ONE LIFE. PROTECT IT.
Real-time area dust monitoring, personal dust monitoring and silica monitoring can provide safety for workers in multiple ways. There isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach for how it’s required to be used, and the benefits can differ depending on who’s using it. No matter what industry, location or workplace it’s being deployed, real-time monitoring can protect your workers if there’s airborne dust at present.
Here’s 5 effective ways of deploying AIR X real-time particulate monitoring to your operations.
Find the root of the problem
The ability to know in real-time when dust exposure limits are breached and to see all the data your real-time dust monitor picks up throughout your working day allows you to find the root of your dust problem. With Audio/Visual alarms and live readings for dust level breaches, you can deduce exactly which processes are causing excess dust levels. Similarly, by viewing data over full shifts and seeing when dust levels are highest, you can deduce what processes were completed at that time, to find the root of your dust problem. By finding the root of your dust problem, effective control measures can then be introduced.
Using real-time alarms
AIR X real-time particulate monitors have a single-user configurable Audio/Visual alarm that can be used to warn users of a specific particulate threshold breaches based on a chosen limit or value. For example, in the UK, the Workplace Exposure Limit for Respirable Crystalline Silica is 0.1 mg/m3 over an 8-hour period. A customisable alarm set on your Trolex AIR XS Silica Monitor will alert you in real-time if the threshold is breached during your working day. This allows you and your workforce to work as normal throughout your day, knowing that you’ll be alerted as soon as you’re set limits are breached.
Across the workplace
AIR X real-time particulate monitoring technology can be deployed as either fixed, area or personal monitoring, so workers in any location of your workplace can monitor for dust in real-time. Deploying a combination of Trolex real-time personal dust monitoring, area dust monitoring and real-time silica monitoring across your workplace operations allows for all areas of the workplace to consistently monitor for excess dust, as well as deduce which areas of the workplace are at higher risk of dust exposure.
Using real-time data
All our AIR X technology has supporting software to view all live and historical data. Breathe Software for AIR XD, BreatheXS for AIR XS and BreatheLITE and BreatheMOBILE for XD1+ allows you to view data as it happens and view up to 10-years’ worth of data, so you can consistently track any changes as they happen over time. By viewing all the data your dust monitor picks up, you can see when dust levels peak and from this deduce the most effective control measures that need to be introduced in line with what process cause the spike and where this was occurring.
Alongside Hierarchy of Controls
The ability to know in real-time when dust exposure limits are breached and to see all the data your AIR X particulate monitor picks up throughout your working day means you can work in-line with the Hierarchy of Controls, to eliminate or substitute the hazard, and introduce control measures for excess dust. By finding the root of your dust problem through real-time dust monitoring, you can not only introduce dust control measures to eliminate or reduce exposure to dust but can also effectively monitor your control measures to see how effective they’re working, and make vital and supported business decisions if further changes are required.