OSHA issues citations and penalties if businesses violate permissible exposure limits (PEL). PELs are legal limits designed to control employee exposure to hazardous substances in an eight-hour period ...

The United Kingdom and the United States share many similarities but are distinctly different in the way each nation structures and enforces their respective health and safety legislation, monitoring ...

In part one of this series (May 2003), we explained the need for personal sampling, reviewed passive monitors and personal sampling pumps, and examined OSHA's substance-specific standards and their ...

The Apex, a new series of personal air sampling pumps, has been launched by Casella CEL for use by occupational and industrial hygienists, health, safety and environmental monitoring consultants and ...

The Apex2 range of personal dust-sampling pumps is designed to help employers monitor the environment of workers possibly exposed to high levels of respirable crystalline silica (RSC). Workers can be ...

Piezo Motion has introduced a new micro-dosing pump that can replace separate lab devices traditionally used for fluid handling applications. Piezo Motion, a US-based provider of precision motor ...

Personal PM monitoring is considered a better method to estimate actual exposure than stationary monitoring 9, 10, 11 and has been applied to adults and older children. 12 However, personal monitoring ...

The Apex, a news series of personal air sampling pumps, has been launched by Casella Cel for use by occupational and industrial hygienists, health, safety and environmental monitoring consultants and ...

You don't have to be a certified industrial hygienist to do personal air sampling." That's what I've told hundreds of participants in introductory industrial hygiene courses I have taught since 1994.