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Breathing Air Quality Testing

You wouldn’t choose to breathe in toxins and contaminants by choice. So, it’s not fair to cause your employees to do so. With Breathing Air Quality Testing from Fumex, you can ensure that the air your workers breathe is clean and safe, ensuring their ongoing health.

What is Breathing Air Quality Testing?

If your work processes involve the use of introduced air or ventilation systems, for example into a sealed area or into a personal mask, you need to ensure the air is clean.

The air needs to be free of contaminants such as dust, debris, fibres, and poisonous gases. Breathing air quality testing analyses the air being fed to your employees and determines whether it may be damaging to their health.

Workplaces where this is applicable include spray booths, welding and metal fabricators, sawmillers, wood processors, and industrial cleaners. Confined spaces, in particular, should have their breathing air supply tested before and during work, as stipulated in the Confined Spaces Regulations 1997.

Why You Need To Test Air

All hazards within the workplace must be assessed, and appropriately eliminated or reduced to a risk level that is as low as reasonably practicable. This duty is enshrined in law. Therefore, you must ensure that the air that your workers breathe is not hazardous, ensuring it is safe, and does not pose a threat to employee health.

Contaminants that may exist include:

  • Dust and fibres – causing sensitisation, asthma or even cancer
  • Poisonous gases such as Carbon Monoxide and Dioxide
  • Oils and vapours, which may be toxic and irritant
  • Fumes, causing dizziness, irritation and brain damage
  • Pollen and other particles, causing sensitisation and allergic reactions

Improving air quality for your workers leads to many benefits such as:

  1. Increased productivity through reduced fatigue and improved concentration
  2. Improved employee morale
  3. Reduced sickness absence and presenteeism
  4. Reduced legal liability
  5. Greater legal compliance

The Fumex Solution

Our comprehensive air quality testing service is delivered to you on-site, throughout the UK. Our engineers are fully trained to P601 Standard, so you can be confident that they’ll be thorough and identify any contaminants present in the air that your workers breathe.

We use highly sophisticated and sensitive sensing equipment, which tests for:

  • Oxygen Levels
  • Carbon Monoxide and Dioxide levels
  • Oil Mist
  • Water vapour
  • Temperature
  • Air pressure

Each analysis visit is summarised with a service report which describes the work carried out and any contaminants identified. These reports can be retained by the customer in line with the COSHH regulations and are valuable within any employer’s liability hearings.

Our Breathing Air Quality Testing service is available at short notice and anytime throughout the year – so you can always maintain compliance with the law and keep your workers safe.

Ensure Your Workers Safety, Today

Breathing is a basic bodily function, and so the requirement for clean air is crucial. With Air Quality Testing from Fumex, you can ensure that your workers are not put at risk by the systems in place at work, giving you confidence that they will return home safe and healthy every day.

Give us a call to book your breathing air quality testing service today.

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