Filtermist is good for your health!

Filtermist’s ethos is to protect people by ensuring cleaner, safer, more productive working environments. It often sounds like typical corporate spiel but as we mark World COPD Day 2020 today we thought we should show you that this is not something our marketing team made up, but fact – Filtermist is actually good for your health.

COPD happens when the lungs become inflamed, damaged and narrowed. The main cause is smoking, although the condition can sometimes affect people who have never smoked.

In this document from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) you can see increasing research evidence that COPD can be caused or made worse by exposure to dusts, fumes and gases in the workplace.

COPD has detrimental effects on the quality of life and financial costs because of time off work and medical treatment. The current COVID-19 pandemic is exasperating the issue too, with sufferers of COPD being listed as ‘clinically vulnerable’ and being asked to shield in areas of the UK where cases of Coronavirus are at their highest.

Research findings suggest that for Great Britain:

Around 15% of COPD may be caused or made worse by work

- 4000 COPD deaths every year may be related to work exposures - 40% of COPD patients are below retirement age - A quarter of those below retirement age are unable to work at all

COPD cannot be cured and once it develops, the damage to the lungs is irreversible. However, you can help mitigate symptoms by reducing exposure to dust, fume and gases at work that may be causing the problem.

As a business, we design, manufacture and install machinery that ensures your industrial work place has clean air by effectively removing contaminants such as oil mist, oil smoke, dust, fume and VOCs found in paint for example.According to the HSE report ‘Occupational Lung Disease statistics in Great Britain, 2020’, an estimated 48,000 people who worked in the last 12 months currently have “breathing or lung problems” they regard as cau