~Industrial Hygiene Services~

With 20 years experience in general industrial hygiene, we provide a wide variety of services including traditional health and safety audits, worker exposure monitoring, confined space assessments, hazardous waste site safety plan development, noise measurements and exposure assessments, radon assessments, and a variety of training.

We assist businesses in all aspects of worker health and safety management from developing basic health and safety and accident prevention programs to performing complete site health and safety audits.  In each case, the services provided are customized to address specific concerns or to comply with specific regulations.

One of the major applications for industrial hygiene is the documentation of worker exposure to various chemicals in the work place as required by OSHA.  We design air- monitoring programs and collected air samples in a wide variety of work settings to address specific chemical exposures.  These sampling programs are designed to collect as much data as possible while making best use of available budgets.  Our experience allows us to tailor each air sample collection project to the specific job or site, which in turn, provides our clients with solid, objective data suitable for OSHA compliance.

Our personnel are experienced in the use of most types of industrial hygiene equipment including sample pumps and calibrators, air velocity measurement instruments, several types of direct-reading vapor monitors and noise meters.  During the collection of samples documenting worker exposures our personnel utilize methods developed and approved by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).  Samples are analyzed at accredited laboratories utilizing NIOSH analytical methods.

An additional service which Northern personnel provide is customized training to address specific issues.  In particular, we have developed and provided training for workers at hazardous waste sites including the OSHA mandatory 40 hour initial class, the 8-hour annual refresher class and the 8-hour supervisor class.  We have also developed and provided specific training to client personnel to address specific chemicals.  Such training is designed to comply with OSHA's Hazard Communication (HAZCOM) standard