Overview
In modern life, people spend more and more of their time indoors - home, office, cars, and airplanes. A lot of us even exercise indoors. Unfortunately, we've rarely thought about indoor air quality (IAQ) and its health effects, until recently. Sick Building Syndrome and Building Related Illness are related to poor indoor air quality and other indoor environmental factors. More and more manufacturers are selling air cleaners to home owners to ease asthma and allergy attacks. Are they effective? What are the IAQ problems and what are the possible solutions? This course will provide answers to these questions.
This course is intended to provide a basic introduction for professionals in the IAQ related professions. The course material is based on the booklet “The Inside Story – A Guide to Indoor Air Quality” published by the EPA. The topics include IAQ pollution sources, pollutant types, their health effects, and how to improve air quality. The course also addresses how to respond when you suspect an indoor air quality problem in your home or office and what you should do when building a new home. The booklet is very informative and provides links to other information sources.
The student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of seventeen (17) questions at the end of the course to obtain PDH credits.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Causes of indoor air pollution
- Identifying indoor air quality problems and measuring pollutant levels
- Strategies for controlling air quality problems, including source control, ventilation improvements and air cleaners
- Major indoor air pollutants, including radon, environmental tobacco smoke, carbon monoxide, pesticides, and asbestos
- Source specific controls for each major indoor air pollutant
- Office indoor air quality problems, including "sick building syndrome"
- Sources of office air pollution, including ventilation systems
Course
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