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# Staffordshire scheme offers businesses the chance to improve workplace air quality
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/staffordshire-scheme-offers-businesses-the-chance-to-improve-workplace-air-quality/
- Published: 2022-06-08T06:04:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-06-08T06:08:00.000Z
- Description: A county-wide scheme is helping to keep local employees safe by improving the air quality in work places.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Business, Health, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 19:11, News

A county-wide scheme is helping to keep local employees safe by improving the air quality in work places.

Staffordshire County Council is offering small businesses the chance to borrow a hand-held carbon dioxide monitor for free to help identify areas within premises where CO2 is high.

It comes after research showed that a room with fresh air reduce the transmission of respiratory illnesses such as Covid-19 and flu by as much as 70%.

Cllr Philip White, Staffordshire County Council’s deputy leader and cabinet member for economy and skills, said:

> “Proper workplace ventilation is an essential way for businesses to protect their business and their workforce by reducing the risk of Covid-19 spreading.  
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> “Ensuring adequate fresh air is a legal obligation, but it’s hard for businesses to know how much ventilation is enough, and exactly where in the building it’s needed.  
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> “Over half of the businesses that have already borrowed a device have found that they have hotspots, such as busy meeting rooms, that show levels of CO2 that would indicate a higher risk.  
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> “But with just two weeks of regular testing, many have found relatively easy ways to mitigate it and keep their staff and business safe.”  
>  
> Cllr Philip White, Staffordshire County Council

Businesses can express an interest to borrow a hand-held monitor for free at [www.staffordshire.gov.uk/CarbonDioxideMonitors](http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/CarbonDioxideMonitors?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk).