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Environmental Science Program
Industrial Hygiene and Safety Laboratory
The evaluation of health and safety hazards requires that the student or practitioner understands the principle of operation of equipment and that the values obtained are properly interpreted with regard to health and safety risk. This requires hands-on experience in the use and maintenance of field and laboratory equipment.
The Industrial Hygiene and Safety Laboratory provides support facilities for class demonstrations on sampling and analysis techniques for occupational hazards and to support research projects.
Facilities and equipment are provided for:
- MyoTrac-Infiniti Dual Channel with Biograph software
- Air sampling (personal sample pumps and accessory kits).
- Measuring air flows (bubble flow meter, electronic calibrator, rotameter, inclined manometer, and velometer).
- Preparation of known standards (permeation tube standards generator, air flow dilution system, and gas bags).
- Radiation monitoring (Geiger-Mueller tubes, scintillation probe, pancake probe, dosimeters, and wipe tests).
- Noise surveys and hearing testing (sound level meter, octave band and impact analyzer, noise dosimeters, and audiometer).
- Analysis of combustible gases (combustible gas meter, and organic vapor analyzer).
- Heat and cold stress (WBGT heat stress analyzer).
- Analysis for organic vapors (gas chromatography/FID and GC/MS).
- Microscopic particle size analysis of industrial dusts.
- Particulate matter (Haz-Dust Monitor, Microbalance),
- Asbestos fiber densities (450X phase contrast microscope).
- Analysis for heavy metals (Inductively Coupled Argon Plasma Spectrometer and X-Ray Fluorescent Analyzer).
- Analysis for gases and vapors (detector tube kits, MIRAN infrared analyzer and visible spectrophotometer).
- Multigas monitors: O2 CO2, H2S, and combustible gases
- Sampling simultaneously for particulate matter and vapor.
- Other (hi-vol air sampler, desiccator cabinet, refrigerator, water bath).
- Microcomputer work stations (LogNorm2, air pollution dispersion models, GC/MS tutorial).
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