Housing health

If necessary, you can get help from the environmental engineers of health control in finding out the health hazard of the apartment. 

If you suspect an indoor air or other problem, you should primarily contact the owner of your apartment and/or property, who is obliged to find out the cause of the problem and correct the problems. Residents have an obligation to inform the owner of the apartment and/or real estate about defects, damages and other conditions that hinder living. In apartment and townhouses, the property manager is usually responsible for practical matters. Both the property owner and the resident can contact the health protection authority regarding housing health issues.

Before submitting an apartment inspection request to environmental health care, the resident and the housing association/owner must do their part to clarify the matter. A health protection authority is only needed when the different parties cannot reach a consensus on the measures necessary to find out the indoor air problem or eliminate it. The goal is that the housing stock companies handle the investigation of indoor air or other problems with experts without the obligations set by the health protection authority.

First, contact the property owner or property manager. If the measures have not been taken or they have not been sufficient, you can contact our environmental engineers by phone or e-mail for possible follow-up measures. If necessary, the matter will be taken up with the health protection authority.

In an apartment inspection, the quality of the indoor air and the condition of the structures are assessed mainly by the senses. Attention is especially paid to the quality of the indoor air, the adequacy of ventilation and visible damage in the structures. The inspection report drawn up from the inspection is delivered to the resident, the owner of the apartment and the property manager, as well as to the potential nuisance.

It should be noted that the choice of the measures to be taken to eliminate the health hazard remains the responsibility of the person responsible for the hazard. However, the measures must be such that the health hazard is eliminated.