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The UK Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) and Improving air quality

February 2018

At the 8 February 2018 meeting of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) National Occupational Safety and Health Committee (NOSHC) the Head of Policy of The UK Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) Tony Lewis gave a presentation on improving air quality which is essential to everyone’s health wherever they live in the world.

CIEH believes that the following need to be achieved:

Improving Air quality to become a priority for UK
Recognition that air quality and climate change are inextricably linked AND external AQ heavily influences internal AQ
A new Clean Air Act
Address poor indoor air quality
A proper air quality strategy from DEFRA!
Effective strategies to address the health and wider societal effects of poor air quality
Public health, environmental health and occupational health teams should be working together to provide advice and guidance
- Tackling poor air quality should be a priority for local authorities
- New guidance for the Planning Inspectorate is urgently needed
- A national transport strategy and infrastructure that seeks to reduce air pollution
- A modal shift towards zero emission vehicles
- Provision of ultra-low NOx emission boilers in all new developments
- National campaigns and advertising to encourage sustainable and active transport

View the full presentation: Air Quality

See also the April 2017 CIEH Air Quality Advisory Panel Policy Statement on Air Quality

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