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ABS Environmental Group is uniquely suited to tackle challenging
industrial hygiene problems and provide
successful, cost-effective solutions. Our team
is comprised of highly qualified
Certified Industrial Hygienists conducting field
work, data interpretation, report drafting, and
project review. This commitment to occupational
health allows ABS Environmental Group to provide
exceptional service in the area of industrial
hygiene.
Industrial hygiene is an "art
and science" involving the anticipation,
recognition, evaluation, and control of
occupational and environmental health hazards.
The field of industrial hygiene is broad and
encompasses a variety of potential hazards
including chemical, physical (such as noise,
ergonomics, and safety), radiological, and
biological hazards. Some of our most requested
services by employers include the following:
- Hazardous Chemical Air
Monitoring - Evaluation of a task or a
series of tasks (i.e., a process) to
determine chemical exposures to workers and
adjacent office personnel via inhalation.
Results of air monitoring are compared to
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) standards, American
Conference of Governmental Industrial
Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Values
(TLV’s), and/or National Institute of
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Recommended Exposure Limits (REL’s).
- OSHA Compliance Air
Monitoring - Air monitoring for a
variety of OSHA-regulated chemicals such as
methylene chloride, lead, benzene, asbestos,
and formaldehyde to meet the stringent OSHA
standards and chemical specific sampling
requirements for these chemicals.
- Process-Based Analysis
- Review of workplace processes to identify
potential hazards, prioritize industrial
hygiene evaluation requirements, complete
evaluation of the processes, and control
hazards. Process and task-based evaluation
allows the employer to group exposures
ensuring that personnel completing the task
are evaluated and monitored for
health-related risks.
- Personal Protective
Equipment Selection - Based on a
process analysis and evaluation of potential
hazards, HEG can provide recommendations for
personal protective equipment (PPE). PPE
recommendations may include respirator
selection, protective garment material
selection, glove selection, and eye
protection.
- Ventilation Design and
Evaluation - ABS Environmental Group is
experienced in the evaluation of existing
ventilation ductwork design to control
workplace exposures at the point of
contaminant generation. In-house equipment
allows HEG to provide measurements at the
time of evaluation to document the
effectiveness of the existing ventilation
design. Assistance can also be provided to
improve on an existing design, review
mechanical drawings for future design, or
assist in selecting a new ventilation system
that will control the hazardous contaminant.
- Noise Evaluation -
ABS Environmental Group has in-house equipment
to evaluate point sources of noise and
estimate full work shift exposures to noise.
Noise frequency evaluation and assistance in
the control of stationary sources is also
available.
- Ergonomics Evaluation
- ABS Environmental Group is adept at the
evaluation of computer workstations and
industrial processes to identify
cost-effective, easy adjustments to
equipment in order to "fit" the job to the
worker. Many of these evaluations are
necessitated by fatigue complaints,
repetitive motion injuries, and drops in
productivity. Large-scale redesign and
selection and critical review of
ergonomically correct devices is also
available through HEG.
- Training - ABS
Environmental Group can
provide training in an array of
occupational, safety, and health issues
including but not limited to hazard
communication, respiratory protection, wear
and use of personal protective equipment,
biological hazards, indoor air quality,
radiological exposure and control, hazardous
noise, among many others. Our company can
also develop training modules to keep your
employees abreast of new technologies and
current best practices for a variety of
health-related issues.
- Health and Safety
Program Development - If you are just
starting out and need assistance in
developing a culture of safety and health in
your workplace or industry, ABS
Environmental Group can assist you in this endeavor.
Development of written plans, estimating
costs of running an industrial hygiene
program, and assistance on getting started
is available through our team of experts.
We look forward to
assisting you with your journey in attaining a
safety and health culture at your workplace or
in your field. Please contact our office at
502-212-9488 for more information on a specific
program area or with general questions about
industrial hygiene.
Page Links:
www.ashrae.org
www.osha.gov
www.epa.gov
www.acgih.org
www.aiha.org
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