Duct Cleaning Protects Against Allergies

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Although employers have a duty of responsibility to their building's occupants under Health and Safety employees will appreciate them for taking care of the air quality, especially if they suffer from allergies.

Who hasn't sympathised with a colleague struggling to work through the annual hay fever season?

Air conditioning in the building may help them immensely but it also helps people who suffer from dust and other allergies and asthma.

But any ducted air system in a building, whether it's for heating or air conditioning, usually involves air being circulated in what's effectively a closed and sealed system, so it needs to be kept in good condition.

Dust particles, bacteria, moulds, excess moisture and fibres can all affect the efficiency of a duct system, especially because part of what it's designed to do is to extract pollutants from the building's environment to keep the air clean.

Maintaining the quality of the air circulating in your building by having a regular schedule of air duct inspection and duct cleaning therefore can help your employees feel valued and they're more likely to perform better.

Mould and mildew like dark, dank places like duct systems, where they release microscopic spores that people inhale. Allergic reactions can be anything from respiratory problems to itchy skin.

Dust is actually an assortment of minute particles of bug fragments, mould spores, bits of plastic and can be a particular menace in the winter, when windows and doors are kept closed.

If people persistently complain of suffering from irritation to the eyes, nose and throat, skin irritation or rashes, headaches, lethargy or irritability and inability to concentrate it's likely that poor air quality in the building is a factor. If the symptoms go away after a person has been away from the building for a few days, you have some evidence that their cause is something in your building.

When you consider that most people spend a large proportion of their waking day in their work environment it makes sense to help them stay alert, awake and able to perform to the best of their ability.

It's not only an issue for offices; places of work where performance is important also include hospitals, clinics, and schools.

Work in all these places sometimes can be stressful because they are all �customer-facing� environments, so it's obviously important that staff can maintain a calm, helpful and professional persona.

In a commercial environment this could have implications for your organisation's profit and performance, in other public buildings it's more about their good name and reputation.

However, there are other reasons why maintaining and regularly cleaning duct systems can affect profitability.

If you have a system that's not performing with maximum efficiency, it could be contributing to your energy costs and also for demonstrating a building's energy efficiency and emissions into the environment.

Having records showing regular maintenance and cleaning to keep duct systems working at peak efficiency are therefore important for demonstrating concern for the environment as well as for keeping your overheads under control.

Investment in regular duct maintenance and cleaning therefore makes sound commercial sense.

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