Occupational Dust Monitoring
Many employees are exposed to a variety of hazardous substances, through their normal working day. These range from chemicals associated with a manufacturing process, to fume and dust. Any of these substances, if not controlled effectively, can have a harmful and lasting effects on health.
The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations 2002 require organisations to identify and monitor hazardous substances. The levels of any harmful substances must be ascertained in order to ensure compliance with occupation exposure limits set by the Health and Safety Executive.
Our hazardous substances team can help your firm meet its legal obligations under COSHH. Our air quality monitoring service samples personal dust exposure is thorough and comprehensive and covers both inhalable and respirable dust particles as required. We will identify your specific requirements as part of a COSHH assessment.
Whether your hazardous airborne substance is dust, fume or vapour. Dragonfly Acoustics can provide a monitoring service to meet your company’s needs and establish if occupational health limits are being exceeded.
For Information on Environmental and Nuisance Dust Monitoring please see our Environmental Dust Page
Associated Documents:
- MDHS 14 -3, General methods for sampling and gravimetric analysis of respirable and inhalable dust (179kb)
- HSE approved methodology for the sampling and analysis of inhalable and respirable dust.
- Dragonfly Datasheet - Occupational Dust Monitoring (390kb)