Does fibreglass manufacturing need styrene monitoring?

Usually. Styrene from polyester resins is a hazardous chemical agent with an exposure limit that open moulding often approaches. A chemical risk assessment and personal monitoring show whether ventilation is adequate.

Our plant is new in the Atlantis SEZ. Which assessments come first?

A baseline risk assessment, then noise and chemical surveys for the main processes once production starts, and LEV tests on extraction systems.

Do large welding bays need LEV tests?

Yes. Extraction that controls welding fume must be examined and tested at intervals not exceeding 24 months.

OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE IN ATLANTIS

Atlantis, on Cape Town's West Coast, hosts a special economic zone for green technology manufacturing, including wind and solar component makers, alongside an established industrial area of appliance, fibreglass, metal and plastics factories.

Qualitas carries out occupational hygiene surveys for these employers: welding fume and solvent monitoring, styrene and composite resin assessments, noise surveys, LEV tests and baseline risk assessments for new plants.

REACH OUT

Worker cutting steel with an angle grinder as sparks fly

WHERE WE WORK AROUND ATLANTIS

Atlantis industrial area

Atlantis SEZ

Mamre

Melkbosstrand

Koeberg

Cape Town (see its own page)

Wind tower, solar and other green technology manufacturers in the Atlantis special economic zone: welding fume, grinding dust, coatings and noise.

Fibreglass and composite manufacturing: styrene and other resin vapours, glass fibre dust and extraction systems.

Metal fabrication, appliances and plastics: welding fume, solvents, noise and heat.

New plants that need baseline risk assessments and their first noise and chemical surveys.

THE HAZARDS WE MEASURE HERE

Welding fume and grinding dust from large steel fabrication, styrene from composites, solvents and isocyanates from coatings, noise from fabrication and presses, and repetitive assembly work.

Interior of a large industrial warehouse with overhead cranes

INDUSTRIES WE SERVE

Foundry workers in protective gear pouring molten metal

WHY QUALITAS

Qualitas Occupational Consulting is a Department of Employment and Labour Approved Inspection Authority (AIA) and a SANAS-accredited (ISO/IEC 17020) inspection body for asbestos, lead, noise and hazardous chemical agents, and applies the same quality system to all its assessments.

Every assessment is led by Christo de Wet, an occupational hygienist registered with the Southern African Institute for Occupational Hygiene (SAIOH), with 15 years of experience.

We work nationwide, and Qualitas has also carried out assessments in Botswana and Kazakhstan. Travel is quoted upfront.

You receive a professional, audit-ready report that stands up to inspection by the Department of Employment and Labour.