It is essential to implement proper pharmaceutical IAQ standards for carrying out smooth working operations. The quality of air within the surroundings ensures that medicines are safe and employees feel secure. Air quality affects product quality and controls contamination. Most organizations have started to appoint robust IAQ standards for following an effective quality control plan. […]
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Apr
Apr
Data centers are the foundation of the current digital environment. They hold and manage critical data for businesses, apps, and people. These facilities operate around the clock, and everything must be working smoothly. But what are the outcomes if the air in the data center is not hygienic and causing issues? Let’s read how poor […]
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Jan
Jan
Indoor air quality (IAQ) is more important than ever, especially as people spend an estimated 90% of their time indoors in offices and commercial spaces. Poorly maintained HVAC and AC duct systems are often the primary source of pollutants, circulating contaminants like mold, VOCs, and bacteria. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 4.3 million […]
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Dec
Dec
Indoor air quality is very important for keeping office workers healthy and productive. Offices often have hidden pollutants, like dust, mold, bacteria, and chemicals, that make the air unhealthy. Studies show that indoor air pollution can be 10 to 100 times worse than outdoor air. It’s important to clean and maintain the air inside offices […]
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May
May
Just like our lungs filter the air we breathe, ventilation systems perform the same vital function for buildings. They’re responsible for bringing in fresh, life-giving air and expelling stale air, pollutants, and toxins.
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May
May
While fresh air invigorates us, many people unknowingly spend a significant amount of time breathing unhealthy air indoors. Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) can be much more concentrated than outdoor air, posing a hidden threat to employee well-being and productivity.
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May
May
Imagine a workplace where employees feel energized, focused, and healthy. This isn’t just a dream; it’s a reality achievable through prioritizing workplace safety services.
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Jul
Jul
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May
May
Since March, everyone is stuck indoors because of India wide lockdown. We all are practicing social distancing to keep ourselves safe and combat the spread of COVID-19. You might think that staying indoors means you’re safe from air pollution, but research shows that this is far from the case. Air pollution can occur indoors, too […]
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May
May
EPSCO India is offering professional sanitization services pan India. We use WHO approved disinfectants, sanitizers, equipment and methods to sanitize the high-touch surfaces, both indoors as well as outdoors. We also perform ATP Testing. WHAT IS ATP TESTING? ATP Testing is the measure of cleanliness when it comes to Sanitization. It provide us information whether […]
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Nov
Nov
As winter approaches, the air begins to settle down, getting denser and converting into fog. In cities, the dense air gets mixed with pollution and becomes smog. As we all know the outdoor air quality eventually affects indoor air quality, its utmost essential to take care of indoor air quality especially when it comes out […]
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Oct
Oct
Dear member, The Breathing Clean initiative was developed to support the Anti-Fraud Task Force with educating homeowners about the benefits of air duct cleaning and the importance of hiring a reputable company to perform the service. Another component of the Breathing Clean mission is to provide you, the NADCA member, with valuable content and […]
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Jun
Jun
In the industrial era that we live in, our urban lifestyle is utterly different from that of rural. In cities and towns most of the people spend 90% of their daily time indoors than outdoors. Most of us are completely unaware that our indoor air could be polluted. As stated, we spend 90% of our […]
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Feb
Feb
IMPROVING INDOOR AIR QUALITY IN BUSINESS PREMISES Indoor air quality (IAQ) at the business premises is the subject of much concern and for good reason. The air quality of the indoor environment can profoundly affect the health, comfort, and productivity of occupants. It’s a well known fact that the indoor air quality may drop by […]
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Nov
Nov
Although every morning, every office begins functioning with zest, eventually after lunch it hits the afternoon slump. Employees feel stuck reading the same line of an email. A contagious yawn spreads over the room. People feel sleepy or feel fatigue. But it’s not just fatigue. It’s something more. Commercial buildings are notorious for trapping CO2 […]
07
Oct
Oct
Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is defined as the quality of air that affects the health and well-being of the building occupants. As per EPA & National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH), indoor pollutant level maybe 10 to 100 times higher than outdoors. The air quality of the indoor environment profoundly affects the health, […]
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Jul
Jul
Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) can be defined as the quality of air as it affects the health and well-being of building occupantsand corporate houses. As per the WHO (World Health Organisation) most of the buildings in industrial belts of India are not healthy and not good at all for inhalation. There are many factors in the […]
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May
May
Our lifestyle is very different in today’s world. Earlier we used to spend a lot of our free time outdoors. But today if we are not in our offices, schools or homes then we are often visiting a shopping mall or a movie theatre or a play area with kids. All these places are indoors, closed […]
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Apr
Apr
Suhel Parker features in the IAQA Spring 2018 global newsletter on stage at the ACREX India 2018 held in Bengaluru early this year seen with IAQA International Ambassador Derrick A. Denis, Brendan Reid and other IAQA members. IAQA International Ambassador Derrick A. Denis reports on his visits to India and Singapore The importance of a healthful […]
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Apr
Apr
Summer is synonymous with vacations, holidays, nani or dadi house and a lot of indoor time with ACs running all day. Unlike winter, summers bring about a different set of potential hazards. The two month long vacations and children being at home leads to a lot of outside activity – this affects our indoor air very […]
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Apr
Apr
Summer time calls for a lot of care and precaution when it comes to our air conditioning units cause our days and nights depend on it. We bring a few suggestions and tips that will keep your AC unit up and running through these hot months. We suggest that for all technical issues you call […]
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Mar
Mar
The festival of Holi is one of the most important ones and is celebrated all through the country with utmost fervour. It marks the beginning of springtime and is a festival of colours. It begins a night prior with Holika Dahan wherein we collect sticks and logs and burn them in a pyre. Today this act […]
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Jan
Jan
High air pollution levels are associated with winters when atmospheric inversion traps pollutants close to the ground and cause smog. Also the onset of winters witnesses us celebrating Diwali that causes even more pollution all over the country. India’s capital is choking under off-the-charts smog, with some parts of the city reporting levels almost five times […]
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Jan
Jan
We’ve all heard the term – Indoor Air Quality. But it seems that strategies for improving IAQ float about in amounts similar to particles and gases we want to remove. Which approaches are good and which should we filter out – there’s always a debate. Hence we asked Allen P Rathey what myths related to IAQ […]
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Dec
Dec
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced with much fanfare the Swachh Bharat Mission on Gandhi Jayanti last October. The aim is to ensure a Clean India in five years. A lot of staged photos were taken across the country of ministers, celebrities and bureaucrats cleaning streets. What was remarkable is that the new PM told the world […]
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Nov
Nov
Air pollution has become one of the biggest environmental health risks ever. Millions of people die each year due to ailments where the cause of death has been linked to constant exposure to polluted air. Of the 6-7 million premature deaths each year due to air pollution, more than 50% of those occur in China and […]
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Oct
Oct
With winter approaching, Delhi’s pollution woes are about to return, environmentalists have warned, calling for reinstating traffic restrictions, curbs on coal-fuelled power plants and construction projects. “We are approaching the big winter problem and pollution is going to pick up rapidly now,” Anumita Roy Chawdhary, Executive Editor of the Centre for Science and Environment or CSE […]
01
Oct
Oct
Air pollution could be responsible for hundreds of car accidents a year, according to the London School of Economics. A study looking a five years of data showed that when levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) rise just one microgramme per cubic metre, the number of collisions rises by two per cent. Although it might seem that […]
