Occupational Hygiene Services

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Occupational Hygiene Surveys & Monitoring is one of the key services OHMS offer. The role of the occupational hygienist is to anticipate, evaluate and control health hazards in the working environment, this can be done effectively by carrying out occupational hygiene surveys, health and safety surveys, and overall workplace surveys.

We constantly work on helping to safeguard employees against stress factors like noise, hazardous chemical substances, lead, asbestos, hazardous biological agents, poor illumination, heat stress, cold stress and poor indoor air quality levels to avoid work-related injury or illness, we collaborate with clients to develop occupational hygiene policies they can rely on.

Asbestos

Asbestos is the generic name for 6 different naturally-occurring fibrous minerals. A ``fibre`` is defined as a particle that is more than 5 micrometres (μm) in length and having a length to width ratio of at least 3:1.

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Ergonomics

To undertake an Ergonomics Risk Assessment in terms of the requirements of the Ergonomics Regulations, 2019, Regulation 6, as framed under the Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1993. This assessment identifies the main biomechanical risks associated with each task, who might be exposed, how they are exposed and how long they are exposed for. This assessment does not include the psychosocial aspects of ergonomics.

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Hazardous Biological Agents (HBA)

Hazardous Biological Agents (HBA’s) surveys are done in line with the provisions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 83 of 1992 (OHSA) and Mine Health and Safety Act 29 of 1996 (MHSA) using validated methods, including wet and dry surface swab to determine the micro-organisms present, the samples are sent to an approved laboratory for analysis.

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Hazardous Chemical Agents (HCA)

HCA or “hazardous chemical agents” is identified as any toxic, harmful, corrosive, irritant or asphyxiant substance, or a mixture of such agents in the workplace. These HCAs will be in the form of dusts, fumes, vapours, mists and gases.

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Illumination

Do you provide sufficient lighting/illumination in your respective work areas, e.g. offices, production facilities, etc.? OHMS Pty Ltd can provide assistance.

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Lead

Lead is a very soft, highly malleable metal that is very resistant to corrosion. In terms of industrial hygiene two categories of lead compounds are considered – firstly, lead and inorganic lead compounds and secondly, organic lead compounds.

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Noise

A noise survey is done to measure the noise levels that employees are exposed to and assess the potential health risk to employees in terms of Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) Regulations, 2003.

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Thermal Stress

A thermal stress risk is done to determine the heat stress levels or cold stress levels existing throughout the workplace and to identify potential health hazards in respect of the Environmental Regulations for Workplaces, Sub-Regulation 2 (Thermal Requirements) framed under the Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1993 (Act No 85 of 1993).

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Ventilation

The assessment technique incorporates a combination of both qualitative and quantitative techniques applied as deemed necessary to profile and characterise contaminated air quality and movement dynamics.

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