AIR QUALITY CONSULTING BENEFITS FROM PERSONAL DUST MONITORING
OVERVIEW
Customer / End User
AirMatters
Application
Air Quality testing
Industry
Occupational Hygiene
Country
New Zealand
Product(s) used
TX8061 XD1+
Challenge
AirMatters, specialists in occupational hygiene and respiratory protection, used the XD1+ Personal Dust Monitor to support workplace health assessments involving noise, vibration and air quality. The aim was to provide accurate, reliable data, helping them evaluate the effectiveness of existing respiratory protection processes and gain deeper insight into workplace air quality performance.
Outcome
Using XD1+ and BreatheMOBILE, AirMatters improved understanding of workplace dust exposure and strengthened decision-making around respiratory protection. Real-time monitoring helped assess existing PPE across different environments, while identifying where additional controls were needed to better protect staff and manage occupational health and air quality risks.
Company & Application
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.
Working in industrial and hazardous environments, AirMatters supply services such as Occupational Hygiene and Health Risk Assessments to provide peace of mind and valuable information on health risks to workplaces.
The Challenge
Concerned with putting people at the heart of healthy workplaces, AirMatters specialise in occupational hygiene assessments for noise, vibration and, importantly to us, respiratory protection, requiring bespoke, accurate and reliable monitoring equipment.
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.
The XD1+ Plan
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.
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.
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.”
The XD1+ Solution
Thanks to deploying XD1+, AirMatters’ staff have enhanced their knowledge and understanding of dust levels in various workplaces. It’s beneficial for knowing what they’re exposed to and further protecting themselves and other workers, and it’s helped them to improve and implement effective decision making, such as deploying PPE.
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 different scenarios relating to occupational health and air quality, it’s important correct PPE was deployed depending on the hazard or risk.
What this means moving forward
AirMatters continue to see the benefit of real-time personal dust monitoring alongside occupational hygiene and air quality consulting.
Find out how you can enhance your workplace safety by incorporating real-time personal dust monitoring with XD1+ today.
