Comprehensive Occupational Hygiene & Safety Consulting Firm in California CA
Building an Industrial Hygiene Monitoring Program
Develop a new Industrial Hygiene Program or correct deficiencies in the current program for your organization. Just what does that mean, and where do you begin? The time is now! Plan for how your facility will conduct emergency response industrial hygiene (IH) monitoring. What should you be looking for in a provider of this service? Simply stated, the field of industrial hygiene encompasses agents and conditions that can impact employee health and well being in the work environment. Because of the unique challenges surrounding emergency response Industrial Hygiene monitoring choose a provider that is able to develop written protocols/procedures, to deploy teams and equipment quickly, to provide experienced/knowledgeable personnel, quality support staff, and can adapt to ever changing conditions. The list of potential factors or stressors that can impact health and well being include exposure to chemicals, high noise levels, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, biological organisms, temperature extremes and ergonomic hazards.
Workplace Exposure Assessment (WEA) Process
The two options available to you for identifying needed programs and controls.
Ultimately, the Workplace Exposure Assessment process is used to drive the need for respiratory protection, hearing conservation, ventilation, medical surveillance, personal protective equipment, radiation protection or other Comprehensive occupational hygiene programs. Where programs are needed, a written program is developed that establishes procedurally the process by which the program will be implemented and managed. The end result of the process may be the determination that a program is not needed or can be eliminated. In this case, the organization has data and documentation justifying the lack of a particular program or termination of an ongoing program.