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How Often Should Breathing Air Be Tested?
According to HSE and U.K. laws and regulations, it is important to keep breathing air quality maintained through regular checks and testing of equipment and the compressed air supply. The U.K. Health and Safety guidelines say that breathing air tests should be carried out at intervals of every three months. Moreover, employers must ensure that
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What Are The Types Of Health Assessment?
When a healthcare professional visits you to carry out an assessment, they look for many cues and clues they get with spoken information and physical examination findings. Diagnosing an illness, disorder or condition is no less than solving a puzzle. To effectively assess or determine a diagnosis for a patient, nursing procedures include laboratory studies,
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Why Is ATEX Certification Required?| All You Need To Know About ATEX in 2021
With so much complexity and confusion around ATEX certification, it is easy to get stuck in the formalities while overlooking the fundamentals. But what is an ATEX certificate, you may ask. So in simple terms, ATEX certification is required for all products that contain flammable liquids and gases, mists or vapours, or combustible dust. According
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Hand Arm Vibration (HAVS) – Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Working with heavy and vibrating machinery can lead to life-long damage to hands and arms, if preventive measures are not taken. If you or your employees are working with heavy and vibrating machinery, then it is highly recommended to carry out an Hand Arm Vibration risk assessment and an occupational health assessment. HAVS is an
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What Is A Health And Safety Risk Assessment? A Complete Guide in 2021
Whether you are an employee or an employer, you will be at work a lot of the time and it is important that we take care of our health and safety at the workplace too. It is a duty of an employer to ensure the health and safety of their employees. Each industry poses some
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Why Do We Carry Out Breathing Air Quality Tests?
Breathing air quality tests are typically carried out where the breathing apparatus is connected to a compressed airline, where there are a number of factors that could contaminate this air and potentially compromise the safety of your employee. According to the rules and regulations of HSE and COSHH, all commercial activities that lower the quality
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5 Types of Occupational Health Assessments
An occupational health assessment depends on multiple factors relating to an employee’s job role, tasks and potential hazards that they are exposed to including pre-existing health issues. Employers should ensure they use the findings of their risk assessments to help them determine the type of assessment required. As there are multiple types of occupational health
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How Long Does An Occupational Health Assessment Take
If you have a company that is growing, with great sustainability, then it is important to focus on the health and safety of your employees. It is a co-responsibility of both the employer and employees to take care of employees’ health and wellbeing by examining whether they are suitable for the job and if they
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What Is A Noise Survey and Noise Assessment?
If your working environment is noisy and you can’t hold a conversation with your colleague without shouting to be heard, when you are 2 meters apart, your workplace or business needs to conduct a noise survey and noise assessment. In layman’s terms, noise surveys involve the use of sophisticated sound measuring devices to help determine
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What Are The Grades Of Breathing Air?
In a typical industrial facility, compressed air – also known as Industry’s fourth utility is one of the common facilities used. 70% of all manufacturing activities are inclusive of compressed air with supplying breathing air to personnel using supplied air respiratory equipment as many industrial operations include Hazardous breathing conditions. Industries such as chemical manufacturing,
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