Fleming, EJNice, Jako A2014-10-242014-10-242014-07Fleming, E.J and Nice, J.A. 2014. The South African legislative environment, in critical need of scientific evidence based alignment for airborne control. In: The 13th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, Hong Kong, 7-12 July 2014http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7732The 13th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, Hong Kong, 7-12 July 2014. Pre print attached.Review of evidence based research indicates that there are best practice principles that can be applied to the design of the built environment with regard to the reduction of the risk of cross infection from airborne diseases in health facilities. However, analysis of South African building legislation and regulations specific to airborne control and the built environment has identified that there are a number of legislated regulations that are contrary to these best practice design principles. A data matrix was compiled after comparing research of peer reviewed articles, Government gazettes, International and South African health guidelines and South African National Standards for buildings against the current South African legislation and regulations specific to airborne control and the built environment. The aim to identify the building legislation that does not satisfy known scientific peer review published data and evidence base research on airborne contamination and to stimulate a process of amendment to the regulations.enHealth regulationsAirborne disease controlHealth facilitiesTuberculosisSouth African building regulationsIndoor air qualityBuilding air qualityConference PresentationFleming, E., & Nice, J. A. (2014). The South African legislative environment, in critical need of scientific evidence based alignment for airborne control. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7732Fleming, EJ, and Jako A Nice. "The South African legislative environment, in critical need of scientific evidence based alignment for airborne control." (2014): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7732Fleming E, Nice JA, The South African legislative environment, in critical need of scientific evidence based alignment for airborne control; 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7732 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Fleming, EJ AU - Nice, Jako A AB - Review of evidence based research indicates that there are best practice principles that can be applied to the design of the built environment with regard to the reduction of the risk of cross infection from airborne diseases in health facilities. However, analysis of South African building legislation and regulations specific to airborne control and the built environment has identified that there are a number of legislated regulations that are contrary to these best practice design principles. A data matrix was compiled after comparing research of peer reviewed articles, Government gazettes, International and South African health guidelines and South African National Standards for buildings against the current South African legislation and regulations specific to airborne control and the built environment. The aim to identify the building legislation that does not satisfy known scientific peer review published data and evidence base research on airborne contamination and to stimulate a process of amendment to the regulations. DA - 2014-07 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Health regulations KW - Airborne disease control KW - Health facilities KW - Tuberculosis KW - South African building regulations KW - Indoor air quality KW - Building air quality LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2014 T1 - The South African legislative environment, in critical need of scientific evidence based alignment for airborne control TI - The South African legislative environment, in critical need of scientific evidence based alignment for airborne control UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7732 ER -