Solvents, coatings, process chemicals, and their byproducts produce exposures that are often invisible and easy to underestimate. If your employees work with or around chemicals, quantifying their exposure is the only way to know whether you're within legal limits and protecting their health.
Request a Consultation →Solvents, coatings, process chemicals, and their byproducts produce exposures that are often invisible and easy to underestimate. If your employees work with or around chemicals, quantifying their exposure is the only way to know whether you're within legal limits and protecting their health.
We identify which chemical constituents need evaluation, perform air sampling for vapors, gases, mists, and particulates, and compare results to OSHA PELs and ACGIH TLVs — then recommend the controls that bring exposures down where needed.
Determine what to sample based on your processes and SDSs.
VOCs, solvents, vapors, mists, and gases.
Results measured against OSHA PELs and ACGIH TLVs.
Ventilation, substitution, and work-practice recommendations.
Chemical exposure is easy to underestimate and hard to judge without data. We determine what actually needs sampling, measure it properly, and evaluate against the most protective applicable limits — so you're protecting workers and not guessing.
SDSs tell you a chemical's hazards, not your workers' actual exposure. Two facilities using the same chemical can have very different exposures depending on process, ventilation, and controls. Only sampling tells you where you stand.
Many chemicals lack an OSHA PEL or have outdated ones. We use ACGIH TLVs and other authoritative limits to evaluate exposure protectively. Where no established limit exists at all, a defensible working OEL can be set using a control-banding approach — assigning the chemical to a hazard band that drives a target exposure range and control strategy.
Yes — we can evaluate whether existing ventilation is adequately controlling exposures and recommend improvements.
Talk to a CIH about chemical and VOC exposure monitoring.