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Worker safety is of utmost importance for any business owner. This fact becomes even more important when the organization’s employees have to deal with hazardous substances and harsh working conditions on a daily basis. Industrial hygiene monitoring, in such cases, will prove to be your due diligence towards ensuring that your workers aren’t getting unduly exposed to any physical, chemical or biological danger that may prove to be detrimental for their health and well-being.

In most cases, an Industrial Hygienist and/or Occupational Health and Safety personnel will perform qualitative, semi-qualitative and quantitative assessments to monitor the current working conditions and hygiene standards in your industrial facility. Qualitative assessments involve observing the operational processes in a facility to observe and record worker exposure to potential hazards. Semi-qualitative assessments usually follow a hybrid approach where direct readings from instruments are used to build mathematical estimations of hazard exposure and risk assessment.

Quantitative chemical assessments involve a pump that draws air through a collection media and a laboratory analysis of the collection media to determine the average airborne concentration of a particular chemical agent. Any of these three approaches may be used by your health & safety Consultant in Singapore to gauge and assess the actual exposure levels within your facility.

Once these readings and values are measured, the next step is to compare the same with industry accepted permissible exposure limits. These are standards devised in consonance with local authorities to determine how much hazardous exposure for workers can be allowed without causing serious injury to their health and well being.

Facilities/Buildings don’t always protect their occupants from pollution. Just the opposite, the mold, fungi, duct and toxic gases trapped or growing on the inside may well exceed than outdoors. By shielding ourselves from the outdoor environment, we have created an inside environment with a whole new set of problems. To understand this delicate and fragile interrelationship and interdependence between the indoor and the outdoor environment facility owners and managers need to view the building as a habitat and/or an ecosystem.

In case your facility is found above par, your health & safety consultant will suggest corrective measures to bring exposure levels down and below the permissible limit. Systems will also be devised to conduct regular checks for indoor air quality in Singapore so that further issues can be avoided well in time.

That is how this professional service can help you in maintaining the safety and sanctity of your industrial facility.