Ventilation

Ventilation in the workplace

Overview^[1]

Why ventilation is important
Assessing the risk of poor ventilation^[2]

How to assess the risk from poorly ventilated areas in your workplace
How to improve ventilation^[3]

Ways of improving natural and mechanical ventilation at work
Keeping a comfortable temperature^[4]

How to keep temperatures comfortable in ventilated workplaces
Examples of improving ventilation^[5]

Take practical steps to achieve adequate ventilation at work
Using CO2 monitors^[6]

Use CO2 monitors to prioritise poorly ventilated areas

Local exhaust ventilation (LEV) ^[7]

How LEV can help control risks from workplace hazards like dust or welding fume

Overviewhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ventilation/overview.htm
Assessing the risk of poor ventilationhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ventilation/assessing-the-risk-of-poor-ventilation.htm
How to improve ventilationhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ventilation/how-to-improve-ventilation.htm
Keeping a comfortable temperaturehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ventilation/keeping-a-comfortable-temperature.htm
Examples of improving ventilationhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ventilation/examples-of-improving-ventilation.htm
Using CO2 monitorshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/ventilation/using-co2-monitors.htm
Local exhaust ventilation (LEV) https://www.hse.gov.uk/lev/index.htm