The purpose of dust monitoring is to meet your legal requirements, by understanding workers’ exposure levels to dust. It also determines if the dust particles are safe or toxic, and whether they are inhalable or respirable in size.
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It is an employer and PCBU’s responsibility to protect workers from exceeding levels of dangerous substances, including toxic dust.
The easiest way to comply, is to prepare a respiratory protection program including a plan to perform dust monitoring, supply of correct respiratory protection equipment (RPE) and Fit testing.
The purpose of monitoring is to understand workers' exposure and determine if dust particles in the air are safe, and/or to verify the levels of dust exposure at the workplace. Dust monitoring typically measures respirable and inhalable dust. It is an employer’s duty by law to protect workers from inhaling dust beyond the exposure limits. You investigate the exposure by.
We come to your site and assist in a risk assessment of the tasks and workers duties. We nominate a group of employees to be hooked up to personal dust monitor pumps, and provide a log of activities performed during the shift.
At Onsite Safety, we aim to provide the services with as little disruption to the workingday as possible. We usually complete dust monitoring to Australian Standards which require at least half the shift to be completed in monitoring. We work with you as a valued client to do a walk through, assess the high risk areas and workers and consult all stakeholders to encourage fully compliance.
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Undertaking dust monitoring is met with experienced personnel, NATA accredited lab results and peer reviewed analysis. You can ensure that all the recommendations provided are that of high quality to meet every client’s requirements.
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