Program Coordinator: Kelli Steward
Phone Number: (937) 225-4898

Indoor Air Quality

Tens of millions of Americans suffer from allergies and respiratory diseases and learning how to control your home's environment can improve comfort and greatly reduce the risk of health complications. There are many sources of indoor air pollution including, excess moisture or water leaks, ill-operating heating appliances, tobacco products, building materials, pets, household cleaning products, and natural sources.

RAPCA's Indoor Air Quality Program offers a variety of resources to help citizens address indoor air quality issues in their home, workplace or school. The program focuses on three areas:

• General Indoor Air Quality
• Radon Awareness
• Asbestos

RAPCA can answer questions to help homeowners identify potential hazards and provide indoor air quality literature. RAPCA can also perform indoor air quality visual inspections at commercial and school locations.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

If you have an indoor air quality issue in your home, you must identify the pollution source and take steps to reduce or eliminate its impact. Such steps could include:

• Fix water leaks
• Clean and replace moldy items
• Test your home for radon gas
• Service gas appliances to ensure proper operation
• Switch to environmentally-friendly household cleaners
• Eliminate indoor smoking
• Inspect wood-burning appliances to ensure proper operation
• Removing shoes at the door to avoid tracking in pesticides and fertilizers
• Limiting pets’ territory in the home
• Reducing humidity in your home
• Washing bed linens in hot water at least once a week to reduce dust mites
• Do not use air cleaners that use ozoneiminating use of an air cleaner, which can introduce ozone, a lung irritant, into the indoor environment

RESOURCES