Impacts of the Indoor Air Quality on the Health of the Employee and Protection against These Impacts

Ferdi Tanir and Burak Mete

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Abstract: Workplace indoor factors are among the factor which affect the health of workers most in all sectors. Another important one of these factors is the air quality of the workplace. There are three main groups of workplace indoor pollutants: biological ones, chemical ones and particles (non-biological). They were grouped as asbestos, biological pollutants, carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), formaldehyde/pressed wooden products, lead (Pb), nitrogen dioxide, (NO2), Radon (Rn), indoor particle substances, environmental tobacco smoke, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), humidity, odor and wood smoke. The workplace indoor air pollutants are among the primary indoor air pollutants with serious effects on health and the potential to deteriorate the workers' health. Healthy indoor air quality is defined as the indoor air which does not contain hazardous substances and does not create sense of discomfort in at least 80% of the workers in the workplace. Poor indoor may result in a variety of health problems, from headache, dizziness and nausea, to asthma, cardiovascular diseases, cancer and death.

Keywords: air quality; worker; health effect; prevention; VOCs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.102708

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