Silica Dust Monitoring & Services

Protect your employees from harmful silica dust. Our Dust and Silica Monitoring Services Include:

Conducting personal inhalable and respirable monitoring to assess your employees’ individual or Similar Exposure Groups (SEGs) dust exposure.
Conducting static (fixed) inhalable and respirable monitoring at strategic locations to assess environmental dust levels.
Conducting real time (process specific) measurements of dust concentration using monitoring instruments, to determine dust levels generated by specific processes or movements in the workplace.
Providing guidance about the required OSHA written program and sampling frequency.
Guiding you as to what action is required to reduce or eliminate dust levels to healthy and acceptable levels in your workplace.
Advising on required respiratory protection available and the type most suitable for the occupation and/or environment that you deal with.

Contact OEHS about your Air Monitoring Needs

Why do I need dust and silica monitoring for my company?

Activities such as a mining, rock-drilling, sandblasting, construction, foundry work, stonecutting, drilling, quarrying, building and general construction work, road work and road construction, cement manufacturing, demolition operations, sweeping, or masonry, and tunneling operations all can create an airborne silica exposure hazard.

All employers are under an obligation to comply with the recently revised OHSA standard for Silica. A dusty work environment is known to be linked to chronic respiratory health issues.

There are recommended limits for employee exposure to inhalable and respirable dust and crystalline silica. If it is suspected that employees may be exposed to excessive dust levels, monitoring will confirm the exposure and assist in identifying problem locations and developing control strategies.

What are 2 Types of Silica Dust?

Inhalable Dust – is the fraction of airborne material greater than 10 microns in size, which enters the nose and mouth during breathing, and it is therefore liable to be deposited in the upper the repertory tract.
Respirable Dust – is the fraction of dust particles less than 10 microns in size, which penetrates deep in the lungs where gas exchange takes place.

Satisfied Silica Air Monitoring Clients

With extensive experience in silica air monitoring, OEHS has helped businesses create safer environments by identifying and managing silica exposure levels. Our clients include:

Midwest Perma Column, Edward, Illinois
Harverson Construction, Springfield, Illinois
Dauber Company, Tonica, Illinois
Mid-State Tank, Arthur, Illinois
Standard Aero, Springfield, IL
Master Brand Cabinets, Arthur, Illinois
Solomon Colors, Springfield, Illinois
Keokuk Contractors, Keokuk, Iowa
Flexitech, Bloomington, Illinois

Rutland Products, Jacksonville, Illinois
General Motors Plants, Southeast Michigan
Casting Cleaning, East Peoria, Illinois
Roquette America, Gurnee, Illinois
Stone Creek Products, Arthur, Illinois
Tazewell Machine, Pekin, Illinois
Roquette America, Keokuk, Iowa
Snyder Company, Bloomington, Illinois

SUCCESS STORY

Master Brand Cabinets
An employee of Master Brand Cabinets in Arthur, Illinois, was overexposed to silica dust. Our hygienist developed a sampling strategy and air monitoring survey. We made recommendations to control and eliminate the health hazard.

Silica Dust Monitoring