Services: Industrial Hygiene

Are your employees exposed to health risks caused by toxic or hazardous chemicals, loud noises, insufficient ventilation, or biological agents?

Do you have the expertise and equipment to perform exposure monitoring and compare the results to regulatory limits?

Are you aware of the range of solutions available for reducing a harmful exposure level?

COMPASS offers comprehensive industrial hygiene services to meet the demands of a broad range of work environments. We can help your business maintain a healthful work environment, assure compliance with regulations, and minimize the risk of future illnesses.

What We Can Do

• Develop exposure sampling strategies
• Evaluate on-site industrial hygiene conditions
  • Chemical, dusts, and mycotoxins
  • Noise (sound level monitoring and audio-dosimetry)
  • Heat stress
  • Ventilation system performance
  • Personal protective equipment assessments
  • Confined space hazard assessments
• Develop compliance programs, assist with implementation, and make ongoing inspections and audits
  • Chemical hazard communication
  • Respiratory protection
  • Personal protective equipment
  • Permit-required confined spaces
  • Hearing conservation
  • Heat stress
  • Laboratory safety and chemical hygiene plans
  • Blood-borne pathogens
• Provide employee training on any of the above topics

Quality Standards

COMPASS industrial hygiene professionals perform exposure monitoring evaluations in a high quality manner to meet the most stringent industry standards and to withstand tough regulatory scrutiny.

• We adhere to official OSHA or NIOSH sampling and analytical methods.
• Sample analysis is conducted by an independent AIHA-accredited laboratory.
• Results are compared with recognized occupational exposure limits (OELs) such as the OSHA Permissible Exposure Limits (PELs), the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Values (TLVs), or employer-defined limits.
• Our reports are written to your specification in a style that is easy to understand, with all results fully explained and all relevant documentation included.

Corrective Action

If problem areas are identified during an exposure assessment, we have the expertise to help you select and implement practical risk-prevention or risk-reduction solutions. Depending on your situation, this may include engineering changes, work procedure modifications, employee training, or protective equipment.

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