Specialists in Occupational Hygiene
Specialising in occupational hygiene and air quality consulting across New Zealand, AirMatters are committed to ensuring safe and healthy environments for organisations across the nation.
Concerned with putting people at the heart of healthy workplaces, AirMatters specialise in occupational hygiene assessments for noise, vibration and, importantly for us, respiratory protection.
XD1+ deployed throughout operations
So, the opportunity to use XD1+ Personal Dust Monitor alongside their processes and methods was vital for AirMatters, not only to support the work they do but also to gain a better understanding around how effective processes are in relation respiratory and air quality.
Understanding the risk with reliable data
The air quality consultants at AirMatters recently deployed XD1+ units across the team’s processes to gain a better understanding of the dust levels they were exposed to when working on occupational hygiene and air quality consultations, as well as for better data support for their consultations.
“We’ve been using the XD1+ from Trolex for the last year in a range of projects.
It provides significant supplementary information that we could not gather with traditional time-weighted average samples. It has become a vital piece of equipment, and we are confident it will continue to enhance our evaluation of exposure in the workplace.”
Thanks to deploying XD1+, AirMatter’s staff have enhance their knowledge and understanding of dust levels they’re exposed to in the workplace. It’s not only beneficial for knowing what they’re exposed to and further protecting themselves and other workers but it’s helped them to improve and implement effective decision making, such as deploying PPE.
Knowing exactly where the risks are
As AirMatters explain:
“Personal protective equipment (PPE) is at the bottom of the Hierarchy of Controls; however, there are circumstances where PPE might be the only alternative to other
higher-level exposure controls.”
By gaining access to real-time data through XD1+ and supporting BreatheMOBILE, it’s allowed AirMatters to determine if the PPE they were originally using was correct for the various situations their staff were in, whether the PPE as necessary and further, more effective controls are required. For a company exposed to diferent scenarios relating to occuptational health and air quality, it’s important correct PPE was deployed depending on the hazard or risk.
AirMatters continue to see the benefit of real-time personal dust monitoring alongside occupational hygiene and air quality consulting.
“We’re using XD1+ again and again and we’re getting good feedback. It’s such a handy tool, easy to operate, easy to connect with digitally.”
Find out how you can enhance your workplace safety by incorporating real-time personal dust monitoring with XD1+ today.
