Category: Healthy & Safety

Productivity and Health can both decline in a workplace with poor air quality, contributing to a bad breeding ground for viruses and moulds.

 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫:
 Indoor air quality is essential for a healthy office environment. However, as modern buildings have become more energy efficient, they have also become more airtight, increasing the potential for poor indoor air and pathogens.

 Covid-19 has introduced many new chemicals in the office that can give off VOC gasses hampering good air quality; this and closing windows to keep heat in soon will add to the problem this Autumn and Winter if we don’t act now.

It is a standard scientific unit of measurement. Standard Dry Air is made up of nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, neon, helium, krypton, hydrogen, and xenon. 

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗶𝗿?
 Air that is detrimental to our health & comfort. Air that maintains viruses, funguses that other pathogens detrimental to us.Air that has a relative humidity outside 40-60% according to WHO standards.

Air containing unhealthy levels of CO2 & particulates that can stick in your lungs Air that is not rejuvenated regularly (stale dead air, as an example)

The same goes for those near agricultural farming land and manufacturing. Finally, if there’s renovation activity occurring in the building or nearby, dust and other construction material by-products may circulate through the building’s ventilation system.

Hazardous materials (COSHH 2002) Asbestos was a popular material for insulation and fireproofing. Also the spores in the air that make your apple go brown are all around us.

 Once the fibers are released into the air, they are easily inhaled and although they won’t cause damage right away, there’s still no cure for asbestos-related diseases. Although asbestos is now banned, it’s still present in many public buildings around the world. 

 Even if you work or live in a newer building, asbestos exposure is still a possibility; building owners must promptly contact specialists for asbestos removal so that wider contamination can be prevented.

𝐇𝐄𝐏𝐀 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
“High-Efficiency Particulate Arresting”

This is the most common solution for most industries for good reasons.  You pull air in from a large office space, squeeze it through a HEPA filter and expel it out the other side with 99.97% of all harmful PM 2.5 stuck fast in the filter, you landfill and replace it when full just like your vacuum bag.

 𝐇𝐄𝐏𝐀 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬.