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IAPMO published the 2021 Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC) and the 2021 Uniform Mechanical Code (UMC) in March. The codes were improved with safety provisions for the protection from legionellosis, safe installation of alkaline water treatment devices, and protecting homes with the inclusion of requirements for leak detection, just to list a few.
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Toward the goal of keeping plumbing manufacturers contributing during the pandemic, PMI issued a letter to Vice President Mike Pence to urge the Trump administration to identify plumbing manufacturing workers as "essential" and allowed to work as shelter-in-place or stay-at-home orders go into effect.
Members of the Building Trades Unions, along with their union contractor partners, have been collecting new, unopened respirators and other vital personal protective equipment (PPE) to aid the city’s frontline health care workforce.
The list identifies those professions deemed essential to continued critical infrastructure viability and advises such workers to continue normal operations, appropriately modified to account for Centers for Disease Control (CDC) workforce and customer protection guidance.
The ‘AD Live’ virtual meeting was introduced the week prior after AD decided to shift its spring network meetings to virtual formats in order to minimize the risks associated with the current COVID-19 pandemic.
All eyes are on the spreading coronavirus, and distributors have an especially important task in managing the challenges that arise from the global health crisis.
It is likely that the COVID-19 coronavirus can be spread through building sanitary drainage systems; as long as the pandemic is still active, it should be assumed by anyone working on a sanitary drainage system that the virus is present.