“As we all work to cope with the changes that are happening due to COVID-19, Hayward Score is committed to bringing you fact-based, expert resources to help you and your family live in a home that supportive of good health. We’ll add new resources frequently, so check back and follow us on social media.”
– Bill Hayward, CEO & Founder Hayward Score
NEW: FOR BUILDING INDUSTRY PROS
The construction industry can lead the way for job-site safety and pass along healthy habits to workers who bring them home to their families. This keeps the economy going and reduces COVID-19 risk for everyone. Learn the steps you take on your job site with our newest video:
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For more industry resources:
Construction Guidance
Construction Checklist
Hayward Lumber COVID-19 Resource Page
COVID Safer Materials List
Press Release 09/10/20
BACK TO SCHOOL
As schools start to reopen, make sure they are taking all the steps they can to keep students, faculty, and staff healthy. Learn what the experts recommend as best-practice Risk Reduction Strategies for Reopening Schools and use the Harvard-CU Boulder Portable Air Cleaner Calculator for Schools to understand what air cleaners will work for your space.
Research is now showing that Coronavirus may be airborne indoors. How should you protect yourself from a virus that may be floating indoors? Avoid the 3 Cs: (1) Closed and poorly ventilated spaces, (2) Crowds, and (3) Close contact. And increase ventilation!
Not only is fresh air a “natural disinfectant” but it can also help to dilute virus-carrying particulates. It can also help to keep you from feeling “foggy” and the house from feeling “stuffy.” Opening your windows is one of the easiest things you can do to keep your home and family healthy.
NPR: Fresh Air Can Prevent Aerosol Transmission of the Coronavirus
Staying at home has presented families with lots of challenges – but have you considered that experiencing health symptoms (not related to COVID-19) may be one of them? Extended exposure to the changing environment inside your home (like higher CO2 levels or more chemicals from increased cleaning) can cause you or family members not to feel well at home. Consider what might be impacting how you feel at home. NOTE: COVID-19 is an emergent and evolving health issue; as new research is done symptoms associated with COVID-19 may change. This information is not a substitute for a consultation with a medical professional.
As we are all coming to terms with an issue of enormous scale and human impact, our thoughts are with everyone globally as we are confronted by the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19).
Home is the foundation of good physical and mental health. Now that many people are finding themselves, and their families, home for longer periods of time, we wanted to pass along a few tips to show you how not to turn your home into an indoor chemistry experiment.
Air cleaners (also called air purifiers) can be an important tool for reducing your exposure to airborne particulate matter and thereby reducing the health risks associated with that exposure.
The COVID-19 virus has many similarities with the other corona-type viruses, plus those for the common cold and the flu. Therefore, routine preventive measures for those also apply to COVID-19. However, COVID-19 also has critically important differences.
The COVID-19 pandemic is at the top of everyone’s mind, both by public health mandate and for personal survival. COVID-19 is called a “novel” coronavirus because it is a new variation within the family of the more common coronaviruses, and also because it is occurring in a world, unlike previous viruses.
“Good, solid education included in the survey, and the score is a very needed measure for people to reduce and address health issues in their home. Thank You!”
“Very enlightening! I learned a great deal about how to improve my own health by improving the “health of my house.”
“I hope others find out their score because I don’t want others to experience the health issues I have had from the mold in my home. It is not fun to constantly be sick!”
“The scoring process and detailed report allows someone to see how their environment can positively or negatively affect the health of those they love and themselves.”
