Indoor Air Pollution and Negative
Effects on Workers
Dilşad AKAL*
Abstract
Workers can not escape to expose indoor air pollutants like gas, dust or vapor during the
daily working period in factories or in offices if the necessary precautions are not taken. The
pollutants are especially volatile organic and inorganic compunds and respirable dust
particles. Firstly probable pollutant concentrations should be measured. In order to decide
which are probable pollutants in a factory; the specific properties of chemicals should be
investigated which are used during the production prosess. For this step the material safety
data sheets of these chemicals are important sources. After determining the probable
pollutants in the working enviroment, the second step should be to determine both the
concentrations of these pollutants in enviroment and the personal exposure levels The
measurements should be taken during the most dense working period. The two measurement
time in a year like summer and winter can help to get interpretierbare results. The last step
after taken the results; should be compare them with national and international limit values
then take cumulative and personal protections.
Keywords: Worker, indoor air, volatile organic and inorganic compound, material safety data
sheet, exposure
JEL Classification: Z, Z0
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Ministry of Labour and Social Security,Assist. Labour Inspector,[email protected]
LabourWorld / Volume: 1 / Issue: 1 / July-September2013 / Page:112-119