Indoor Air Quality for Managers
Learning objectives
- Describe the potential hazards associated with indoor air contamination and explain what constitutes good indoor air quality.
- Identify the most common sources and contributing factors of poor indoor air quality in workplace settings.
- Recognize early warning signs and methods for detecting indoor air quality issues.
- Explain the short- and long-term health effects and symptoms that may result from exposure to indoor air contaminants.
- Understand your role and responsibilities as a manager in addressing, mitigating, and preventing indoor air quality problems to safeguard your team’s health and productivity.
Course overview
The quality of the air in your workspace is more important than you might think. Indoor air quality, or IAQ, is the air quality within and around buildings and structures. It's easy to overlook something as mundane as air quality, but breathing low-quality air throughout your workday can lead to many health problems over time. In this course, we'll discuss those issues, and go over the benefits of having high-quality air in your workplace. We'll also talk about how pollutants enter your building, and discuss solutions to improve your air quality
The individuals involved in the development and promotion of this course do not receive any compensation or financial benefits outside of their regular employment for their work on this course.
- 10 minutes
- Format: Video
- Tier: 1
- Course ID: 11666
English
Course Outline
- The Invisible Threat
- Sources of Indoor Air Pollution
- The Montage: Real Voices
- How to Spot the Signs
- 3 Lines of Defense
- The Long-Term Payoff