Is my workplace "killing me"?

Is my workplace "killing me"?

Michael Largo (Author, "Final Exits") gives expert video advice on: Are employers at a high risk of being killed by their employees?; What are the deadliest occupations?; Which occupations have a lower life-expectancy? and more...

There's a thing called sick building syndrome. This first came out with Legionnaire's disease in the 1970s, where they realized that something could be happening in a building that could affect people's health. For that particular case, they found out there was a certain type of bacterium in the air ducts. So, this still occurs today, if there's a leak or mold in the air ducts from a roof leak or any other malfunction with the building itself, the indoor air environment can be more unhealthy than any outdoor air. Nowadays, the buildings don't have working windows. So years ago, you could open a window and the air would recycle. But now we rely on artificial means of recycling the air, and many times these types of bacteria and parasites that occur in the air system are invisible. They attribute to over 60,000 fatalities a year in the workplace. On a death certificate, you won't see sick building syndrome. You'll have any number of lung ailments that are caused by breathing bad air over and over. Mold and bacteria occur everywhere, but when it's kept in a closed environment, and under a long period of time, spending eight hours a day in a closed building that has what they call "sick air", this greatly increases the chance of dying prematurely.