Protect, Assess, Prevent
Certified Occupational Hygiene (COH) Services
THN Group has recently expanded its core service offering to include an in-house certified occupational hygienist to assess and minimise exposure to occupational health hazards.
These hazards include chemical, physical, biological, ergonomic, and psychosocial agents. Our COH can provide excellent information and recommendations, assessments, training and toolbox sessions. Our COH has extensive experience in civil projects, mining, oil and gas, chemical manufacturing, rail possessions, building, utilities, education, childcare, aged care, human health, high risk industries, confined space entry risk management and working around vulnerable people.
Our core COH services can be seen below:
Occupational Health and Hygiene Risk Management
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Developing Occupational Health Hygiene and Wellness Plans (OHHWMP) informed by our:
- L1RA - desktop qualitative risk assessment
- L2RA - walkthrough assessments
- L3RA - quantitative RA based on monitoring data
- Assurance auditing on controls including Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Development of occupational hygiene monitoring programs
- COVID Safe Plans
Occupational Hygiene
- Exposure assessments (qualitative and quantitative) of airborne contaminants such as dust and welding fumes, asbestos, lead, respirable crystalline silica (RCS) occupational noise, hand-arm vibrations, whole-body vibrations, hazardous substance and thermal stress
- Outdoor and indoor air quality and work equipment assessments
- Fit tests for respiratory protection equipment
- Hazardous substances and dangerous goods risk management
Hazardous Materials and Building Audits (Full Compliance Report)
- Assessments identifying potentially hazardous building materials across an array of buildings and spaces
- Asbestos, lead in paint, dust and soils
- Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
- Ozone depleting substances and synthetic greenhouse gases
- Other hazardous/unidentified materials including: mould, microbial activity and chemical residues
Full Asbestos Hygiene Capabilities
- Asbestos awareness training
- Asbestos Material Surveys (compliance and pre-demolition)
- Preparation and review of Asbestos Registers, Management Plans (AMPs) and control plans
- Controls and background environmental asbestos monitoring
- LAAs able to conduct smoke testing for the seal of asbestos enclosures
- The performance of asbestos clearances
- Onsite ID and asbestos fibre counting using satellite NATA labs
- Expediting confirmation of asbestos fibres within a sample matrix by scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
- Provision of an emergency/priority illegal dumping and clearance service
Mould and Microbiology
- Mould and microbiological investigations
- Building materials moisture content
- Response to storm and accidental water release claims
