A new editorial has just been published by members of the team titled, “Clean indoor air in public buildings: can this be achieved?” in Safety Management; A British Safety Council publication.
Despite decades of effort by many experts and a large body of evidence about the scale of the problem, the topic of indoor air quality (IAQ) in public buildings has attracted little attention beyond readers of professional journals where papers on indoor air pollution and its impacts are published. The Covid-19 pandemic changed this. The call for a paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection and for improving building ventilation systems came from our interdisciplinary group early in the pandemic (Morawska et al. 2021) and we subsequently provided a “blueprint” for a regulatory approach to IAQ
(Morawska et al. 2024).
