Industrial Hygiene
 

The Industrial Hygiene professionals of SHN have provided services for a wide variety of project sites including:

  • Petroleum Refineries

  • Chemical Manufacturing Plants

  • Mines

  • Industrial Facilities

  • Forest Product Facilities

  • Hazardous Waste Sites

  • Wood and Machine Shops

  • Chemistry Labs

  • Wastewater Treatment Plants

  • Landfills

  • Roads and Bridges

  • Public and Private Office Buildings

  • Residences

  • Pesticide, Nerve Agent, and Nuclear Weapons Production Sites

SHN Consulting Engineers & Geologists, Inc. (SHN), offers a broad range of industrial hygiene services.  SHN is committed to providing the expertise to protect the health and safety of people in the workplace and the community.  In fulfilling that purpose, we serve employers, employees, and the public with relevant information based upon recognized scientific principles and practices.  We help ensure that federal, state, and local laws and regulations, along with good health practices are followed in the work environment and the community, which benefits everyone.

Industrial hygiene is considered a "science," but it is also an art that involves judgment, creativity and human interaction.  The experience of our Certified Industrial Hygienist enables SHN to fully integrate these elements into our client’s health and safety issues.

Representative Industrial Hygiene Expertise

  • Chemical and Biological Hazards

  • Mold and Indoor Air Quality

  • Air Sampling Techniques

  • Noise and Vibration Analysis

  • Heat and Cold Stress

  • Ultraviolet & Infrared Radiation

  • Radio-frequency and Microwave

  • Toxicology

  • Lead and Asbestos

  • Ventilation Controls

Typical Services

  • Personal and Area Air Sampling

  • Hazardous Waste Site H & S

  • Indoor Environment Evaluations

  • Mold Hazard Investigations

  • Respiratory Protection Program

  • Workplace Risk Assessments

  • Confined Space Entry Program

  • Risk Communication

  • Hazard Communication Program

  • Skin Exposure Assessment

  • Chem. Protective Clothing Selection

  • Medical Surveillance Program Design

  • Industrial Hygiene Audits

  • Laboratory Health and Safety

 
The Industrial Hygiene professionals of SHN have a proven track record in anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling workplace hazards.  We collect the most appropriate samples and send them to a properly accredited analytical laboratory.  The results are then interpreted and provided to our clients along with scientifically defensible conclusions in terms they can understand. 

SHN Industrial Hygiene professionals also employ appropriate instrumentation and methods to assess hazards like noise, indoor environmental quality, and radio-frequency radiation.  We train workers in many areas including hazard communication, respiratory protection equipment use, safe work practices, and regulatory requirements.

Because of the work of our professionals, worker exposure to hazardous chemicals has been reduced to safe levels, company exposure to regulatory fines was lowered, adverse publicity has declined, and concerns of the public have decreased.  In addition, worker down time for injury and illness have been significantly reduced.

 

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