Air Quality and Our New Building

At the 10/14/10 Union/Management Team meeting the Union brought to the attention of Management that there have been a number of people with complaints about nausea, headaches and respiratory issues that they believe are related to either the air quality or lighting in the new building. Some of these people have gone home ill or have worked from home because of the situation.

Management wants to make sure that when these incidents are occurring that staff and AD/MD/Supervisors are filling out incident reports and submitting to HR. We were told that by providing this information to HR, a prompt and consistent response from the Department will occur. So, if you have had these type of incidents or experience these types of incidents please make sure to have the paperwork completed. From what I can tell you should be able to find the incident reports on the intranet at Q:\Intranet\DocLinks\Human Resources\Incident Report

As well, Joe Olson checked with the bldg construction foreman about the “flush-out” of the bldg. He said that on August 11, 2011 they turned the HVAC unit on full blast (air only) and left it running 24/7 until we mvd in on 9/3. As the individual floors were occupied, they moved the HVAC from air only to the regular temperature settings w/engaged cooling/heating. Joe is confident that due to the building owner's management of many buildings for state employees that they are very aware of these types of issues.

Please keep your Union Steward aware of any further issues that come up around this issue.