Air and noise monitoring
SECA conducts air and noise monitoring surveys to determine the air contaminant and noise levels at your facility, then compares them to the applicable OSHA standards. The two surveys are planned and reported separately, and they are often done on the same visit.
Air monitoring surveys
We measure what your workers are breathing. They wear a sampling pump for a full shift, a nationally accredited laboratory analyzes the samples, and you receive a clear report on what the results require you to do.
Noise surveys
We measure full-shift noise exposure for each job, so you know who needs hearing protection, who needs audiometric testing, and who does not.
Which one do you need?
- Someone asked what your workers are breathing. Dust, welding fume, solvents, or a new material on the floor: that is an air monitoring survey.
- People have to raise their voices to talk at work, or someone failed a hearing test. That is a noise survey.
- Both. A plant that grinds, welds or machines usually has both questions, and one visit can answer both.
How a visit works
We are usually at your facility for one to three days. Your workers wear the sampling pumps or dosimeters for a full shift while we observe how the job is actually done, not how the procedure says it is done. The report names the methods and the laboratory, gives a result for each person and each job, and says plainly what the results require you to do next.
Every site is different. How many people are sampled, and for what, is something we settle with you after a short planning call and before anything is booked.
When you don't need us
If you had a survey done in the last year, nothing about the process has changed, and the results came back well under the limits, you may not owe anyone a new one. Send us the previous report and we will tell you what it still covers.
No cost and no pressure. If you do not need the work, we will tell you so.