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Posted By Anne Lawson
I am working with a cleaning company that use a huge variety of products. In accordance with COSHH, they have substituted most of their products so that in a range of 2000 or so products they now have only 5 or so which have an OES stated - none have a MEL. They are products which are rarely used, used under supervision with PPE and only used for a very short time in a day eg 5 mins. Do they have to do any monitoring to check exposure levels of these chemicals - what does everyone think?
Many thanks in advance
Anne Lawson
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Posted By Paul Leadbetter
Anne
Air monitoring would only be required if any of these substances could get airborne (through use as a spray or because they are volatile) but, given your scenario, monitoring would be pretty pointless.
Paul
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Posted By Merv Newman
Following from paul's reply, the most you may want to do is a draeger tube test for the relevant ingredient. The tubes can indicate if there is a possible problem. If they detect something then compare the indicated concentration with the manufacturers indicated protection factor. Take the result with (after having checked the LD50) a large pinch of salt (stay on the safe side) and make your mind up.
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Posted By Anne Lawson
Thanks for your advice guys - much appreciated
Anne
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