Chemicals and Dust

TriEx offers annual monitoring and reporting for a huge
range of airborne contaminants including gases, mists,
dusts, fumes and solvents in order to help you eliminate
or control the hazard.

Our monitoring and reporting can help you:

  • benchmark your workplace against Workplace Exposure Standards
  • eliminate or control the hazard
  • withstand a high level of external scrutiny.

A significant part of this is the use of accredited laboratories for analysis of samples wherever possible.

Solvents
A large number of solvents are used for a variety of purposes in the occupational environment. Solvents can cause a number of acute and chronic diseases if exposures are not controlled.

Dusts
Dusts, fumes and mists are generated in many industries. They can act locally at the site of contact (i.e. wood dust irritation to the upper respiratory tract) or systemically (lead dust causing blood disorders). Dusts can also have acute (metal fume fever)  and chronic (silicosis from crystalline silica inhalation) effects.

Gases
Gases can also have acute (i.e. carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide), irritant (ammonia, ozone) and chronic effects (carbon monoxide) on workers exposed to them.

 

What’s involved?

  • Worker exposure to the various contaminants is assessed using specialised sampling equipment
  • The results are compared with the Department of Labour Workplace Exposure Standards.
  • Advice on short and long term control options is included in the report.

 

For further information please email helen.wilson@triex.co.nz or phone 343 2997.