| Industrial hygiene is basically about the anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of environment conditions that may have adverse effects. |
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| Industrial hygiene requires multidisciplinary approach and its classical steps are: |
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- Recognition of possible health hazard in the work area.
- Evaluation of hazards : It is process of assessing exposure and concluding level of risk to the human health
- Prevention and Control of hazards. It is the process of developing and implementing strategies to eliminate or reduce the harmful agents to an acceptable level.
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| The practice of industrial hygiene is concern with 3-kinds of situations: |
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- Initial studies to assess worker’s exposure.
- Follow-Up monitoring.
- Exposure Assessment for epidemiological study.
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ANTICIPATION and RECOGNITION:
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| How will you anticipate and recognize the problems? |
- Observe the workplace
- Investigate complaints workers
- Examine accident and near-miss records.
- Examine sickness records
- Interact with workers about their health and safety problems
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EVALUATION
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| It is aim to determine how much, how long and how often the workers have been exposed to hazardous agent. |
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| It is process a process of quantifying: |
- Concentration of the agents in the environment
- Duration of exposure
- Level of exposure
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| It provides information to: |
- Decide whether intervention is required.
- Design or to test efficiency of control measures.
- Use check-list to help you inspect your workplace.
- Learn the results of inspection done.
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Control Measures
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| Primary goal of industrial hygiene is implementation of appropriate and control measures in the workplace. |
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| There are five major ways of control measures: |
- Elimination
- Substitution
- Engineering control
- Administrative controls
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
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STANDARDS FOLLOW FOR INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE MONITORING:
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- OSHA- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- NIOSH –National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
- ACGIH- American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienist
- The Factories Act, 1947
- The Gujarat Factories Rules, 1963
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QUALITATIVE EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT (QLEA)
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| Evaluation of potential personal exposure to workplace chemicals, physical, radiological, and/or biological agents is based on personal experience and professional judgement |
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| Purpose of Qualitative Exposure Assessment |
- Assess and managing occupational exposures to chemical, physical, radiological, and biochemical agent
- Use of a systematic, repeatable assessment approach involving a knowledgeable team.
- Making best use of resources (people, time & finances). I.e. Target areas or tasks of greater risk for training, planning, & budgeting.
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QUANTITATIVE EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT (QNEA)
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| Chemical Exposure Assessment |
- Workplace / Personal (Dust, fume, solvent, vapour) / Workplace monitoring (GFR 1963,
Form no. 37)
- Sample analysis by AIHA-accredited laboratories / NABL-accredited laboratories.
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AREA / PERSONAL NOISE MONITORING
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- Area Noise Monitoring
- Personal Noise Monitoring
- Area Noise Mapping
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COMPRESSED BREATHING AIR ANALYSIS AS PER OSHA GRADE-D
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| Parameter to be analyzed: |
- Carbon Monoxide
- Water Vapour
- Oil Mist
- Oxygen
- Carbon Dioxide
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WORKPLACE ERGONOMICS ASSESSMENT
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- Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA)
- Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA)
- NIOSH Lifting Methodology
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ILLUMINATION SURVEY (AS PER IS 3646 (PART – I, II) 1992
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- Illumination Survey is conducted to identify bright light, glare, lowlight, or flickering light to avoid potential hazards and evaluate risk to improve employee safety
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VIBRATION MONITORING
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- Hand Arm Vibration
- Full Body Vibration
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INDUSTRIAL VENTILATION SURVEY
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- Effectiveness check for Local Exhaust
- Ventilation / General Ventilation
- Area air movement monitoring
- Air Change per Hours Calculation / Form No.26-A
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HEAT STRESS MONITORING
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- Workload assessments
- Area[WBGT]heat stress Monitoring
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INDOOR AIR QUALITY ASSESSMENT
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| Parameter to be analyzed |
- CO2, CO, NOx, Formaldehyde, Temperature, Humidity, O3, O2, PM1, PM2.5 and PM10
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MICROBIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
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- Total Plate Count
- Total yeast & mould count
- Swabs Testing
- Legionella Bacteria
- Pseudomonas sulfate-reducing bacteria
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| CONTAINMENT VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION ASSESSMENTS: |
- Our industrial hygiene team has gained extensive experience with containment verification and validation assessments;
- Containment performance testing (CPT), Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs), and Site Acceptance Tests (SATs).
- These assessments are usually carried out using nonhazardous surrogate testing materials or a less potent substitute to establish safe handling guidelines.
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| TEAM MEMBERS |
- Industrial Hygienist, Environment Engineer, Chemical Engineer, Chemist and microbiologist
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| INDUSTRIAL SECTOR |
- CHEMICALS
- DRUGS & PHARMACEUTICALS
- ENGINEERING
- GLASS
- PETROCHEMICALS
- PAINTS
- PESTICIDES
- PLASTICS
- DYES- INTERMEDIATES
- FOOD AND BEVERAGES
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