Extracting contaminants is essential to improving air quality in industrial environments, minimizing health risks to employees and increasing productivity. Contaminated air can contain hazardous particles that cause serious illnesses and result in high production losses. An effective extraction system filters these contaminants from the air, ensuring a safe working environment and saving money in the long run by reducing sickness absence.
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Contaminated air in industrial processes poses a serious threat. Hazardous particles generated by welding and other activities can enter the bloodstream and cause serious illnesses such as lung cancer. Humans can only survive without air for a maximum of five minutes, and we breathe 12-18 times per minute. This underscores the importance of clean air.
Underestimated invisible dangers
Air is invisible, odorless and intangible, but it is essential to life. While we make conscious decisions about what we eat, we breathe unconsciously. We often do not think about what we are putting into our bodies. The concentration of pollutants increases greatly, especially in manufacturing processes. Natural filters such as cilia in the respiratory tract can only break down organic substances. However, industrial processes produce inorganic dusts, such as metal dust, that these natural filters cannot handle. These tiny particles are invisible to the eye and are often underestimated, even though they can have serious health consequences.
Limit values and the need for filtration
When a room is ventilated, air is exchanged between the room and the outside. In industrial environments, contaminant levels are often close to the acceptable limit of 50 micrograms per cubic meter. This means that additional contaminants enter the room when it is ventilated. An efficient filtration and extraction system is required to draw in the polluted air and bind the particles in integrated filters. After filtration, only clean air is released back into the room, protecting the health of employees.
Long-term benefits of a clean working environment
Employees are more productive and effective when they are less susceptible to illnesses caused by dusts in manufacturing processes. Health and safety are critical to business success. Today’s high-tech systems require specialized personnel who need a healthy environment to work efficiently. Investing in the health of your employees pays off in the long run.
Economic effects of respiratory diseases
According to the German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), respiratory diseases caused significant production losses in 2022. The average number of days lost per employee was 21.3, resulting in a total of 888.9 million days lost. The resulting economic output loss was estimated at 118 billion euros. *
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