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Regulation 10 of the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH Regulations) indicates that, irrespective of the monitoring technique employed, “[t]he monitoring shall take place at regular intervals, and when any change occurs which may affect exposure.”

Therefore, once the process which may result in exposure changes in any way, shape or form, monitoring should be performed. Real-time monitoring technology provides several advantages over traditional gravimetric sampling in that it’s instant (compared to several days for gravimetric) and less fraught with operational constraints, especially when no in-house expertise are available to conduct the traditional exposure monitoring.

Remember the level of exposure to your employees can change, this means the initial assessment can change regularly based on environmental, personnel behaviour or process events.