Do aviation maintenance hangars need chemical monitoring?

Often. Fuel vapours, solvents, paints with isocyanates and composite resins are hazardous chemical agents. A chemical risk assessment decides where monitoring and LEV tests are needed.

Is aircraft noise covered by the Noise Exposure Regulations?

Yes. Ground handlers and maintenance staff can be exposed well above 85 dB(A). A noise survey sets noise zones and checks hearing protection.

What does a new development need before construction?

A baseline risk assessment, and an asbestos survey of any existing buildings before demolition or alteration.

OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE IN LANSERIA

Lanseria, on the border of Johannesburg and Mogale City, is growing fast around its international airport, with aviation maintenance, logistics and light industrial parks, and large new mixed-use developments planned for the area.

Qualitas carries out occupational hygiene surveys for these employers: noise surveys, fuel vapour and exhaust monitoring, manual handling and ergonomics assessments, indoor air quality surveys and baseline risk assessments for new projects.

REACH OUT

Worker cutting steel with an angle grinder as sparks fly

WHERE WE WORK AROUND LANSERIA

Lanseria

Cosmo City

Diepsloot

Muldersdrift

Fourways

Krugersdorp (see its own page)

Airport operations, aviation maintenance and ground handling: noise, jet fuel vapours, solvents, paint and composite work in hangars.

Logistics and distribution parks: forklift noise, diesel and LPG exhaust, lighting and manual handling.

Light industry and workshops: welding fume, solvents and LEV.

Construction of new developments: silica, noise and asbestos checks before demolition.

THE HAZARDS WE MEASURE HERE

Aircraft and ground equipment noise, jet fuel and solvent vapours, isocyanates in aircraft painting, diesel and LPG exhaust, silica on construction sites, and manual handling.

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.