Occupational Hygiene Within the Food Industry
As well as services we provide for industry monitoring involving the use of heavy machinery or chemical monitoring, the occupational hygiene team has a regular annual client who is based within the food industry.
The client provides products for well known leading fast food franchises, by completing a three stage production within their various premises. The annual monitoring consists of three visits to monitor each of the production processes to check for inhalable dust and bio-aerosols.
The first stage of primary production led us to monitor for bioaersols and inhalable dust which involves the machinery processes of slaughtering, to indicate the levels of which the employees are exposed to throughout the chain of process.
The secondary production covers the creation of various raw poultry products, in which the team monitored for inhalable dust. This monitoring set up was then repeated on the final visit during the further processing stage which involved making the final product ready to be, exported to the fast food chains. For each of these both static and personal monitors were set up to measure the average dust concentration around the area of the machine, and to measure the time weighed dust average concentration for the employees operating the machinery.
As an additional service we have booked in to test for noise levels from their various pieces of machinery. This is monitored through static monitoring around the equipment during the process to measure the decibels for equivalent continuous level (LAeq) and max level.
These services within this fast food industry business, along with the previous site visits can be used to determine if employees are exposed to levels of dust, noise or bio-aerosols above the EH40/2005 rev. 2011 limits and whether extra measures need to be put in place to prevent exposure.
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