need to know the full etiology, but in order to work effectively in the hospital and health care market, they need knowledge of these diseases, plus pressurized isolation space techniques and ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) methods.