Occupational Health

NATA accredited

Workplace testing and consultancy services

Mine site at duskChemCentre provides a range of consultancy and analytical services covering the specific needs of diverse sectors and workplaces:

Essential hospital health needs

  • Assessing ventilation efficiency
  • Purity of hospital medical gases
  • Emergency response work for chemical accidents
  • Identification of unknown substances
  • Advice on chemical safety
  • Comprehensive surveys of waste anaesthetic gases including nitrous oxide, halothane, enflurane, isoflurane and methoxyflurane
  • Analysis of residual sterilising agents: glutaraldehyde, ethylene oxide
  • Monitoring of atmospheric levels of: photographic chemicals, formaldehyde, lint dust and solvent vapours

Workplace monitoring

  • Mercury, arsenic, toxic gases
  • Dusts (silica, asbestos)
  • Volatile Organics
  • Sick building syndrome (odour, nausea)
  • Advice on Chemical Safety
  • Auditing (ventilation, hazardous chemicals)
  • Education programs
  • Handling, storage and disposal of chemicals
  • Certification of Diving Gases including Submarine Air Quality

Workplace exposure to crystalline silica

Employees in the following industries may be at risk:

  • Mining
  • Blasting
  • Quarrying
  • Rock crushing
  • Rock screening
  • Processing and Manufacture
  • Siliceous cements
  • Clays
  • Diatomaceous earth
  • Brick, stone and tile cutting and grinding
  • Sand Blasting

Diving gas (compliance with Petroleum Submerged Lands Acts, Schedule, Specific Requirements as to Offshore Petroleum Exploration and Production - 1990)