Why Air Quality Monitoring Is Important at Your Workplace

In order to make sure that you and your coworkers aren’t getting sick at work, you need to establish air quality monitoring.

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One of the best ways to see if there might be an issue that requires air quality monitoring is to check to see what kinds of complaints your coworkers might be having – health complaints, that is.

Ask around to see who’s been having upper respiratory issues, like coughing and sneezing. While you might have excused these symptoms as the latest bug that’s going around, they might actually be indicating that you are getting sick from the air around you.

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Another thing that you will want to consider when you are talking to other workers is where they might feel sicker. There might be ‘hot spots’ of air issues that will need to addressed specifically, rather than a general issue with all of the air.

Once you have this information, you can approach your boss or supervisor about air quality monitoring. Who knows? They might be suffering from the same symptoms.

What might be causing the problems?

Because you’re in an office, you might think that there aren’t causes for air quality monitoring issues. You don’t open windows and you’re using a high quality filtration system, but there are smaller things that can contribute to your symptoms.

One of the biggest factors in office sicknesses is the installation of new carpets which contain chemicals in their coloring and adhesives. When the carpets are installed, these chemicals are released into the air for everyone to breathe. And they can remain in the air for months at a time unless some sort of air treatment is used.

So if you think that you might be suffering from respiratory symptoms because of the air that you’re breathing at work, you owe it to yourself and to your coworkers to come up with an air quality monitoring system so that you can all stay healthy and productive. In the end, that’s what matters when you’re at work.

Steve Taub is an expert in controlling emissions and pollutants in the air, so if you need any help determining what you need – home or work – just contact him.