Thursday, May 10, 2007

OSHA Compliance Monitoring

Why Monitor your Employees?
Protecting employees from adverse health effects due to chemical, biological, and physical hazards is important to businesses for many reasons:
• Proactive evaluation and prevention of workplace hazards
• Resolving employee concerns about their environments
• Assessing the effectiveness of engineering controls
• Selecting appropriate personal protective equipment
• Investigating occupational disease claims
• Complying with Federal and State regulations

How We Can Help
Air ComplianceTesting is equipped to perform air sampling for nearly all classes of chemical contaminants. We offer both personnel and area air monitoring services, using both active and passive sampling techniques. Real-time monitoring is available formany contaminants. We can performsampling formost organic and inorganic vapors and particulates. We have experience sampling for ozone, trace metals, asbestos, volatile organics, and microbiological contaminants (e.g. mold and various bioaerosols).

Health Hazard Assessments
Air ComplianceTesting provides walk-through surveys and personnel interviews as well as personal and area onsite testing of hazardous environmental conditions (e.g. Carbon Dioxide, temperature, humidity).

IndustrialWorkplace Assessments
Our comprehensive worker exposure monitoring programs includes test method recommendations and equipment specifications including those from:
• The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
• The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• American Society forTesting and Materials (ASTM)
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Other custom methods as necessary.

Results can be compared with established occupational exposure limits such as:
• OSHA 8-hourTimeWeighted Average (TWA) Permissible Exposure Limits (PEL) and Short-term Exposure Limits (STEL),
• American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Values (TLV),
• NIOSH Recommended Exposure Limits (REL), or
• Other employer defined limits.

For more information, go to www.aircomp.com.

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