Industrial Hygiene Monitoring Services


Industrial Hygiene Monitoring Services

For Compliance with Work Safe BC "Industrial Health and Safety Regulations" is mandatory in the province of BC. Employers need to know if their place of business is in compliance with the regulations and if not how compliance may be achieved.

Workplace monitoring can take the form of preliminary onsite investigations or detailed onsite investigations. Preliminary onsite investigations are conducted by performing a cursory walk through of the workplace to identify chemical, physical, and biological hazards that are present in the workplace. No sampling is conducted during the preliminary walk through. After the hazards are identified a detailed survey is carried out to measure compliance of those stressors that may be in the action level (50% of the ACGIH TLV). The detailed survey is designed to take into account among other things worker expsoure and control measures necessary to reduce occupational hazards.

Sampling conducted during the detailed site investigation may include but is not limited to occupational sampling, area sampling, and bulk sampling.














Services

Antiquity Environmental Consulting Ltd. offers monitoring of workplace hazards including chemical, physical and biological workplace stressors.

 

Workplace Sampling

Industrial hygiene monitoring of workplace contaminants is conducted to determine compliance with Work Safe BC Regulations and Federal Regulations where they apply.

 

Chemical Hazards

The majority of occupational hazards arise from inhaling chemical agents in the form of vapors, gases, dusts, fumes, and mists or by skin contact with these materials.

Respiratory Hazard Monitoring includes: ozone, carbon monoxide, asbestos, wood dust, formaldehyde, hydrogen peroxide, volatile organic compounds, ionizing radiation and other respiratory toxins. Compressed breathing air sample analysis is also available.

 

Physical Hazards

Problems relating to things such as noise, temperature extremes, ionizing radiation, non-ionizing radiation, and pressure extremes are physical stresses.
Occupational monitoring includes: occupational noise exposure, temperature extreme and thermal comfort monitoring, ionizing and nonionizing radiation monitoring.

 

Biological Hazards

Biological hazards are any virus, bacteria, fungus, parasite or any living organism that can cause disease in humans.
Occupational monitoring includes:- workplace exposure to bioaerosols including bacteria, viruses, or fungi, and monitoring of exposure to toxic mold during site remediation.