Why do foundries need ambient dust monitoring?
In addition to continuous measurement from abatement plant, ambient levels can also be monitored continuously. Even where effective dust abatement plant is employed, ambient levels of dust can be significant and this is fine enough to be breathed deeply into the lungs. This can be highly dangerous and has potential to cause lung diseases. By monitoring ambient levels, it enables employers and employees alike to be aware of ambient levels and what processes affect them. Changes and improvements can then be made with quantifiable results.
The FDS range of ambient particulate monitors can help to ensure you and your workers are not unwittingly exposed to high levels of dust and can help as part of a wider system to provide a safe working environment.
How can CEM Solutions help?
CEM Solutions and the team within are well versed both with the legal obligations and also the practicalities of these applications. By providing systems that are well considered, designed and integrated with site infrastructure, not only can they be used to demonstrate compliance with the permit (be they EA Part A or Local Authority Part A1 / B ) but they can also add value to the operator.
This may simply be by easy extraction of data – providing reports that require no formatting. It could also be flexible trending of data to show / track plant performance or enable an operator to pinpoint the area of failure on a plant BEFORE the failure manifests into a forced shut down.