IAQ Testing Services

Building Safety Month returns in May for its 46th year with the 2026 theme, “Built to Last,” emphasizing the importance of creating and maintaining safe, sustainable, and resilient buildings. The international campaign brings together professionals, organizations, and communities to raise awareness about building safety and the critical role it plays in protecting occupants.

This year’s weekly campaign themes include:

• Week One: Safe Homes, Strong Communities
• Week Two: Voices of the Built Environment
• Week Three: Prepared to Protect
• Week Four: Communities Without Limits

A key component of building safety is ensuring healthy indoor environments. From residential properties to commercial and institutional facilities, indoor environmental quality (IEQ) directly impacts occupant health, productivity, and long-term well-being.

“Optimizing indoor environments and reducing exposure risks are essential to building safety,” said Joe Frasca, Senior Vice President of Marketing at EMSL Analytical, Inc. “Despite advances in construction and maintenance practices, many buildings still contain environmental hazards such as lead, asbestos, volatile organic compounds, and radon. Biological risks like mold, bacteria, viruses, pollen, and other allergens also continue to affect indoor air quality.”

EMSL Analytical’s building science, industrial hygiene, and indoor environmental quality experts help building owners, managers, and consultants identify hazards and implement effective solutions. With laboratories located across North America, EMSL provides comprehensive environmental, material, and infection control laboratory testing services, along with sampling supplies, easy-to-use test kits, inspection tools, air monitoring instruments, personal protective equipment, and other resources designed to support healthier indoor spaces.

To learn more about this or other environmental, health, and safety services, visit www.EMSL.com, call (800)220-3675, or email info@EMSL.com. For access to IEQ test kits, visit www.EMSLTestKits.com.

 

About EMSL Analytical, Inc.

EMSL Analytical is one of the leading testing laboratories with locations throughout the United States and Canada. EMSL is a nationally recognized and locally focused provider specializing in fast laboratory results for mold, bacteria, Legionella, USP <797>, pathogens, asbestos, lead, soot, char & ash from fires, VOCs, odors, radon, formaldehyde, indoor air quality, microbiology, environmental, industrial hygiene, radiological, food, beverage & consumer products, and material testing services for the identification of unknown substances. EMSL services both professionals and the general public. EMSL maintains an extensive list of accreditations from leading organizations as well as state and federal regulating bodies including, but not limited to A2LA, AIHA LAP, LLC. (AIHA EMLAP, AIHA IHLAP, AIHA ELLAP), NVLAP, CDC ELITE, CPSC, CA ELAP, NY ELAP, TX DOH, NJDEP and multiple other state accrediting agencies. Please visit our website at www.EMSL.com for a complete listing of accreditations. In addition, EMSL carries a wide range of Sampling Equipment and Investigative Products for environmental professionals.