CLEAN AIR INTELLIGENCE CENTER
Suffer the children: A years-long pollution study reveals the risk to kids
Posted on: July 31, 2019 | By Mike Booth
It didn’t look like a study in air pollution. It only took a few minutes, year after year after year. Once a year, select students in schools across southern California, were taken out of class, marched down to a gym or empty classroom and were met by a researcher. There, they were asked to blow […]
Fostering a culture of health in the workplace
Posted on: July 17, 2019 | By Mike Booth
In recent years, employers have looked to employee wellness programs as a means of increasing productivity, reducing insurance costs and fostering better employee wellbeing and satisfaction. There’s a direct correlation between employee wellbeing and costs to employers. Worker’s compensation claims and healthcare bills amount to more $60 billion per year in the U.S. So, it […]
How Drake Precision Dental Laboratories solved its dust problem
Posted on: July 8, 2019 | By Mike Booth
Even though Bob Savage was doing the best he could—outfitting employees with masks, installing suction systems near equipment and the like—there was one reoccurring environmental problem at Drake Precision Dental Laboratories. Dust. The dust problem “Dental labs, by their very nature, are dusty environments,” Savage, VP and CFO of the Charlotte, NC laboratory, said. “We […]
Want employee satisfaction in the lab? Try cleaning the air.
Posted on: July 3, 2019 | By Mike Booth
In a paper published at the Global Conference on Business, Economics, Management and Tourism, researchers found a direct correlation between work environments and job satisfaction among employees like dental technicians. The Result Using a survey, researchers tapped the feelings of workers in education, banking and telecommunications and found that satisfaction was tied directly to […]
It’s curtains! For air pollution
Posted on: June 20, 2019 | By Mike Booth
In recent years, all sorts of companies have focused their attention on the environment—and some have intensified efforts to correct the ills of poor air quality due to global air pollution. Now, home furnishing giant IKEA is stepping into the indoor air quality arena in a most unusual way. Introducing GUNRID The company has developed […]