Occupational Hygiene

Industrial Compliance Solutions provides comprehensive occupational hygiene services to help organisations identify, assess and control workplace exposures that may affect worker health. Our monitoring and assessment programmes are designed to support compliance with New Zealand Workplace Exposure Standards and wider health and safety obligations.

Our occupational hygienists undertake workplace exposure monitoring for a broad range of physical and chemical hazards, including airborne dust, respirable crystalline silica, welding fume, metals, gases, vapours, solvents, noise and indoor air quality contaminants. Monitoring programmes are tailored to the activities being undertaken, the substances present and the potential exposure pathways within each workplace.

Services can include:

• Inhalable and respirable dust monitoring

• Respirable crystalline silica exposure monitoring

• Welding fume and metal exposure assessments

• Gas and vapour monitoring

• Solvent and chemical exposure monitoring

• Workplace noise surveys and personal noise dosimetry

• Indoor air quality investigations

• Dust and particulate characterisation

• Ventilation and local exhaust ventilation assessments

• Exposure assessments for Similar Exposure Groups (SEGs)

• Evaluation of results against Workplace Exposure Standards

• Development of ongoing occupational hygiene monitoring programmes

• Recommendations for exposure controls and risk reduction

Where required, occupational hygiene monitoring can be integrated with worker health surveillance, including respiratory testing, hearing assessments and other occupational health services. This provides a more complete understanding of workplace risk by linking potential exposure with employee health outcomes.

ICS focuses on providing practical, defensible assessments that help businesses understand where exposures are occurring, whether existing controls are effective, and what further measures may be required to protect workers. Clear reporting and practical recommendations allow monitoring results to be incorporated directly into workplace risk management and health and safety programmes.

For more information or to talk to our team about how we can help you please contact us.