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Evaluation & Control of the
Workplace Environment |
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Asbestos
Consultants to the Environment Limited (ACE) are pleased to
announce a long-anticipated but logical expansion of their
current portfolio of asbestos surveying, analysis, air
monitoring, project management and general asbestos consulting
services into the wider, complementary fields of occupational
hygiene and industrial ergonomics, often collectively referred
to as the workplace environment. |
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Occupational Hygiene
has been described as the
anticipation and identification
of health hazards arising within
the occupational environment and
the evaluation, assessment and
control of the risks to health
arising out of such hazards.
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Ergonomics,
an overlapping field in many
respects to occupational
hygiene, is all about ensuring a
safe working environment by
fitting the job to the physical
and psychological capabilities
and limitations of the person,
rather than the other way around
as is all too often the case,
unfortunately.
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Background and Experience |
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ACE’s newly-established Workplace
Environment division is under the
direction and guidance of an
occupational and environmental
hygienist, with experience ranging
from the control of the often
extreme environmental conditions
encountered within deep-level metalliferous (gold and platinum)
mines, collieries, ore-processing
plants and precious metals
refineries to the evaluation and
maintenance of acceptable indoor air
quality standards within Group head
offices. Whilst studying at the
University of the Witwatersrand in
Johannesburg, he co-authored an
award-winning, post-graduate report
on the ergonomic hazards presented
by underground locomotives. |
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Reports |
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Reports will be written in plain
English and aim to answer the
question(s) raised at the beginning
and satisfy the technical reader
that the work was conducted properly
and appropriate conclusions drawn. A
typical report would be divided into
the following main sections:
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Title page
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Synopsis
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Introduction and background
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Process description
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Methods and measurements
employed
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Summary of results and
discussion
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Conclusions and recommendations
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Appendices
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References
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Capabilities |
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Our new division can call on a
diverse range of existing and
developing professional experience
in assessing, evaluating and
controlling the risks to health
arising out of exposure to a wide
range of workplace health hazards
and ergonomic stress factors
including, but not limited to:
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Chemical exposures, including
airborne hazards (dusts, fumes,
vapours and mists)
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Microbiological hazards such as
fungi, spores and bacteria
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Inhalable and respirable toxic
and nuisance dusts
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Pneumoconiosis causing fibres
and dusts
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Diesel particulate (PM10) and
gas emissions (NOx, SOx and COx)
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Lead-in-air
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Lead-in-paint
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Anthrax in plaster
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Sensitising agents
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Dermatitis causing agents
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Poorly designed or maintained
local exhaust ventilation
systems
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Legionella exposure risk
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Poor water quality
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Inadequate workplace or
workstation design
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Poor positioning or use of
display screen equipment
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Slippery floors
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Substandard illumination
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Exposure to workplace and
environmental noise
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Exposure to extremes of heat or
cold (thermal stress)
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Static muscle stress
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Poor or inadequate manual
handling procedures
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Hand-arm vibration exposure
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Ionising and non-ionising
radiation sources, including
radon and its progenies
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Quality Management |
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It is our stated intention to seek
external accreditation for any of
the above services as and when such
might become available and in any
case should future legislation
require it. Naturally, our clients
can be assured that in the mean
time, our internal quality
management and control procedures
relating to all of the above
services are on par with those of
our UKAS-accredited asbestos
services and are subject to regular
and rigorous internal audit and
review. |
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