OSHA issues citations and penalties if businesses violate permissible exposure limits (PEL). PELs are legal limits designed to control employee exposure to hazardous substances in an eight-hour period ...

In part one of this series (May 2003), we explained the need for personal sampling, reviewed passive monitors and personal sampling pumps, and examined OSHA's substance-specific standards and their ...

The Apex2 range of personal dust-sampling pumps is designed to help employers monitor the environment of workers possibly exposed to high levels of respirable crystalline silica (RSC). Workers can be ...

Personal PM monitoring is considered a better method to estimate actual exposure than stationary monitoring 9, 10, 11 and has been applied to adults and older children. 12 However, personal monitoring ...