In both the Pre and Post-Pandemic world, ventilation systems in office buildings and warehouse facilities have been an important part of workplace safety. Digital ventilation inspection is here to ensure their safety.
Ventilation systems are crucial to transferring potentially toxic fumes and circulating air for any building. Often, these key pieces of building infrastructure are overlooked when it comes to inspection updates or sometimes inspections at all. This raises many safety issues not only from their proficiency in circulating air but also their structural integrity. Digital ventilation inspection allows inspection personnel to take advantage of international standards such as ISO 16890, and other manuals or guides to keep ventilation systems safe and secure in the workplace.
Air filtration and general ventilation systems often have highly technical specifications and requirements, meaning it is important to understand how they work and how they can be inspected to prevent issues. The general classification system is based upon Particulate Matter Efficiency (ePM). The International Organization for Standards (ISO) outlines test procedures and specifies general requirements for assessing and marking filters in ISO 16890. The standard’s overview of how these systems should be documented is best married with a digital ventilation inspection solution. Digital ventilation inspection can use mobile technology and simple inspection processes to gain insightful and valuable data that is sometimes unattainable through regular pen and paper inspection. By using features such as the device camera and touchscreen to take pictures and annotate, make drawings or scan barcodes/RFID; mobile devices give users a dramatically quicker way to gain data. Inspectors can likewise make use of standards such as ISO 16890 in the inspection checklist, adding specific parts that will demonstrate compliance with these industry guidelines. Adding such regulations and guidelines can also be done as reference material so that the inspector can carry all the information necessary to inspect and also deal with unexpected inspection happenings. This could be an inspection guideline not commonly needed, a particular failsafe which is noted in a manual, or a facility specific setup that has other support information. All these vital pieces of information can be attached to inspection checklists as reference material.
