Healthy Office Environments ensure Proper Indoor Air Quality

Office Environments present a unique challenge to ensure the area is healthy for all employees working.  Typically offices are setup for efficiency to ensure space is being utilized properly and production can be done effectively.  Workers are typically in close proximity to one another for long periods of time.  The Indoor Air Quality of the space can ensure a healthy environment or lead to very poor working conditions.

Poor Indoor Air Quality can cause employees to be less productive and develop headaches while performing their daily duties.  A sick employee can spread the illness to the rest of the staff, which leads to employees out sick and a major hit in productivity.  A Certified Safety Professional has the necessary equipment to test all areas of the facility to ensure healthy working conditions.  The equipment has the capability to accurately detect different particles in the air.  The Certified Safety Professional will compile a detailed report after careful analysis of the reports generated by the monitoring equipment.  Any problematic areas will also have a recommendation to improve the indoor air quality.

A major component to healthy air inside the office starts with the ventilation system.  The ventilation system is typically one of the final components of the building process considered and can lead to improper outside air being circulated within the facility.  Some types of job roles produce a larger amount of fumes or particles in the air.  The company may need to provide respirators to the employees while working in these conditions and change the filters for the respirators on a regular basis.  The Certified Safety Professional can conduct a Fit Test to ensure the respirators are functioning properly and maintained.  This test should be conducted on a regular periodic basis to address any nonfunctioning equipment or address changes to the employee’s body type with weight loss or gain.

Proper Indoor Air Quality can affect each employee in different ways and the company has the responsibility to protect the worker’s health while on the jobsite.  Each facility presents unique challenges and requires different solutions.  Click hereto contact a Certified Safety Professional to work with your company to test the Indoor Air Quality.  The employees rely on the company for a safe working environment and OSHA demands safe conditions.  Costly fines can be issued by OSHA for unsafe working conditions and the company could have operations reduced or halted until the proper changes have been made to restore a healthy working environment.