Ensuring the health and safety of employees is a key priority for businesses. An unhealthy workforce leads to loss of productivity, increased absenteeism and reduced profits. The quality of the air that staff breathes is therefore a vital aspect of providing a safe environment in which people can work productively with no detrimental effect on their health.
Offices can play host to a wide range of air borne contaminants. Fixtures and fittings including new furnishings, office equipment such as photocopiers or computers and even the paint on the walls can emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and even Formaldehyde which is highly toxic to humans.
Facilities managers keen to develop focused strategies to improve air quality and keep an eye on the levels of certain gases should look no further than Enviro Technology's new range of portable, hand-held air quality monitoring products.
Enviro Technology's new products including the Kitagawa Gas Detector Tube System and GrayWolf monitors enable facilities managers to ensure periodic spot-checks for levels of certain gases can be made quickly and effectively.
Both systems are straightforward and easy to use providing instant and reliable testing for a range of hazardous gases and vapours.
The Kitagawa system can be adapted to test for more than 300 different gases, from Ammonia to Xylene and is particularly suited to those offices or buildings located near or within processing or manufacturing plants.
The GrayWolf solution harnesses the power of mobile computing by providing application software enabling facilities managers to record data, document information, log key parameters and create reports.
For those facilities managers looking to monitor air pollutants such as dust particles, Enviro Technology has launched the Aerocet 531, a portable hand-held, battery operated unit which provides particle counts and mass particulate matter measurements as stored data logged values, real-time networked data or printed results.
The beauty of the Aerocet 531 is that despite its small size, it provides facilities managers with a powerful tool for effectively monitoring and measuring all five important mass size ranges (PM1, PM2.5, PM7, PM10 and TSP) in mass mode as well as two popular cumulative particle sizes (>0.5 and >5.0 microns) in particle mode.
Employees expect to work in a safe working environment that won't affect their health. Businesses have a duty to ensure that the air staff are breathing is at a high enough quality and if there are harmful gases or pollutants present, that steps are made to improve it.
Enviro Technology's new range of portable monitors are a vital weapon in facilities manager's armoury to guarantee the workplace is safe and healthy for all.
For more information on Enviro Technology's products, visit www.et.co.uk or call 01453 733 200.
