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Industrial hygiene air monitoring plays an important role in the evaluation of potential employee exposure to hazardous materials in the workplace. Monitoring can be personal monitoring to measure an employee's exposure to airborne contaminants for comparison to OSHA PELs or other TLVs developed by safety and health experts and organizations. Monitoring can also be area monitoring where exposure is measured not in terms of a particular employee, but rather as ambient air concentration of a substance. Monitoring provides data for a given area at a given period of time. Area monitoring is a useful technique to help evaluate the need to improve contaminant control procedures.

AQL will work with you to develop a sampling strategy that will meet the objectives of the monitoring study. For example, it may be decided to evaluate a "worst case" condition because it was likely that the longest exposure times to the highest expected concentrations would be less than any applicable exposure limits. If tested concentrations support the theory there is now some assurances that other conditions with shorter exposure times will have lower level exposures. The sampling strategy and study objectives will determine:

WHAT TO SAMPLE FOR

HOW TO SAMPLE

WHERE TO SAMPLE

WHOM TO SAMPLE

WHEN TO SAMPLE

HOW LONG TO SAMPLE

HOW MANY SAMPLES TO TAKE

AQL sampling procedures ensure that the proper sampling media is used for the contaminants of concern and the sample is collected using calibrated equipment operated at the method prescribed flow rate and times.

Air Quality Laboratories is accredited by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) in the chemistry field of testing for breathing air components. This third-party assessment of the lab has determined that AQL has technical competence in chemical testing and meets the requirements of ISO/IEC Guide 25.

Whatever your sampling and testing needs; particulates, metals, or organics - contact AQL for a detailed evaluation and proposal / quotation.

With AQL you are assured a regulatory compliant sampling and testing program.

Air Quality Laboratories, Inc. (AQL), 961 Doral Drive, Bartlett, IL 60103-3030. Tel: 630-830-4018; Fax: 630-830-4185.

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