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Workplace Safety & Health Company IH consultants are trained to inventory and assess confined spaces of various types and sizes.
Industrial Hygienists may wear Hazmat or other chemical protective clothing when evaluating highly hazardous atmospheres or environments.
An IH consultant uses sound level meters to assess noise levels in industrial environments.
Industrial Hygienists place noise dosimeters on factory employees to monitor employee exposure to noise levels.
Lockout/tagout involves assessing a machine’s operation and identifying all energy sources.
Tagout of electrical switches in a control room warns employees not to start equipment.
An Industrial Hygienist uses an X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) analyzer to determine lead-based paint concentrations on a facility’s exterior.
We do air sampling for airborne contaminants using sorbent tubes.
Industrial Hygienists use a filter cassette equipped with a cyclone to collect respirable dust samples.
As an opening salvo of an initiative to conduct a national dialogue with stakeholders on ways to prevent work-related illness caused by exposure to hazardous substances, OSHA has announced the publication of a Request for Information (RFI) to stakeholders and others requesting recommendations on how the agency might update its permissible exposure limits (PELs) for hundreds of chemicals. PELs are regulatory limits on the amount or concentration of a substance in the air, and are meant to protect workers against the adverse health effects of exposure to hazardous substances. This opening stage is seeking stakeholder input on the management of hazardous chemical exposures in the workplace and strategies for updating PELs, a number of which have exposure limits that date back to the early 1970s.
The RFI was scheduled to be published in the Oct. 10 Federal Register.
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