Contents

1. Why is indoor air pollution a workplace problem?
2. Where does air pollution at work come from ?
3. Control of air pollution at work – the law, standards and enforcement
4. Workplace ventilation
5. Making invisible pollutants and ventilation visible by monitoring
6. Actions workers can take to clean the air, reduce pollution at work

Air Pollution – all in a day’s work?

Having decent work means being able to breathe clean air at work. The reality for most workers is that the air they are exposed to at work and on the work journey is polluted. There is very little acknowledgement of this in most government and local authority clean air policies. Government strategy is essentially an exercise in kicking the can down the road by delaying vital measures or passing it over to local authorities to sort out.

Greener Manchester Hazards Centre leaflet