Internal air quality in automotive vehicles in terms of carbon dioxide concentration: case study on the justice officer activity and possible benefits of technology to health and the environment

Abstract

The indoor air quality of vehicle cabins contains in its physical and chemical characteristics the tendency to a low air renewal due to the continuous use of artificial air conditioning. Thus, carbon dioxide concentration rates tend to be high, which can harm the health of ordinary vehicle occupants. The Justice Officer is the professional of the Judiciary responsible for complying with external procedural demands and acts by moving to the recipients of these orders. Faced with this routine of accentuated use of the car for professional purposes, this category of workers is exposed daily to high levels of internal vehicular pollutants. Based on the above, the general objective of this work is to analyze the quality of the internal air of the vehicular cabin of the Probation Officer, in the exercise of his functions, regarding the concentration of carbon dioxide. The methodology employed highlights the exploratory bias, from a qualitative and quantitative approach, since it focused on bibliographic and documentary apparatus to understand the environmental pollution emitted by cars and the human and environmental risks arising from it, and also obtained results collected from a questionnaire addressed to the Justice Officers assigned to the Court of Justice of Pernambuco, which sought to understand the vehicular routine during the course of professional diligence. The results obtained suggest that the Justice Officers’ exposure to carbon dioxide during his work activities affects the physical health of these servers and could be resolved by complying with electronic warrants.