Productivity and Health can both decline in a workplace with poor air quality, contributing to a bad breeding ground for viruses and moulds.
ย ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ซ: ย 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.
ย 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 donโt 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.ย
๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ป๐ต๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ต๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ๐ผ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฟ? ย 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 thereโs renovation activity occurring in the building or nearby, dust and other construction material by-products may circulate through the buildingโs 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.
ย Once the fibers are released into the air, they are easily inhaled and although they wonโt cause damage right away, thereโs still no cure for asbestos-related diseases. Although asbestos is now banned, itโs still present in many public buildings around the world.ย
ย 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.
This is the most common solution for most industries for good reasons.ย You pull air in from a large office space, squeeze it through a HEPA filter and expel itย 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.
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