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Belgium: new workplace air quality law

In Ukraine, air cleanliness is regulated only by the law regarding food safety in accordance with the requirements of the KHASSR.

Our company “visited” inside many ventilation systems that provide air supply both in offices, and in large shopping centers, production restaurants. And we want to state the fact that many owners are not interested in a high-quality and clean air supply. What we saw inside the ventilation systems is more like mountains of garbage, dust, mold, and in restaurants, fat is also added through which air breaks through.

Legally, the purity of air in rooms not related to food is not regulated.

Therefore, if your room is completely dependent on the air supply through the ventilation system, be prepared for the fact that the air you breathe is not clean enough. And perhaps your fatigue, frequent illnesses, allergies, is a consequence of this.

In Belgium, for example, on May 2, 2019. The Royal Decree was adopted, which amends the Code of Welfare at Work regarding indoor air quality, adding a definition of “workspace”, that is, the space in which the workplace is located. It also amends articles relating to ventilation of workplaces.

The general principle is that workers should receive good indoor air quality. Previously, only the criterion “sufficient fresh air” was taken into account. Now the employer is obliged to conduct an analysis of the risk of indoor air quality and take into account various sources of pollution: the presence and physical activity of people; availability of products and materials at the workplace; maintenance, repair and cleaning of the workplace and air quality are provided by infiltration and ventilation, pollution and operation of ventilation systems, air purification and heating.

The employer must take the necessary technical and / or organizational measures to ensure that the CO2 concentration in the workplace is usually less than 900 ppm.

Employers must prepare an action plan for existing buildings. To this should be added step-by-step planning in order to gradually improve the situation with the help of short-, medium- and long-term activities. With new construction after January 1, 2020, the rules must be respected immediately from the date of delivery.

It is possible that in Ukraine at the legislative level norms will also be fixed regarding air cleanliness not only at the workplace, but also in all rooms in which air is supplied by the supply and exhaust ventilation system.

And our company is now ready to ensure the purity of your ventilation system.

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Moving without problems or our empowering experience

Moving services for B2B have their own significant difference from other services that our company provides. Offices, production, warehouses, trading companies, restaurants, etc. do not often move to a new place, unlike, for example, cleaning, which is carried out daily.

And if employees feel the cleaning only by the cleanliness of the room, moving to another place affects the life of the whole company.

Therefore, special requirements are imposed on a moving company, and the first one, of course, is to take on all the difficulties and leave the client only monitoring the process.

Speed ​​and quality of relocation are the main indicators of our company’s activity, and the cost depends on it. But with the supposedly understandable pricing process, you know that there are no two identical moves.

Each move is always calculated individually.

You can’t compare the move of a small office with 4 jobs and a company that occupies two floors of an office building. To compare the relocation of office and any production it’s the same as to compare the transfer of water in a glass and the Gulf Stream, although in both cases it’s the “relocation” of water:)

To form a price based solely on the information received over the phone is ultimately to get into any force majeure that could be.

Therefore, our company always goes for a relocation assessment, which, incidentally, is free.

And even taking into account all the factors that affect the time of moving — the volume of loaded property, the width of the doors, the number of packages needed, etc. — you are not safe from various unplanned situations. Things do not always have a standard size, configuration and shape, which could be transported integrally without dismantling. Even the presence of a freight elevator in the office does not exclude its breakdown on the day of moving.

Recently, there was a very interesting task from one well-known company: to transport an advertising booth from one city to another.

The only information we have are the address and photo.

Our job was to make it so that this construction would be in another city.

The stand with the connection is disassembled and assembled non-standardly, there are a lot of glued elements, but we coped with the task, and the customer was pleased. All the nuances associated with this move we kept for ourselves and added to the treasury of our experience.

We are not afraid of complex and non-standard tasks, for us it is a kind of challenge to our professionalism. Doing them gives us a good experience, which we appreciate a lot.