New TCNA Bulletin Highlights Ceramic Tile’s Inherent Health, Safety

Ceramic tile manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and those involved in the sale and selection of construction materials have a new resource available to communicate the many benefits of choosing ceramic tile, particularly when health and safety are primary considerations. Many worksites already make use of Raken and other applications to help monitor both safety regulations and concerns on that specific site, and allowing room for such considerations on the product side of ceramic tile production can only help improve this relationship and workplace safety for all involved. It also helps make it easier to track progress on that portion of a construction project. This is one option for health and safety, but there are a few more. Some other workplaces might want to consider visiting https://www.icwgroup.com/pc/safety/safety-resources/ to see if their resources will help more workplaces to become a lot safer. This is essential for any workplace, but particularly for those who may be working dangerous jobs.

Tile Council of North America (TCNA) produced a bulletin to provide at-a-glance information in response to increasing interest in the human health and safety aspects of various building materials, in both commercial and residential construction. “People are seeing media reports on formaldehyde in laminate flooring, and phthalates in the PVC in vinyl flooring, and are worried,” says TCNA Executive Director Eric Astrachan. “Just last week Dr. Oz did a segment on the potential toxicity of laminate flooring products. We don’t know which products specifically are concerning, but what we do know, and what we want to help consumers understand, is that these concerns are simply non-issues when it comes to ceramic tile.”

Specifically, the bulletin points to these health, safety, and environmental aspects of ceramic tile:

• VOC, Formaldehyde, and PVC-Free
• Hypoallergenic
• Made of natural ingredients
• Has a 60-year service life
• Non-flammable/zero smoke development
• Wide availability of slip-resistant options

Read the bulletin in its entirety here.