Industrial Hygienists and Facility Managers: Potentially Productive Partners
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Industrial facilities of all types will require evaluation if OSHA's decades-old PELs are revised to standards that offer more protection to workers. Industrial Hygienists and Facility Managers should consider partnering to solve the problems
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A REASON TO PARTNER
INDUSTRIAL HYGIENISTS +
FACILITY MANAGERS
AIHA Fall Conference #aihafc
WHY ARE INDUSTRIAL HYGIENISTS (IH)AND FACILITY MANAGERS (FM)
POTENTIALLY PRODUCTIVE PARTNERS?
• Both have interdisciplinary practices and expertise that include the built environment and the people who work in it
• Careers of both are affected by regulatory/ certification issues outside their control
• Solving problems = job success
LET’S COMPARE
Industrial Hygienists (IH) • Evaluate work
environment • Design programs to
prevent problems • Tasks influenced by
regulatory requirements for specific occupational situations
Facility Managers (FM) • Evaluate work
environments • Develop policies to
prevent problems • Tasks may be
influenced by certification requirements of a specific industry
, PELS, IH, FM
OSHA: updating decades-old PELs (permissible exposure limits); many occupations will be affected IH: produced many up-to-date PEL recommendations; can design tests to ensure compliance, employee safety FM: ensure facility meets new exposure requirements and provides employee safety
EXAMPLE: IF EXPOSURE LIMITS FOR CHLOROFORM WERE REDUCED
Exposure Guidelines for Chloroform (Trichloromethane // CAS: 67-66-3)
Agency Type of Limit Limit Amount Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL)
50 ppm 240 mg/m3 Ceiling (TWA)
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH)
Threshold Limit Value (TLV)
10 ppm 49 mg/m3 TWA
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Recommended Exposure Limit (REL)
2 ppm 9.78 mg/m3 STEL (60 minutes)
Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health (IDLH)
500 ppm
Sentry Air Blog Chloroform vapor control with carbon filtration
Facilities types that could require evaluation by FM and IH: • Pharmaceutical mfg • Laboratories • Medical buildings • Numerous manufacturing
sites
IH AND FM SOLVE IMPORTANT PROBLEMS
IH • Why we love
Industrial Hygienists • Know the difference
between dilution and source capture
• Develops data that influences business plans
FM • The great solvers:
facility managers and engineered air
• FM solves acid rain problem
• Two true stories from the land of Facilities Management
SENTRY AIR SYSTEMS WISHES YOU A GREAT CONFERENCE IN
WASHINGTON, D.C.
www.sentryair.com
