Occupational Safety and Health Monitoring
Occupational Safety and Health Monitoring is carried out to ensure that organization provides safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance.
Air Monitoring
- Chemical Exposure Monitoring
Chemical Exposure Monitoring is conducted to determine employee exposures to airborne chemicals. Employers are required to limit employee workplace chemical exposures to non-hazardous levels and/or within permissible limits.
- Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) Testing – DOSH requirements
Local Exhaust Ventilation Testing is conducted to measure the efficiency of the LEV in extracting the hazardous substances – dusts, fumes, vapours etc. – produced by work processes or activities from the workplace. An efficient and well-maintained LEV will remove hazardous substances from the workplace. This can provide the necessary protection to your employees’ health due to the healthy working environment.
Noise Monitoring
- Personnel Noise Exposure Monitoring
Personnel Noise Exposure Monitoring is conducted to determine employee exposures to the noise level at workplace when they carried out their work activities. The Factories and Machinery (Noise Exposure) Regulations 1989 stated that (1) No employee shall be exposed to noise level exceeding equivalent continuous sound level of 90 dB (A) or exceeding the limits specified in the First Schedule or exceeding the daily noise dose of unity and (2) No employee shall be exposed to noise level exceeding 115 dB (A) at any time.
- Audiometric Test
Audiometric Test monitors the sharpness and acuity of an employee’s hearing over time. Hearing is tested by checking a person’s response to pure tone sounds in frequencies that span the major range of human hearing. Employees identified as being exposed to long-term exposure of noise levels consistently in excess of 85 dBA in the workplace are required to have an initial “baseline” audiogram and then repeat testing on an annual basis. Baseline is the first test given to an employee and this is what future hearing ability is compared to for the purposes of quantifying hearing loss.