Occupational Hygiene

What Is Occupational Hygiene?
Occupational Hygiene is a science and engineering discipline dedicated to the measure and then implementation of control strategies related to worker risk related to exposure of hazards. It aims to understand risks and promote safe working conditions and practices.
Our Approach
Our Occupational Hygienist can assist you in providing a safe workplace environment and enable you to comply with OH&S legislative requirements and regulations.
We predominantly operate within the biological and chemical hazard categories of biological and chemical, covering noise, inhalable and respirable air pollution (asbestos, gaseous & particulate), electromagnetic radiation, heat stress and hazardous chemical exposure. We implement programs to monitor, quantify and report in terms of compliance with accepted exposure limits.
Typical Occupational Hygiene Program
Why engage Ampcontrol for Occupational Hygiene
We have extensive experience in providing services in a wide range of workplace occupational hygiene areas.
Our Occupational Hygiene Specialist can audit your current situation, carry out risk assessments and recommend a course of action for the recognition, evaluation and control of workplace environment hazards. This also includes hazardous substance site and building audits, hazardous substances registers, and recommendations for risk mitigation controls.
Our senior occupational hygienist has tertiary qualifications in Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, is a member of the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists (AIOH), has NATA accreditation for Asbestos Fiber Monitoring and is a Licensed Asbestos Assessor.
We provide Asbestos Management services for industrial or public sectors including site asbestos audits, site asbestos registers, production and review of site asbestos management plans, third party audit of asbestos removal contractors, and remediated asbestos site clearance certificates.
Our services include:
- Occupational risk assessments
- Site and building hazardous substances audits
- Asbestos site audits and clearances
- Asbestos fibre monitoring (NATA accredited)
- Occupational hygiene monitoring
- Airborne respirable dust
- Airborne inspirable dust
- Occupational noise
- Hazardous chemicals assessment
- Gas and vapour exposure
- Indoor air quality investigations
- Occupational vibration assessment
- Occupational lighting assessment
- Building audits
- Synthetic mineral fibre monitoring
- Heat stress assessments
- Ventilation and fume collection audits
- Hygiene audit