Dust Monitoring
Protect your workers and ensure your business’ regulatory compliance with our dust monitoring services.
Dust Monitoring Service
Respirable & Inhalable Dust Monitoring
Dust can be a problem in almost every industry and workplace.
Work Health and Safety Regulations (2011) state that “a person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must ensure that no person at the workplace is exposed to a substance or mixture in an airborne concentration that exceeds the exposure standard for the substance or mixture”.
The monitoring of dust levels in your workplace will help determine your workers exposure and your business’ compliance.
If your business activities generate airborne dust you should consider implementing high quality airborne dust monitoring program.
Dust monitoring allows measurement of your workers’ exposure to airborne dust. It will ensure that your business complies with Australian workplace health & safety regulations.
Our Airborne Dust Monitoring Service Includes:
Rigorously trained consultants holding the requisite competencies to undertake your respirable dust sampling & monitoring
Consultants with a thorough understanding of the relevant Australian and industry specific standards by which monitoring must be conducted
We only use fit for purpose equipment, appropriately calibrated, which complies with the requirements of respective legislation
- A commitment to you, our client, to provide the highest levels of service possible
Workplace Dust Monitoring
We’ll make it simple for you to meet the regulatory requirements of your business.
Exposure to harmful levels of airborne dust can lead to a range of diseases such as various types of pneumoconiosis, silicosis and lung cancers. The size, behaviour, toxicity and deposition of a dust particle will determine the disease process.
Ensure the health of your workers, and the compliance of your business by having us conduct your airborne dust monitoring.
Respirable Dust Monitoring
Respirable dust (particles typically <10 µm) are invisible under normal light and will stay airborne long after visible dust particles have settled. The extremely small particles can penetrate deep into areas of the lungs responsible for gas exchange causing a range of diseases.
Inhalable Dust Monitoring
Inhalable dust (particles <100 µm) are visible dusts which enters the upper airways during inhalation. Inhalable dust can cause irritation to the mouth, nose, throat and upper respiratory tract. More serious effects can be seen if the particles contain toxic components such as heavy metals and some types of wood.
RESPIRABLE CRYSTALLINE SILICA (RCS) MONITORING
RCS is particularly harmful when inhaled. This is due to the nature of its crystalline structure which can cause inflammation and scarring of lung tissues. Lung diseases associated with RCS include silicosis, progressive massive fibrosis, COPD and lung cancer.
Why is dust monitoring important?
All airborne dust can be hazardous to your health.
Dust particles can consist of material such as dirt, sand, micro-organisms and minerals which can enter the body via inhalation if the particles are airborne. Inhalation of airborne particles has the potential to cause lung disease.
Lung disease as a result of dust inhalation can take many years to develop and is irreversible.
Still have questions about dust monitoring?
Our team provides dust measurement & monitoring services to Australia’s largest employers. No matter the questions that you have, we’re sure to be able to answer them.
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