Contemporary people spend most of their indoors. The quality of the air indoors has a direct impact on work performance and efficiency and its effects on human health are starting to gain much attention. Environmental Protection Administration (EPD) announced The Indoor Air Quality Managerial Law on Nov., 23, 2011, and the law went into effect on Nov., 23, 2012.EPD announced “the first batch of places that should comply with The Indoor Air Quality Managerial Law (the Law),” and, at the same time, stipulated the first batch of places that should be regulated and monitored, the items of indoor air pollution, and controlled the scope of indoor space. EPD announced that there were seven public places within the county’s jurisdiction should “tally with the first batch of places the Law announced.”
This project aimed at announcing and preannouncing the places and the types of places within the scope of the Law. Also, we should be responsible for the publicity, seminar, testing, and to check and help guide places to execute affairs in relation to indoor air quality maintaining and managing. We continued to promote the idea of indoor air quality management to public places, facilitate tasks such as “patrolling inspection,” “guidance and improvement,” and “counseling and communication.” By means of applying portable measuring equipment, standardized measuring methods, educating on-site experts and enlarging promotional scope, we summarized the contexts and results as followings:
I. Complete the patrolling inspection in 131 public places
We utilized potable equipment to conduct on-site patrolling inspection for CO2, CO, HCHO, TVOC, O3, PM10, and PM2.5. We also finished real-time data inspection in 131 places, and conducted indoor air condition inspection, in accordance with the inspection method standards announced by EPD, on seven places that were in the first announced category, nine and four places in the second preannounced category, all of above exceeded the standard amount.
This year direct-reading instruments to perform on-site inspection survey work, completed a total of 131 (point 1115 times) public or private premises inspection test. The number of patrols to support the baby center up to a total of 43; followed by kindergarten; nursing home; postpartum care institutions; hot pot barbecue industry; government agencies; libraries; tertiary institutions; sports and fitness establishments; hospitals; railway stations, Shopping malls, museums and cram schools. In the 131 site survey, a total of 45 sites were selected for the CO2 inspection concentration exceeding 1000 ppm. Including for tertiary institutions, sports and fitness places, cram schools, kindergartens, hot pot barbecue industry, baby care center, postpartum care institutions, care homes and other places. In addition to the county for the announcement of the notice of 17 places and 114 counseling to establish maintenance and management programs. Assist the establishment of the site to maintain the management plan and advocate the importance of maintaining management plans, including the basic information and air conditioning and ventilation equipment information.
II. Guidance and Improvement
Places with unsatisfactory air quality patrolling inspection results, places didn’t meet the requirements with the tests conducted with the announced testing methods, places failed the long-term CO2 monitoring and places on the second extension batch list were on the priority list of guidance and improvement. They were demanded to undergo on-site counseling by 15 experts and tracked their improvement. The project conduct technical improvement on-site study in Jubei Habitat Office and Zhudong town nursery and respectively made 3D stimulation models on the before and after conditions. In virtue of the different nature of places, we employed different means to improve the situations, the on-site staff can noticeable feel the change when the ventilation is improved.
III. Analyzing continuous monitoring system and results
According to the analytical data of the project, places are more likely to exceed the standards on summer (from Jul. to Sep.). Places tend to turn on the AC, but do not introduce exterior airflow due to comfort reasons. This, combined with the numbers of staff, might raise the concern of the accumulation of indoor CO2 concentration.
IV. Regulation promotion and coordination conference
It has handled 2 inter-bureaux to coordinate the division of labor. With inter-bureaux division work items, it cooperated with bureaux and departments to conduct joint inspections and inspection and increased indoor air quality project supervision and evaluation (postnatal care institutions and nursing home) of the Health Bureau. Conducting effective investigations on the management of sensitive ethnic groups and indoor air quality that are not under the control of the Authority and assisting the Authority in supervising the premises through supervisory assessment to conduct indoor air quality management and improvement of maintenance work; , advocacy target for the public and private kindergartens executives, advocacy issues of content to life will be described in simple terms, teachers and students to enhance indoor air quality management awareness.
