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The IICRC Standards serve to develop common, industry-accepted language and terminology that enables us to more universally discuss concepts and procedures regarding cleaning, inspection, and restoration. The IICRC is an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) member and accredited standards developer. ANSI coordinates standards, conformity assessment, and related activities in the United States of America. ANSI is responsible for overseeing the development of national consensus standards and verifying that the requirements for due process, consensus, and other criteria for approval have been met by the standard’s developer. An American National Standard (ANS) is a Voluntary Consensus Standard, and unless mandated by law, compliance is voluntary. However, some have been adopted as code or regulation by local, state, or federal authorities.
ANSI coordinates the U.S. voluntary consensus standards system, providing a neutral forum for the development of policies on standards issues and serves as a watchdog for standards development and conformity assessment programs and processes. The ANSI process serves all standardization efforts in the United States by providing and promoting a process that withstands scrutiny while protecting the rights and interests of every participant. In essence, ANSI standards quicken the market acceptance of products while making clear how to improve the safety of those products for the protection of consumers. The IICRC serves as the secretariat for several ANSI committees that develop cleaning, inspection, and restoration related standards.
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Darren Foote: Restoration and Remediation Standards Vice Chairperson
David Oakes: Cleaning and Inspection Standards Vice Chairperson
Mili Washington: Standards Director
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This Standard will include both non-invasive and invasive (destructive) inspection of subfloors and substrates beneath carpet and hard surface floor covering; including poured in place concrete, precast hollow core prestressed concrete planks, structural concrete panels, plywood sheathing, OSB (oriented strand board), plank-board subfloors, stripwood subfloors, metal substrates, rolled sheet underlayments, heating mats and heating panels, sound control membranes, waterproofing membranes, crack isolation/crack suppression membranes, and moisture protection membranes.
Stakeholders include carpet installers, hard surface flooring installers, concrete repair technicians, carpet inspectors, hard surface flooring inspectors, concrete inspectors, flooring manufacturers, concrete producers, manufacturers of precast concrete, manufacturers of structural concrete panels, manufacturers of plywood sheathing, manufacturers of OSB, and manufacturers of metal substrates.
This Standard will describe the procedures to be followed when performing professional cleaning and maintenance of resilient flooring. It is the purpose of this Standard to define the methodology to be used by professional floor care providers for evaluation of resilient flooring for the purposes of identifying and applying appropriate cleaning and maintenance processes. Further, this Standard will describe methods to be used for cleaning and maintenance of common commercial resilient flooring materials.
Stakeholders include flooring manufacturers, chemistry manufacturers, maintenance equipment manufacturers, commercial maintenance service providers, professional maintenance technicians, flooring inspectors, sales and support professionals, architectural specifiers, building managers, distributors, and end users.
This standard will focus on the principles, methods, and processes to assess, inventory, pack-out, clean, restore, and enhance the appearance of contents. Contents are defined as materials, furniture, fixtures, and equipment located inside a building envelope. It is sometimes defined as personal property.
This standard will focus on the principles, methods, and processes to clean, maintain, and restore the built environment. We define the built environment as materials, building assemblies, structures, furniture, fixtures, and equipment located inside a building envelope. Further, this standard will focus on the commercial built environment and define tasks, frequencies, production expectations, goals, and results.
This standard will provide practical principles, methods, and processes to clean, sanitize, and evaluate the cleaning of the built environment. Further, this Standard will focus on reaching a hygienically clean outcome with verifiable results. This standard will also establish methods and processes to document, clean, sanitize, disinfect, and evaluate facilities that require a higher level of cleaning. This standard does not cover cleaning of healthcare or agricultural facilities.
This new Standard will establish a proper methodology and protocol for the inspection and evaluation of structure that is known or suspected to have mold contamination, and will promote proper methodology and processes for the assessment of mold-contaminated structures.
The S550 is a procedural standard for performing water damage restoration in commercial, industrial institutional, and complex residential structures, systems and furniture, fixtures and equipment. The proposed standard includes: Building and Material Science; Drying Complex Materials and Systems; Safety and Health; Project Coordination, Documentation, Logistics and Risk Management; Inspections, Preliminary Determinations and Pre-Restoration Evaluations; Limitations, Complexities, Complications, and Conflicts; Specialized Experts; Restoration Procedures; HVAC; Evaluation & Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment; Historical Buildings; Government, and Healthcare Facilities.
