Category: Indoor Air Quality

Read content related to Indoor Air Quality and how the removal of fume, toxins, and particulate can be an integral part of the integrity of your environment.

Mail Handling Safety: Engineering Controls for Minimizing Hazards

  To minimize safety concerns, mail-handling procedures at private mailrooms should follow safety guidelines and implement engineering controls to minimize staff exposure to pathogens, particulate, and biohazards. On average, about 6,300 mail-borne incidents are reported every year to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) (Newman,… Learn More

5 Air Quality Tips to Improve Work Efficiency

Do you know why it is important to increase the air quality in the workplace… …because when air quality is improved, work efficiency improves. This is mostly due to the decrease in health conditions caused by compromised air. Air quality decreases when levels of contaminants accumulate faster than they can be ventilated or eliminated; and… Learn More

Improving Ventilation and Air Filtration to Help Prevent COVID Transmission in the Workplace

  After two years of working from home, many companies have started searching for ways to get back to work while still protecting employees from COVID. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends utilizing a multi-layered protection approach including masks, social distancing, hand hygiene, vaccination, and improving the building’s ventilation (Ref. 1). Using… Learn More

Understanding Your Indoor Air Quality

Indoor Air Quality _ Vacuum Cleaner

Over the past few years, there has been a growing concern with overall Indoor Air Quality with pollutants being entered into the home and office space more frequently. As research has indicated, people are now spending roughly 90 percent of their time indoors, with a much higher risk of being exposed to health hazards that… Learn More

COVID-19 Air Filtration Solutions for Schools

This year, the start of the school year has a much different climate and routine with schools using varied instructional methods including virtual classrooms, in-person instruction, and a combination of both. In-person instruction can play a vital role in a student’s education, emotional and social development, and mental health support (Ref. 1). Likewise, schools furnish… Learn More

Celebrate Earth Day with Sentry Air Systems

At Sentry Air Systems, Earth Day is important to our mission as we strive to provide solutions for cleaner air in the workplace. Our systems help provide improved workplace environment by creating a safer breathing space, offering ductless systems that filter out contaminates instead of ducting externally, cleanable and reusable filters, and reusing or recycling… Learn More

Compact Solutions for Working from Home

Cities across the United States have been ordering shelter-in-place or stay-at-home orders to try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. These measures have drastically changed the way people work requiring more workers to be able to work from home. Non-essential businesses and factories have been closing but employees still want to work to maintain… Learn More

Respiratory Hazards of Diacetyl and 2,3-pentanedione Exposure in the Coffee Roasting Industry

diacetyl coffee production

During coffee production of both flavored and unflavored coffee, production employees become exposed to dangerous VOCs resulting in irreversible lung damage (Ref. 1). The most hazardous VOCs released from flavorings and naturally from roasting coffee beans are diacetyl and 2,3-pentanedione. Exposure to even small amounts over time or large concentrations over a short period of… Learn More

NIOSH Re-evaluating Inorganic Lead Standard

inorganic lead exposure

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) announced in August 2018 that the agency intends to re-evaluate and possibly update the recommended exposure limit (REL) for inorganic lead (Ref. 1). NIOSH currently recommends the same exposure level for inorganic lead as OSHA, 50 µg/m3, which was set in 1978 and has not been changed… Learn More