Do I have a dust hazard?
Determining whether you have a dust hazard in your workplace is a critical aspect of ensuring employee safety and regulatory compliance. Signs of a dust hazard may include visible dust accumulation on surfaces, as well as airborne particles, respiratory issues among employees or the presence of specific dust-producing activities.
What risks does dust pose?
Occupational dust poses significant health risks to employees across a variety of industries, ensuring thorough testing and control measures is crucial for workplace safety and regulatory compliance. SERS are committed to providing specialized and comprehensive occupational dust sample testing to identify, assess and mitigate potential hazards associated with dust exposure.
Occupational dust testing, conducted by industry experts like SERS, can help evaluate and remediate the effects that hazardous dust exposure can produce. By addressing dust hazards proactively, you can create a safer work environment, protect employee health and safety whilst also adhering to occupational health and safety regulations effectively.
Different Hazardous Dust Types:
Different environments and activities produce a variety of hazardous dusts, each of these require strict and specific prevention methods. Our team quickly and accurately identifies these hazards whilst providing recommendations for dust control and mitigation.
Silica Dust: Common in construction and mining, Silica dust exposure can lead to serious heal conditions.
Wood and Organic Dust: Particularly common is woodworking and agriculture, organic dust can be a serious concern. Not only are these materials often extremely flammable, but their varying size can lead to inhalation, causing severe respiratory problems, skin and eye irritation, nasal and sinus cancers as the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classifies wood and dust particulates as a class 1 human carcinogen.
Metal Dust: Often encountered in manufacturing and engineering, dusts produced by metal can be a health and fire risk. Short term exposure to these particles can cause Pneumoconiosis (Known as welders’ lung), sever skin and eye irritation, toxicity and heavy metal poisoning as well as affecting renal and neurological systems.
How we can help?
For comprehensive hazardous dust testing in Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Australia, SERS are the partner of choice for thousands of organizations looking to ensure industry regulatory compliance, as well as ensuring the safest work environment possible.
We specialize in a range of solutions tailored to your needs, including occupational dust testing, site and workplace dust analysis as well as ongoing dust exposure assessment. Our robust testing process ensures that any hazards are quickly identified, once identified; our team provides bespoke and personalized remediation plans to suite jobs of any scale.
Our laboratory uses state of the art and industry leading equipment to ensure every test is accurate whilst identifying respirable dust particles, potential air pollutants and potential issues in environmental dust monitoring.
For unparallel industrial and residential level dust hazard identification, trust SERS to safeguard your site and ensure regulatory compliance.