This Standard describes the principles, processes, and procedures for assessing the presence, intensity of impact, and boundaries of fire residues and odors affecting a building, building systems (e.g., Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning [HVAC]), and contents after a fire event. The fire event can occur within the building, an adjoining building(s), or building(s) in the vicinity impacted by an external or internal fire, other than wildfires. This Standard also describes the practical principles, methods, and processes including equipment, tools, and materials, for the restoration cleaning, and fire odor management of buildings and contents. This Standard also addresses contractor qualifications, administrative requirements, procedures, development of the Restoration Work Plan (RWP), documentation of project-related events, and compliance with Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ).
The ANSI/IICRC S700 Standard for Professional Fire and Smoke Damage Restoration includes the following which are described in the Standard:
Fire and Smoke Damage Restoration Contractor Qualifications
Administrative Requirements and Documentation
Fire and Smoke Damage (FSD) Assessment
Fire Restoration Equipment, Tools, and Materials (ETM)
Fire Restoration Mitigation
Source Removal
Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) and Air Conveyance Systems (ACS)
Fire and Smoke Odor Management
Fire and Smoke Damage Contents Restoration
Post Restoration Evaluation
Limitations, Complexities, Complications, and Conflicts
This Standard will include procedures to be followed and the precautions to be taken when organizing the work for a project involving the remediation and cleaning of a site that is contaminated by the residues of illicit drugs, cannabis, and tobacco. This standard will assume that all scenes have been released by law enforcement or regulatory agencies.
This Standard is currently in Revision
Standard describes the procedures to be followed and the precautions to be taken when performing water damage restoration in residential, commercial, and institutional buildings, and the systems and personal property contained within those structures.
This Standard assumes that the determination and correction of the underlying source or cause of the water intrusion leading to the water damage is the responsibility of the property owner and not the restorer, although the property owner may contract with the restorer or other specialized experts to perform these services.
Seventh Edition Published 2021
ANSI/IICRC S100 describes the procedures, methods, and systems to be followed when performing professional commercial and residential textile floor coverings (e.g., carpet and rugs) maintenance and cleaning. The purpose of this standard is to define criteria and methodology for evaluating carpet types, characteristics, and conditions and for establishing procedures for appearance retention, soil removal, and indoor environmental quality.
First Edition Published 2021
With hard surface floor covering failures rising, there is a need for a third party unbiased inspection evaluation and methodologies of a procedural standard for professionally inspecting hard surface floor covering. The new ANSI/IICRC S220 Standard for Hard Surface Floor Covering Inspection includes inspection of hard surface floor coverings, including stone, marble, laminate, wood, ceramic, and resilient. The document establishes a procedural standard for professionally inspecting hard surface floor coverings.
First Edition Published 2000
This Standard is currently in Revision
IICRC S300 is a procedural standard. It has been written using reliable principles, research, and practical experience, plus consultation with and information obtained from numerous sources. These include allied tradespersons; cleaning chemical and equipment formulators and manufacturers; upholstery and furniture manufacturers; international, national and regional trade associations; organizations serving the professionals cleaning industry, both independent and franchise; cleaning industry training schools; cleaning service companies; and others with specialized experience. IICRC S300 provides a specific set of practical standards for upholstery cleaning. It does not attempt to teach comprehensive upholstery cleaning procedures; rather, it provides the foundational principle for proper cleaning practice.
Second Edition Published 2023
ANSI/IICRC S540 Standard defines criteria and methodology used by the technician for inspecting and investigating blood and other potentially infectious material (OPIM) contamination and for establishing work plans and procedures. The Standard describes the procedures to be followed by professionals and the precautions to be taken when performing trauma and crime scene cleanup regardless of surface, item, or location. This standard assumes that all scenes have been released by law enforcement or regulatory agencies.
In Development
IICRC Field Guide for Safety and Health for Professional Cleaners’ and ‘IICRC Field Guide for Safety and Health for Disaster Restoration Professionals’ will supplement existing IICRC restoration standards and certification classes. The guides will include valuable information about safety and health hazard identification procedures, safe work practices, and control methods that prudent disaster restoration and cleaning professionals should employ.
These new field guides serve to address the needs of all participants of the cleaning and restoration industry, including cleaners, restorers, managers, end users, insurance adjusters, and indoor environmental professionals.
First Edition Published 2022
The IICRC Field Guide for Safety and Health for Professional Cleaners supplements existing IICRC restoration Standards and Certification classes. It includes valuable information about safety and health hazard identification procedures, safe work practices, and control methods that prudent disaster restoration and cleaning professionals should employ. This field guide serves to address the needs of all participants of the cleaning and restoration industry, including cleaners, restorers, managers, end users, insurance adjusters, and indoor environmental professionals.
This Field Guide supplements the existing IICRC Restoration Standards and Certification Courses containing valuable information that Restoration and Cleaning Professionals should employ:
- Safety and Health Hazard Identification Procedures
- Safe Work Practices
- Control Methods
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