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Folks
I hope someone can advise me here. We have a maintenance facility in Basingstoke area were we service lorries and tankers etc. The garage we use employs 3 people and its a single bay garage which can basically just fit in one lorry and tanker for servicing. We use air wrenches, grinders and drills etc. We also on some occasions do little bits of welding, however this is very limited. In fact when I am on site you could nearlly hear a pin drop in the garage. Is it really necessary for me to carry out the above. I know the law says risk assess so it probably is. It just dosnt make sense to spend mabye 3-4 grand on this.
If so can someone give me the names of any companies who carry this out in this area. Any advice would be appreciated guys. Many Thanks
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Have you completed your CoSHH assessments? This will help drive your decision for dust/fume monitoring.
Its not automatic that you must do fume and dust sampling - it depends!! What other contol do you have - if the welding is so little, adequate ventilation is probably sufficient. Assume you aren't welding any exotic materials with particularly nasty fumes?
The noise aspects will depend on the noise elevels you have.
Grinders/grinding can have high noise levels and can quickly exceed a daily noise dose - if 100dB or so, probably within 1/2hr or so.
Being pragmatic, if high noise levels are so infrequent, you probably aren't going to do much more than issue hearing protection anyway - but will the mechanics wear them?
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Eddy
Whether it is noise or dusts, etc, there are only three situations:
1 - you sure as hell have a problem; in which case, fix it
2 - you sure as hell do not have a problem; in which case, record the conclusion and monitor for any changes
3 - you might have a problem; in which case, measure noise or dust etc. exposures, assess the risk, apply remedial measures where necessary and record the conclusions.
As JJ says, very high noise levels can rack up the permitted daily noise exposures in quite a short time but, if you can estimate the level, you can use the HSE calculators (available online) to see if more detailed assessment is required.
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Hi I would agree with the other comments, and would also suggest the following. Check out the peak noise pressures on the dBC scale, as with hammers and power tools these can also be exceeded. On the question of engineers not wearing the PPE, it is not an option if it is required. You should also check out what is happening with the welding. Check out the information on the HSE web site. http://www.hse.gov.uk/welding/Ian
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