How can you protect your health from air pollution?

I use the weather channel app powered by IBM, through this app you will get information about air pollutants in your city. You will get concentration and explanation for pollutants like micro dust PM2.5 , SO2, NO2 and others. In addition of course other weather parameters like temperature, wind and humidity.

While individual actions like reducing exposure and following guidelines are important, we must also advocate for systemic policy level changes. By setting stringent emission standards, promoting clean energy, encouraging sustainable transportation, implementing urban planning measures, raising public awareness, and fostering international collaboration, we can make significant strides in safeguarding our health from the adverse effects of air pollution. It's not just an individual responsibility; it's a collective duty for a healthier and cleaner future. Some key strategies could be: 1. Hyperlocal Air Quality Action Planning 2. Airshed Cooperation 3. Sustainable Energy Transition 4. Community resilience plans for exposure reduction etc.

As monitoring air quality is part of my daily life, what I can say with certainty is, if something is often bad, and you don't feel you have agency in improving it, you stop looking at the number/red flashing light! Sensor and alarm fatigue is a thing.

Gramm are partners for EnvisionSQ developed SmogStop Worlds 1st Approved air quality barrier which deals with traffic pollution where houses, residential homes, schools, hospitals are close to highways and polluting roads. It removes up to 50% traffic pollution by unique aerodynamics and a bespoke photocatalyst. It deals with the issue now while we all wait for modal shift, saving lives which can be helped today.

Under the hierarchy of controls, PPE is the least effective control of risk. And no more so than with air quality, although sometimes it is all that we are left with! 1. Elimination - Does the thing that is producing a poor air quality outcome need to be there? 2. Substitution - Can the thing that is causing harm be substituted with something that causes less harm 3. Engineering Control - Can we introduce something that separates us from that pollutant (ventilation, extraction etc) 4. Administrative control - Can we use the space in a way that causes us less harm? 5. PPE - when else fails!

Poor air quality is the single largest environmental risk most of us will face, the irony is the person who designs and manages our buildings is likely to have a bigger impact on our health over our lifetime than our doctor!

Main Indoor Air Quality in buildings by 1. Monitoring CO2. CO & O2 by sensors 2. Increasing the frequency of stale air replacements 3. Cleaning HVAC ducts 4. Installing HEPA filters and cleaning them frequently

If you're lucky enough to live to 80 years of age you are likely to spend 70 years indoors, 55 years in your own home and 25 years asleep in your bed. On that basis, most of your exposure to outdoor air pollution will occur indoors and most of that in your own home. Your focus should be there. Most of our exposure to pollutants in the home come from our cooking activities and exposure to Particulate matter and VOC's and NO2. Good local exhaust ventilation of cooking activities is likely to have the largest impact on our health than almost anything else.