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Abstract
During the annual project was conducted, two information sessions about indoor air quality (IAQ) have been held this year. The objects were the public sites secondly announced by the Taiwan EPA (Environmental Protection Administration) and those needed to be re-examined in 2017, includes kindergartens, hypermarkets and restaurants. In the information sessions, the following four important works were discussed: (1) laws related to IAQ and items of inspection and control, (2) key points of the proposal regarding maintenance and management of IAQ in public sites, (3) indoor air pollutants and their hazard to health, and (4) proposals of improvement. Additionally, a cross-office horizontal negotiation meeting was also held on 2016 Dec., discussing responsibilities and obligation of each office and work items of individual division.
Regarding the planning of patrolling and inspection, direct reading instrument-based measurements were conducted in the restricted zones and where people usually stay for 104 public sites within Tainan City. 23 out of 31 firstly announced public sites in Tainan City showed momentary peak values. And 30 out of 39 secondly announced public sites also had momentary peak value, including library, museum, hospital, financial institution, audiovisual singing place, market and fitness places. Besides, for 34 preparatory announcing public sites, including library, museum, movie theater, fitness places, swimming pool, kindergarten, postpartum care institutions, securities company business premises and conference hall, 23 among them showed momentary peak values. The primary items at peak value were carbon dioxide, formaldehyde, TVOC, PM10 and PM2.5. For 12 secondly announced, three firstly announced, and one general public sites, continuous automatically monitoring of carbon dioxide during operation and screening sites with high concentrations for more than three days were also conducted. The results showed that, concentrations of carbon dioxide in 9 public sites were probable higher than the regulated standard.
According to inspecting and measuring of standard approaches for the firstly announced public sites¬-principles for inspecting and measuring regulated by Taiwan EPA, there were 36 public sites and 145 items have been performed in this project. Within this inspections, there was only one public site (Rende branch of Carrefour) where formaldehyde (HCHO) concentration exceeded the regulated standard. In order to increase the understanding of staffs about IAQ related problems and further solutions for these problems, professional field guides were invited to assist seeking any possible pollution sources, and necessary advices for improvements were simultaneously provided on site for 14 public sites with higher measurements while they were patrolled and inspected or with higher monitoring results in this program. For Tainan Municipal An-Nan Hospital, the followings were also performed : (1) 12 days of continuous monitoring of CO2, temperature, and humidity (2) assessment of ventilation and air exchanging rate. Based on the above results, available solutions or improvement advices for IAQ were provided for the workplaces.
The examining and scoring performance concerning IAQ has been achieved by Environmental Protection Bureau of Tainan City Government through the help of our team. Self-scoring was at 100 points in “2016 City Municipal & County Government Cooperating on Promotion of the Management Act governing indoor air quality (IAQ)”. For the 33 firstly announced public sites in Tainan City, all the specialists for maintenance and management of IAQ have been set up via necessary assistance. Maintenance and management project of IAQ and the first version of standard procedures of regular examining have been drawn up. For “2017 City Municipal & County Government Cooperating on Promotion of the Management Act governing indoor air quality (IAQ)”, parts of examining and scoring performance have been achieved in advance, it will help Environmental Protection Bureau of Tainan City Government to get a perfect score without any difficulties.
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