Study links fine particles to death rates
Exposure to toxic air pollutants is linked to increased cardiovascular and respiratory death rates, according to a new, international study
Keeping out noxious air and particles
ODS Environmental is offering cab air quality systems that maintain a slightly elevated pressure level inside the cab, preventing any air from entering
Setting boundaries
n recent months Casella has launched an improved version of its Dust Detective Enclosure, which the firm believes will make an impact in short-term boundary and environmental monitoring in both indoor and outdoor environments
Intrinsically safe dust monitor launches
Many workplaces include areas with explosive or potentially explosive atmospheres, and a high proportion of these zones contain risks associated with particulates
Water-thrifty units trap toxic particles
Generac Mobile Products has unveiled the latest addition to its DF Ecology range, which is claimed to reduce dust and consume less water than many competitor offerings .
Time to get serious about dust?
More nuisance than health risk, in traditional thinking, but no longer. Dust has been driven up the safety agenda in recent years, not just in construction. Envirotec reviews recent thinking on the topic .
Monitor delivers advanced particulate monitoring for hazardous environments
New real-time monitoring technology identifies multiple particulate sizes at once
Trolex, a Manchester-based provider of workplace safety technology solutions to the mining, industrial and tunnelling...
Why monitor dust in the workplace?
By Josh Thomas, Ashtead Technology
Flexible and future proof gas detection
Ashtead Technology has announced that the TSI Environmental DustTrak™ Aerosol Monitors in its fleet of particulate matter (PM) monitors have achieved MCERTS approval. "As...
Workshop focuses on dust protection
Ashtead Technology, TSI and the Health & Safety Laboratory (HSL) recently collaborated to deliver a workshop focusing on the environmental and safety hazards presented...
“Perfect timing” for Air Quality and Emissions event
AQE 2017 will take place in Telford (UK) on 24 and 25 May at a time when the health effects of air pollution are...
Compact air quality station combines PM2.5 and O3 measurement
Sensor-based air quality monitoring expert Aeroqual has announced a new arrival in its ambient air monitoring product line up – the AQS 1 compact...
Anatomy of a particulate monitor: The Fidas 200 explained
Palas, the German manufacturer of particulate monitoring instruments, says it is expanding production to cope with demand for its fine particulate monitor, the Fidas®...
Continuous PM reading with compact unit
The Fidas® Frog is a compact fine dust monitor with a detachable control panel for indoor and workplace exposure measurements.
Available from instrumentation firm Palas,...
Fifteen years on, the dust has still to settle
The estimated 1,000 tons of asbestos-rich dust released in the collapse of the World Trade Centre has the potential to claim more lives says...
Power-thrifty dust monitor stands on its own
ENVIRO Technology Services is now offering the EDM180 environmental dust monitor from German manufacturer Grimm Aerosol. The EDM180 is a stationary monitor for simultaneous,...
Dust monitoring workshop draws a crowd
IN February instrumentation specialist Ashtead Technology and monitoring instrument manufacturer TSI co-hosted a technical workshop which focused on monitoring workplace and environmental air quality....
Easy set-up particulates monitor
Particle measurement specialist TSI has expanded its line of DustTrak™ Aerosol Monitors with the introduction of the Environmental DustTrak Aerosol Monitor. The device is...
An update on asbestos in soils
Hazel Davidson of Derwentside Environmental Testing Services offers an update on the issue of asbestos in soils
ASBESTOS in soils continues to be a troublesome...
Step forward with fine dust system
Jim Mills, a particulate monitoring specialist from Air Monitors Ltd, believes ambient dust monitoring technology has taken a major step forward with the development...
