Tham khảo tài liệu 'air quality part 15', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 16 Assessment of indoor air quality and heat stress exposure in an automotive assembly plant Aziah Daud1 Edimansyah Abdin2 Azwan Aziz1 Lin Naing3 and Rusli Nordin4 1. Division of Occupational Medicine Department of Community Medicine School of Medical Sciences Health Campus Universiti Sains Malaysia Kelantan 16150 Malaysia 2. Correspondence author Institute of Mental Health Buangkok Green Medical Park 10 Buangkok View Singapore 539747 3. Institute of Medicine National University of Brunei Darussalam Jalan Tungku Link Gadong BE 1410 Brunei Darussalam 4. Clinical School Johor Bahru Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences Monash University Johor Bahru Johor 80100 Malaysia 1. Introduction Indoor air quality and heat exposure have become an important occupational health and safety concern in the workplace. The indoor environment is important not only because of the amount of time spent inside buildings but because there are indoor sources of pollution including heating and cooking appliances open fires building and insulation materials furniture fabrics and furnishings glues cleaning products other consumer products and various biological sources such as house dust mites fungi and bacteria. There is also the inflow of polluted outdoor air through windows evaporation of substances from water and in some locations infiltration of radon and other gases into the building from the underlying soil and bedrock Harrison 2002 . Indoor air quality is the result of an intricate series of interactions involving many indoor and outdoor ventilation microbiological toxicological and physical systems Jones 2002 . Exposure to indoor toxicants can potentially lead to a variety of adverse health outcomes Bascom et al. 1995 . The likelihood that an individual will become ill from the presence of a contaminant depends upon factors such as the individual s sensitivity to that contaminant the contaminant concentration the current state of their psychological and physical
