Asbestos Testing & Monitoring Programmes can be
provided to meet client’s specifications and provide
project support, including air testing, material testing,
advice & consultancy.
These capabilities allow us to act as a natural extension of a
client’s own quality control department. Anchem can also carry
out specialist investigative consultancy work for individual projects.
Anchem has undertaken a wide variety of occupational hygiene monitoring and assessments for over 25 years. This has enabled the division to gain respect and significant experience within the industrial and private sector.
Occupational Hygiene
Airborne dust – inhalable and respirable fractions, quartz, cristobalite and airborne particulates derived from grinding, drilling, cutting etc.
Lead in air for compliance with the Control of Lead at Work Regulations
Airborne species for comparison to HSE publication – EH40 Workplace Exposure Limits (WEL) for determinands such as zinc, cadmium, chromium, volatiles from paint spraying operations and isocyanates
Noise Assessments – to include octave band analysis for hearing protection suitability, personal exposures for compliance with Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005
Vibration exposure assessments
Weld fume assessments to include elemental analyses & ozone
Rubber fume, wood dust & oil mist
Machine Made Mineral Fibres (MMMF), phase contrast microscopy & gravimetric determinations
COSHH assessments - from workplace atmosphere sampling to full impact reports
“Sick Building Syndrome” investigations to include temperature and humidity profiles
Methodologies include MDHS, NIOSH & OSHA etc.
Degradation products and fumes from polymers and curing oven systems
Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 2002 – complete assessments of small or large scale installations.