Indoor Environmental Quality Committee 

Mission

The mission of the committee is to provide a forum for exchanging ideas and information about indoor environmental quality and to participate in the development and analysis of related technological and regulatory issues.

Goals and Objectives

Goal: Assemble, evaluate, and disseminate to occupational and environmental health professionals information relevant to environmental quality in occupied indoor locations, including nonoccupational uses.

Objective #1: Discuss and act upon indoor air quality issues.

Strategies:

• Designate specific members to track and report on identified issues.
• Respond to AIHA Board requests to address specific issues.
• Meet at the AIHce and at other appropriate times.
• Solicit papers; organize sessions; and provide session arrangers, chairs, and monitors for the AIHce.
• Prepare guidelines for publication on limits for chemical and physical agents that will provide individuals occupying the buildings freedom from distracting odors, discomfort, and health effects.
• Identify, evaluate, and comment on monitoring techniques for the major agents of concern.
• Identify building, and ventilation system designs that cause unacceptable environments and designs that can be used to correct problems and protect individuals.

Objective #2: Provide education and training on indoor air quality.

Strategy: Develop new PDCs and keep existing PDCs up to date.

Goal: Actively participate in identifying and responding to indoor air quality issues.

Objective #3: Identify, evaluate, and comment on proposed legislation, regulations, and standards affecting indoor air quality.

Strategies:

• Monitor and report on relevant activities by rule-making organizations.
• Participate in the development of standards by organizations such as the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and NIOSH.
• Develop and recommend positions to the AIHA Board.