IAQ Continued.. 60 Minutes Special!

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Riverside & Los Angeles Counties

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What's your IAQ??

It's your Indoor Air Quality!!

The quality of indoor air inside offices, schools, and other workplaces is important not only for workers' comfort but also for their health. Poor indoor air quality (IAQ) has been tied to symptoms like headaches, fatigue, trouble concentrating, and irritation of the eyes, nose, throat and lungs. Also, some specific diseases have been linked to specific air contaminants or indoor environments, like asthma with damp indoor environments. In addition, some exposures, such as asbestos and radon, do not cause immediate symptoms but can lead to cancer after many years.

Many factors affect IAQ. These factors include poor ventilation (lack of outside air), problems controlling temperature, high or low humidity, recent remodeling, and other activities in or near a building that can affect the fresh air coming into the building. Sometimes, specific contaminants like dust from construction or renovation, mold, cleaning supplies, pesticides, or other airborne chemicals (including small amounts of chemicals released as a gas over time) may cause poor IAQ.

The right ventilation and building care can prevent and fix IAQ problems. Although OSHA does not have IAQ standards, it does have standards about ventilation and standards on some of the air contaminants that can be involved in IAQ problems. OSHA responds to questions about standards with letters of interpretation. OSHA's letters of interpretation specifically addressing IAQ issues can be found in Other Resources. The General Duty Clause of the OSH Act (the law that created OSHA) requires employers to provide workers with a safe workplace that does not have any known hazards that cause or are likely to cause death or serious injury. Twenty-five states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands have OSHA-approved State Plans and have adopted their own standards and enforcement policies. For the most part, these States adopt standards that are identical to Federal OSHA. However, some States have adopted different standards applicable to this topic or may have different enforcement policies. The following States have Indoor Air regulations:

• California
• New Jersey
• Washington

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Riverside & Los Angeles Counties

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Remodel--Go Green!

Help your environment while you are helping your house become a home!

Sustainability is meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

"Green" is often used as a synonym for "earth-friendly." To be green is to recognize that nature is a foundation for human life and that the processes of nature set our limits and possibilities.

Building Arts practices green construction:

1)	To Increase the use of renewable resources such as solar, wind and geothermal energy.
2)	So that renewable resources such as timber can be maintained over time.
3)	To reduce reliance on toxic substances that do not readily break down in nature.
4)	To use all resources as efficiently as possible.
5)	To sustain and enhance existing buildings.

Serving Orange, San Bernardino,
Riverside & Los Angeles Counties

Call Us Toll Free
            1-877-838-3727      

10372 Stanford Ave Unit "U"
Garden Grove, CA 92840

Voice             714-590-2800           Fax 714-539-4315