Industrial Hygiene Field Sampling & Analysis

What is industrial hygiene?

According to OSHA: “that science and art devoted to the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of those environmental factors or stresses arising in or from the workplace, which may cause sickness, impaired health and well-being, or significant discomfort among workers or among the citizens of the community.” There are various methods for sampling workplace hazards to understand the risk they pose such as passive sampling with sorbent badges, as well as active sampling that involves personal pumps and cassettes. There are also many methods and techniques for analyzing these samples such as chromatography, mass spectrometry, X-ray diffraction, energy dispersive spectroscopy, light microscopy, and electron microscopy. This webinar will review media and field sampling procedures for common built environmental stressors such as organics, silica, respirable dust and metals.

Original Airdate:  Thursday, July 21, 2022
 
Length:  60 minutes 

Presenter: Stanley Massett & Duke Liddle - Eurofins Built Environment Testing