GKS Environmental
Occupational Hygiene Consultants
Services in London & Throughout The UK
With clients throughout the UK, GKS Environmental offer a high quality, professional workplace occupational hygiene consultancy service to industry and commerce.
We can undertake small one day contracts or provide a full service to large multi-site companies and organisations.
With extensive experience in the field of occupational hygiene, our clients benefits from the knowledge that the information and advice they receive is accurate and reliable.
We are committed to maintaining the highest standards using our own measurement equipment and contracting the analysis to competent laboratories. Where external laboratories are used we ensure full quality controlled and validation of results, with UKAS accredited methods being adopted wherever possible.
We believe that measurements quantify the problem and give some answers, but do not in themselves provide solutions. Measurements coupled with the results of an assessment or survey will provide practical answers to the control of a substance.
Our Approach
Once you have described the issues you have we prepare a quotation and a specification for the work together with the methodologies to be employed.
When the data has been collected and analysed we will generate a report, usually including photographs highlighting our findings.
We will provide specific or general recommendations as appropriate, following HSE guidance.
Exposure to hazardous materials
Approximately 13,000 people per year die from exposure to hazardous substances at work
Regulations place a duty on employers to assess the risks and take all necessary steps to prevent exposure.
Occupational Noise Risk Assessments
There are estimated to be 14,000 cases of noise induced hearing loss in the UK
Regulations require that where noise levels exceed 80 dB(A) a noise assessment will be needed.
Indoor Air Quality
Where carbon dioxide levels exceed 800 ppm the chance of mucus membrane infections increases 2 - 6 times, plus workers tend to be less productive and more often off work.
Local Exhaust Ventilation Testing
The most important part of an extraction system the intake - it also often receives the lease design effort
Regulations requires that Local Exhaust Ventilation systems be examined at least every 14 months.