Get a Clean Bill of Health with Dust Monitoring Solutions

Dust monitoring solutions from Casella are ensuring that the health of employees is protected from over-exposure to harmful inhalable and respirable dust in the Oil & Gas industry

Environmental and personal measuring and monitoring solutions are used across industry in environments that contain harmful dusts to protect employee health from over-exposure. Typical upstream activities such as blasting, drilling, cementing and fracking produce high volumes of potentially harmful dust.

The fracking process requires large volumes of sand, combined with water and a variety of chemicals, which is injected into a rock to release the valuable gas that is stored inside. This sand can contain up to 99% silica, which is a lung carcinogen. Workers who are exposed to silica dust, which is inevitably churned out during the transportation and use of the sand, are at risk of developing silicosis and a variety of other respiratory diseases that can lead to ill-health and in some cases death.

Casella’s advanced dust monitoring instruments are being implemented by leading oil & gas businesses as part of essential, yet self-imposed, air and dust monitoring programmes. The data collected by the environmental and personal monitoring instruments enables site management to make informed decisions on whether the workforce is being exposed to harmful levels of dust. If data reveals that exposure is high then pro-active changes that will reduce employee and workforce exposure can be implemented.

The reliable dust monitoring solutions from Casella are specifically designed for ease of use and quick set up. The solutions available to industry include hand-held data loggers, bodily worn sampling media, remote web-based site measurement apparatus, and more.

For further information on Casella’s full range of air and dust monitoring solutions, please visit the Casella website: www.casellasolutions.com.