Survey Report: Evaluation of Ice Resurfacing Equipment and Ventilation in an Indoor Ice Arena, March, 2003

摘要

On October 17-18, 2002, in response to a request for technical assistance from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, engineers from the Engineering Control Technology Branch, Division of Applied Research and Technology, conducted an investigation of health complaints at an ice rink in Whitehall Pennsylvania. The complaints, documented in a National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) report, were centered on carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide emissions from the ice-resurfacing equipment. The NCEH report, which will include epidemiological data, has not been finalized at the time of this writing. This report focuses on the assessments of the building ventilation systems and some limited evaluations of the ice re-surfacing equipment. This study was conducted in conjunction with the efforts of NCEH epidemiologists and Pennsylvania Department of Health industrial hygienists.