AB-GM services

Consulting Services normally include an initial telephone consulting session, which you can use to describe your specific problem(s).

In order to be able to narrow down the number of potentially hazardous substances or pollutants and sources of pollutants, an inspection of your working areas, interior areas or your living environment will be necessary. During this on-site inspection, the given situation at the workplace or the condition of your environment and equipment, among other things, will be discussed.

Dependent on the objective agreed, the further procedure will include qualified sampling of materials, dusts or biological deposits, based on the recognized and applicable standards, guidelines and rules. Number and locations of the sampling points will be chosen as agreed with you.

Whether air measurements need to be taken at workplaces will depend on a variety of factors, such as the type of hazardous material, the quantity of material, the activity to be carried out, the assessment of the risk potential, etc. Furthermore, your personal concerns about not feeling well or the presence of odors, mold, moisture damage, suspected presence of asbestos, etc. in your building, house or living environment may be a good reason to have an air measurement procedure performed in order to identify pollutants or biological substances.

Following the sampling/air-measuring activities and properly compliant transport of the samples, the dust, material, contact-plate, adhesive-film, wipe or swab samples and/or the air-sample filter carriers will be examined and analyzed in certified/accredited and specialized laboratories – in conformity with the recognized and applicable standards, guidelines and rules – in order to identify the individual hazardous materials and/or pollutants or biological substances. Such lab tests on materials or room-air samples are suitable for identifying the presence and the level of concentration of hazardous materials and/or pollutants or biological substances.

The measuring and analysis results will be evaluated and assessed based on the knowledge and practical experience of Andreas Stefan Bartsch Gefahrstoffmessungen and based on the legal limit values, the appropriate guideline and orientation values, and/or other scientifically well-founded criteria in accordance with the task objective(s) agreed with you.

Based on the results of the on-site inspection/examination/building examination and, in some cases, based also on the metrological and analytical results, the need for remedial measures and the level of urgency of such measures that may be necessary at your workplace or in your rooms and buildings needs to be clarified and assessed in line with the relevant directives and recommendations

An assessment of the risk potential at workplaces and in commercial buildings has to be provided by the business owner (e.g. according to the German Ordinance on Hazardous Substances, the Ordinance on Biomaterials, the Ordinance on Industrial Safety, etc.).

With the report and/or expertise prepared by Andreas Stefan Bartsch Gefahrstoffmessungen, you will also receive recommendations for initial remedial measures. The preparation of a rehabilitation concept and the performance of such measures need to be carried out by a certified and specialized firm. Andreas Stefan Bartsch Gefahrstoffmessungen will gladly assist you as your consultant during the remediation process, and can carry out the final clearance measurements after the rehabilitation work and/or remedial measures will have been completed.

Depending on the details of the agreed task, the results of the on-site inspections, evaluations, sampling activities and measurements will be compiled and described in the form of a report, expertise or an expert opinion, which will offer the following information: Measuring results and their evaluation. Task objective. Object of the examination. Sampling conditions. Clarification of the relevant causes and assessment of the risk potential. Recommendations. Sampling plan (if necessary). Photo documentation