Open Database for International and National Indoor Environmental Quality Guidelines

Details

• Journal Article:
  Indoor Air
• Personal Author:
  Toyinbo, Oluyemi ; Hägerhed, Linda ; Dimitroulopoulou, Sani ; Dudzinska, Marzenna ; Emmerich, Steven ; Hemming, David ; Park, Ju-Hyeong ; Haverinen-Shaughnessy, Ulla
• Corporate Authors:
  International Society of Indoor Air Quality. Scientific Technical Committee 34
• Description:
  The United Nations has mandated clean air as a human right. In addition, many influential international and national organizations have declared the right to a healthy environment. There is growing evidence that projected climate change has the potential to significantly affect public health directly or indirectly. Developing effective mitigation policies for residential and non-residential environments requires a better understanding of how parameters that affect indoor environmental quality (IEQ) (i.e., indoor air quality, ventilation, thermal comfort, noise, and lighting) interact, and how current and emerging trends in building construction, materials, infrastructure design, and use may affect these IEQ parameters and hence our health and wellbeing. In this context, developing IEQ guidelines and setting standards are at the very core of defining and providing clean and healthy indoor environments. Globally, there is no consensus about IEQ standards, regulations, or guidelines. However, national regulations and guidelines from some individual countries and guidelines from professional organizations exist, as well as IEQ guidelines developed by international agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO). While regulations are enforced by the law of a country, guidelines are voluntary. Obtaining and referencing individual countries' existing IEQ regulations or guidelines are useful for policy makers, scientists, and practitioners globally. However, getting access to such information can be challenging, for example, due to language barriers and the lack of an open database. Prior to the 2018 Indoor Air conference, a group of International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ) members discussed the challenges of international IEQ guidelines. They noted that using the existing guidelines in an international context opens many questions about the applicability of the guidelines in different settings, their comparability, and limitations. To help overcome these challenges, an ISIAQ Scientific and Technical Committee (STC34) was initiated in September 2020. The committee aims to continuously monitor, collect, and organize information about IEQ guidelines worldwide, and to develop IEQ recommendations. In 2021, STC34 created an open IEQ database that is freely accessible through our website, https://www.ieqguidelines.org/. Currently, the database is focused on indoor air quality (IAQ) parameters. In 2022, we intend to extend the database to include standards, regulations, and guidelines related to ventilation, comfort, acoustics, and lighting. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution Air Pollution, Indoor Database Environmental Health Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Guidelines; Indoor; Pollutants; Regulations Indoor Environmental Quality; IEQ; Databases; Information Retrieval Systems; Guidelines; Air Pollutants; Regulations; Air Quality; Indoor Environments;
• Source:
  Indoor Air 2022 Apr; 32(4):e13028
• ISSN:
  0905-6947
• Pubmed ID:
  35481936
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11099937
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; Oklahoma ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 6 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  RHD - Respiratory Health Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  6 pdf pages
• Volume:
  32
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065237
• Contact Point Address:
  Ulla Haverinen-Shaughnessy, Indoor Air Program, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
• Email:
  ulla.haverinen-shaughnessy@oulu.fi
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:60a5760b33fe84d6d94d8c6be919ef08e4853ff2f6965eed14d19928acb1c6d4986a530f27a647db990b642bf9765eb214827248f2c83356bda72cc1d8178921
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/156913/cdc_156913_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 96.93 KB ]