Indoor Air Quality
YOU SPEND 80% OF YOUR TIME
Indoors
However, the air can be 8 to 10 times more polluted than outside.
This invisible pollution, which is just as harmful for adults as for children, comes from everything around us: furniture, cleaning or kitchen products, paints, dust, microbes and virus.
The 3 sources of
indoor
pollution
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Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) or harmful gases such as Formaldehyde and Benzene.
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Fine particles from 0.1 to 10 microns such as pollen, combustion, animal hair, household products.
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Organic particles such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, molds and spores.
Effects in your
Workspace
The inconveniences related to indoor air quality are numerous :
- Spread of bacteria and viruses among children.
- Bad smells, asthma, allergies, eye and throat irritations.
- And also, headaches, fatigue, nausea and hyperactivity.
