Occupational safety and health issues surround all of us in the workplace – from industrial settings, to the office place, to construction sites. Western Technologies' professional staff of scientists and industrial hygienists offer quick response and site diagnostics to assess potentially toxic air exposures or other job site hazards. Whether it is an exposure problem associated with an industrial process or product, or poor indoor air quality or hazards in an office, we are able to mobilize the latest field technology to evaluate the job site situation, collect air-monitoring data and recommend actions to manage the risk.

Some representative industrial hygiene
monitoring tasks implemented include:
• Instantaneous grab samples using
   colorimetric detection tubes;
• Airborne measurements using multi-gas
   meters and volatile organic analyzers;
• Long term continuous air samples for various
   contaminants using calibrated air sampling
   vacuum pumps and specific sampling media;
• Bio-aerosol monitoring for airborne mold
   spores, pollens, insect parts and skin
   fragments;
• Impaction sample monitoring for airborne
   fungal and bacterial species;
• Noise monitoring for work-related decibel
   levels and ambient noise sources as a
   measure of compliance with OSHA hearing
   protection requirements;
• Drug laboratory site post-remediation testing;
• Human health risk assessments for property
   development and setting contamination cleanup levels.

Western Technologies possesses the full capabilities to implement management strategies such as industrial hygiene audits; the development of standard work practices; chemical hygiene and safety plans; and chemical storage and handling programs. As part of our consulting services, we prepare and implement specialized training programs focusing on worker right-to-know issues regarding potential chemical exposures and emergency response planning and training. Western Technologies can assist with the development and implementation of record keeping and reporting requirements under the OSHA Hazard Communication standard and other reporting regulations.