personal monitoring Articles
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Fixed, Portable or Personal Monitoring for Benzene Detection
Fixed, portable or personal monitoring for benzene detection? Applications for PIDs include:- fixed systems for area or fenceline monitoring of fugitive emissions portable instruments for con ned space entry checks or leak detection & repair personal instruments, to alert a worker to a concentration above the regulatory OEL Fixed systems be benzene ...
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H&S Operational Efficiency: Plant turnaround
Hazardous chemicals that pose a risk to humans are normally safely transported within the process but obviously during plant turnaround this is no longer the case. As lines and reaction vessels are opened they pose a significant risk of over-exposure, without appropriate control measures. Concentrations can be several hundred (or even thousand) times higher than the occupational exposure ...
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South West water maintains a reliable fleet with iNet - Case Study
Challenge Personal gas monitors are required to protect employees from hazardous gases while conducting work across a number of South West Water’s drinking water and waste sites. The company’s gas detector fleet was nearing end of life and the team feared that their instruments were no longer reliable. The team found it difficult to keep up with the maintenance tasks required of ...
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Radiological safety and environmental monitoring aspects of mining and processing of uranium ore at Jaduguda, India
Low–grade uranium ore is mined and processed in India since the early 1970s. To adhere to the regulatory compliance monitoring of external gamma level, radon and long–lived alpha activity of ore dust is carried out in uranium mines. Apart from this, surface contamination is also monitored in radiologically important areas of ore processing plant. Exposure of occupational workers is evaluated ...
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Using PID for Benzene detection
Rather than having to rely on human senses in a workplace setting it is advisable to use an appropriate form of quantitative monitoring; indeed the onus is on the employer to do the risk assessment. Remembering the old adage attributed to Lord Kelvin that you can’t manage what you don’t measure, there are methods published by the Health and Safety Executive in the UK and NIOSH in ...
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Personal VOC monitors improve health and safety regimes
Summary Aimed at the general health and safety market where workers may be exposed to a variety of different and possibly unknown hazardous and toxic compounds is the Ion Science Cub. The principle detection method is the Ion Science patented photoionisation detector (PID) housed in a small, worker friendly unit. Introduction Many chemicals in common use have been identified as extremely ...
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One step, low pH iron and organics removal - Case Study
Review For over seven years, the semiconductor facility performed routine on-site cleans of their reverse osmosis (RO) membranes using RoClean P111 with good results. However, over a six month period in 2015, membrane cleaning frequency increased to once a month and permeate flows could not be sufficiently restored. An Avista application specialist visited the site to personally monitor the ...
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Monitoring personal noise exposure in West end theatres with the doseBadge5 - Case study
When the audience sits in the stalls of a West End theatre they have very little idea of the technology that goes into giving them the ultimate live show experience. Some shows enjoy runs that last for years, others aren’t so lucky, but each night there is a team of front of house staff and stagehands that bring the magic to life. The noise risks of working in a live music venue are well ...
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G200 detects N20 leak in sedation equipment at dental surgery - Case Study
About the customer Dental practice, Dover, England Challenge the customer faced A dental engineer was sent to investigate N2O problems at the dental surgery after complaints from staff about the effects of the gas. Previous passive monitoring in the surgery had indicated a time weighted average (TWA) of N2O at 90ppm, and a suspected leak in a faulty machine. The machine was sent to be ...
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The Role of Gas Detection in Offshore Applications
Off-shore drilling is a highly hazardous process with dangers of complexes equipment, harsh environments, severe weather as well as toxic gases and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) which can be found mixed in with the products being extracted. Toxic gas emissions are a danger in the environments in which offshore applications are found, creating unsafe conditions for personnel. This results in ...
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Health monitoring of persons occupationally exposed to ionising radiation in Bulgaria
This paper describes changes in Bulgarian legislation concerning the health monitoring of occupationally exposed individuals to ensure the radiation safety and protection of radiation workers. The expert view on the implementation of health monitoring programmes to different occupational groups and assessment of health risk, including molecular-epidemiological analyses, is given. Special ...
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Offshore Applications - The Role of Gas Detection
Off-shore drilling is a highly hazardous process with dangers from complex equipment and harsh environments. Severe weather as well as toxic gases, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are all present during the extraction process. Toxic gas emissions are a danger in the environments in which offshore applications are found. They create unsafe conditions for personnel from a poisoning and ...
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Physical dosimetry system in radiation accidents
We experience various types of radiation accidents. When a radiation accident happens, one of the important aspects that we have to consider is the radiation dose to the victims of the accident. To judge the health effects due to radiation exposure, it is necessary to make a dose assessment. There is a variety of dose assessment methods, of two types: biological dosimetry and physical dosimetry. ...
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Application of atmospheric dispersion models to evaluate population exposure to NO2 concentration in Buenos Aires
Chronic or repeated exposure to low concentrations of NO2 may increase the incidence of respiratory infections especially in the most sensitive persons. Air pollution monitoring data obtained in Buenos Aires City reveal that sometimes NO2 Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs) recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) is exceeded. We estimate hourly background concentrations (Ch) of NOx ...
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Workplace Monitoring: Who, What, When, Why, How?
In my previous articles in this series for SHP readers, I have focussed on the need for current attitudes to general health and safety processes to change and emphasised the importance of regular monitoring. The best way to combat those ‘hidden killers’ and protect our workforces is to increase awareness of the benefits of regular monitoring and detection. Employees then need to take ...
By Casella
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Monitor for detecting and assessing exposure to airborne nanoparticles
Abstract An important safety aspect of the workplace environment concerns the severity of its air pollution with nanoparticles (NP; \100 nm) and ultrafine particles (UFP; \300 nm). Depending on their size and chemical nature, exposure to these particles through inhalation can be hazardous because of their intrinsic ability to deposit in the deep lung regions and the possibility to subsequently ...
By Oxility BV
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9 Things Your Respiratory Protection Program Must Include
Osha Respiratory Protection Standard The OSHA Respiratory Protection Standard 29 CFR 1910.134 has many requirements in addition to respirator fit testing. If respirators are worn by any employees, companies must have a written Respiratory Protection Program. The one exception is if the only respirators in use are those voluntarily worn by employees, then a written program is not required. But ...
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Fawley Power Station– Case Study
Project Highlights Asbestos air monitoring associated with asbestos removal and remediation was undertaken on the Fawley Power Station site on a daily basis for a duration of four years on behalf of CAPE Plc. Demolition asbestos survey have also been undertaken of all buildings due to demolished as a consequence of the closure of the plant and the proposed decommissioning and demolition. The ...
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Protecting Lives with Advanced Gas Detector Systems
Every year, countless lives are lost and individuals suffer severe health consequences due to exposure to harmful gases. These invisible threats can be odorless, colorless, and difficult to detect without the proper tools. Fortunately, advancements in technology have led to the development of sophisticated gas detector systems, acting as silent guardians in various environments, safeguarding ...
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Green hotel products
The green Hospitality has come a long way from the normal thatched-roof bungalows and on-staff naturalists. All the hotels new or old has started taking environmental measures in account. In accordance with it few hotels have decorated few rooms using environmentally safe paints and also have used furniture made of salvaged forest-fire wood.But the main question which most of hotelier or ...
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