health friendly air™ at work

Are you an organisation that understands that the relationship between health and the workplace is fundamental to the success of your business?

Maybe you have seen the research that shows that those with “good health status are 20% more productive than those with poor health status” and provide your team with health insurance schemes, filtered water, healthy eating options and wellness initiatives such as blood pressure and cholesterol testing ?

“Reducing lost time of employees and enhancing their performance, by providing environmental conditions which satisfy needs, reducing the adverse effects of exposures to pollutants and promoting health are essential elements in improving productivity”
Tuomainen et al. 2002

You may feel confident that as a top class employer you are making positive choices for your team - proper nutrition, clean water and health promotion. But have you done a health check on the air your team breathe?

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that greater than one building in four has indoor air quality problems and they consider it a fundamental right to breathe healthy indoor air. If you find that your team are complaining about headaches; eye, nose, or throat irritation; dry cough; dry or itchy skin; dizziness and nausea; difficulty in concentrating or fatigue you could be one of these buildings. You won’t be alone in this as typically 20–60% of office occupants suffer from symptoms associated with unhealthy air.

The effect this on your business is staggering ! Recent research has demonstrated that the performance of office work could be increased by 5-10% by improving indoor air quality. Additionally research has shown that for every 10 team members poor indoor air causes an additional 6 sick days per year.

All of this proves that it makes good business sense to include a health check for your workplace air in your corporate Occupational Health plan.

Our new corporate health friendly air™ programme is this wellness plan. As an experienced healthcare testing and certification organisation we bring our medical expertise and our high testing standards to the workplace. Our experts test for levels of the most commonly found office air contaminants and ensure the levels meet the international best practice health friendly air™ certification values.

Once this standard has been achieved the workplace is awarded health friendly air ™ certification. This can then be displayed throughout the office so your team members and visitors appreciate that they are benefiting from breathing top quality indoor air and they have chosen an employer who cares about their wellbeing.

As an organisation you will benefit from improved productivity, demonstrate your conformity to Health and Safety guidelines and help reduce sickness absence levels while improving retention.