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Southern Global Safety Services, Inc.
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INDOOR AIR QUALITY EVALUATIONS
The use of chemicals in everyday fabrics and materials has proliferated over the past 30 years, coinciding with closed HVAC systems allowing minimal outside air, which can often result in higher humidity within a building. In some cases, this combination results in chemical vapors and gasses, and the presence of biological agents such as bacteria and fungi being contained within and distributed throughout a building, causing discomfort and even illness to building occupants. This phenomenon is frequently referred to as the "Sick Building" Syndrome.
While indoor air quality is not specifically regulated, it is receiving more emphasis from EPA as witnesses in their publication, "Building Air Quality." The very real effects of the "Sick Building" Syndrome are disrupted business operations, low employee morale, diversions of management time and efforts, and real or threatened actions of law. Southern Global Safety Services, Inc. stands prepared to assist in anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of your indoor air quality problems.
AIRBORNE CONTAMINANTS AND PEL MONITORING
OSHA has established Permissible Exposure Limits ("PELs") for over 600 air contaminants, including such particulate and chemicals as welding fumes, wood dust, nuisance dusts, chlorine dioxide, solvents, ammonia, formaldehyde, and cleaning solvents. Industries affected by these PELs include: dry cleaners, chemical and petrochemical plants, pulp and paper mills, and virtually every other process industry, hospitals, laboratories, fabricators, painting operations, printers, and most other businesses which use chemicals. |
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