Standards on indoor air measurement open for comment

The objective of AS 16000.1 is to aid the planning of indoor pollution monitoring. AS 16000.34, meanwhile, aims to specify the general strategies for determining the concentration of airborne particles indoors and covers the size range from approximately 1nm to 100µm.

Both standards are adoptions from international standard ISO 16000-1 – Indoor Air, with modifications for Australia.

AS 16000.1 includes information on special characteristics of the indoor environment, the objective of measurement, sampling procedures, time of sampling, sampling duration and frequency, sampling location, and parallel outdoor air measurements. Appendices cover important types of indoor environment and sources of air pollutants, sources of indoor air pollutants, examples of substances and their sources, and guidelines for information to be recorded during indoor air measurement.

AS 16000.34 includes information on the origin, properties and health implications of airborne particles, sources of indoor particulate matter and particle dynamics indoors, measurement methods for airborne particles indoors, general sampling recommendations, measurement strategy for determining airborne particles indoors, uncertainty evaluation, evaluation and reporting of results, documentation, and quality assurance.

Comments are open until May 21 (AS 16000.1) and May 22 (AS 16000.34) through Standards Australia’s Connect platform.

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