The companies LOT-CONSULT and SANSI – leaders in the field of safety and health at work, stand behind the social initiative to raise awareness of the health risks posed by poor air quality. Both companies have a type C supervisory body. The control activities in the work environment examine the physical factors – microclimate, noise, artificial lighting, ventilation installations, and relative humidity.
What is microclimate?
The Department of Health defines microclimate as: “A set of environmental parameters, such as temperature, humidity, and air, that affect the heat exchange between people and a given space. Together with indoor air pollution, these aspects directly affect the quality of the environment in which people live and work, and consequently the well-being of workers. Thermal comfort can be achieved when all these elements are balanced, which is a necessary step in ensuring the physical well-being of the occupants of the space.”
Microclimate refers to the set of indicators of the indoor air environment: temperature, relative humidity, and indoor air velocity. And that these indicators are important for the subjective feeling of comfort. An office microclimate is simply a group of environmental parameters that work together to regulate the heat output of the human body.
According to Article 217 establishing the compliance of the working environment, the work process, the technology used, and the work equipment with the norms and requirements for safe and healthy working conditions is carried out by means of the approaches, methods, and forms for carrying out the risk assessment. In addition, Regulation No. RD-07-2 states that: The need for measurements is determined after consultation with the representatives of the workers and employees under Article 7, paragraph 2 of the Labor Code and with the committee/group on working conditions. Measurements of temperature, humidity and air movement speed at workplaces are carried out at least on two consecutive days and/or one, if significant changes in its parameters are not expected, during the warm and cold periods of the year, respectively.
The “Do you know what you’re breathing?” campaign aims to raise awareness of the health risks posed by poor air quality.
The mission is to stimulate public discussions with the participation of parents, teachers, and experts, as well as to provide the first steps toward solving the problem. The increased levels of carbon dioxide, temperature, and humidity of the air indoors have a significant impact on our health and especially on the children who spend their days in the closed premises of the school. They are part of the most vulnerable groups because they fall victim to chronic respiratory diseases at an early age.
A healthy school environment can successfully improve children’s health and support effective learning, helping them grow into healthy and capable adults.