As members of the restoration and remediation (R&R) industry, we are in the business of ghost busting. On a daily basis, we battle mysterious, invisible and scary stuff. Most of our foes are imperceptible, being unseeable, untouchable and unsmellable. 

Buildings, or portions thereof, are often vacated as part of restoration and remediation projects.

Cooties. According to playground lore, little girls and boys carry heaps of them.

I once was fearful of sounding like a broken record. But, nearly 20 years of industrial hygiene consulting and teaching environmental health and safety suggest the hazards, regulations and ubiquity of materials containing asbestos fibers beseech repeating.

You can go from hero to zero in a New York second if your restoration and remediation activities degrade the indoor environment by disturbing or creating what I like to call bad “stuff.”