Air Monitoring Services

Medical facilities, industry, and universities use a vast array of chemicals and gases in their daily operations. Many of these chemicals have established exposure levels under OSHA, NIOSH, and ACGIH. The OSHA general duty requires employers to maximize the health and safety of their employees. In many situations where potential chemical exposures exist, air monitoring is the easiest way to document exposure levels and determine ventilation control, work practice, and administrative procedure that can keep their levels as low as possible. ENV, under the direction of their CIH, offers a variety of air monitoring programs to clients which include hospitals (formaldehyde, xylene, EtO, glutaraldehyde, and anesthetic gases) and industry (welding fumes, oil mist, organics). ENV offers exposure documentation and employee comfort through their comprehensive air monitoring programs.

EO Emission Control Devices
A Sterile Processing Department of a hospital may contain one or more ethylene oxide (EO) sterilizers and aerators. They may also have related emission control devices, which reduce associated environmental health risks as defined by the EPA.

Efficiency testing is recommended by manufacturers upon installation of the EO emission control device, and regularly thereafter, so that the levels of EO emitted to the environment are maintained within manufacturer specifications and/or permit limitations.

ENV provides this efficiency testing of EO emission control devices.