Risk Assessment of Indoor Air Quality and Its Association with Subjective Symptoms among Office Workers in Korea.

ABSTRACT: The 2014 Time-Use Survey of Statistics Korea revealed that office workers are increasingly spending more than eight hours at work. This study conducted an exposure assessment for office workers in Korea. Indoor and outdoor air pollutants were measured in offices. A self-administered questionnaire was employed to determine work information, indoor air quality (IAQ) awareness, and subjective symptoms for 328 workers. Indoor air concentrations for measured air pollutants were below IAQ guideline values. The average concentrations of target air pollutants did not show significant differences except for benzene, which had relatively a higher concentration in national industrial complexes. The indoor benzene, ethylbenzene, and acetaldehyde concentrations were higher in offices where workers were

SUBMITTER: Jung D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8874417 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature