The United Kingdom and the United States share many similarities but are distinctly different in the way each nation structures and enforces their respective health and safety legislation, monitoring ...

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health recently expanded its Oregon Child Absenteeism Due to Respiratory Disease Study, using air sampling and complementary methods to track ...

Air and surface sampling techniques currently used by the US government are effective in fighting bioterrorism and potentially saving lives, a researcher finds. In 2005 and 2009, the Pentagon Force ...

The most universally applied method for cleanroom classification is one suggested in 1963 by US Federal Standard 209. In this standard, the number of particles ≥0.5 µm is measured in one cubic foot of ...

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 ...

Cherwell has published the findings of an investigative study suggesting that prepared media plate choice can affect the accuracy of microbial air sampling. This is a significant finding as following ...

Adelaide University researchers have shown that pairing sniffer dogs with a simple air-sampling device could dramatically improve the detection of illegally trafficked wildlife hidden inside shipping ...

You don't have to be a certified industrial hygienist to do personal air sampling." That's what I've told hundreds of participants in introductory industrial hygiene courses I have taught since 1994.