Stack Emmission Monitoring
Anchem has extensive knowledge and experience of emission testing procedures and the requirements of our clients.
Asbestos Management Services
We are able to assist duty holders at all levels to ensure
compliance with the duty to manage asbestos.
Asbestos Testing and Training
Asbestos Testing & Monitoring Programmes can be provided to meet client’s specifications and provide project support, including air testing, material testing, advice & consultancy.
Occupational Hygiene
Anchem has undertaken a wide variety of occupational hygiene monitoring and assessments for over 25 years.
Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV)
The COSHH Regulations impose a duty to ensure that all LEV systems must be inspected & tested by a competent person at least every 14 months.
Laboratory Facilities
These capabilities allow us to act as a natural extension of a client’s own quality control department. Anchem can also carry out specialist investigative consultancy work for individual projects.

Anchem has undertaken a wide variety of occupational hygiene monitoring and assessments for over 25 years. This has enabled the division to gain respect and significant experience within the industrial and private sector.

Occupational Hygiene

  • Airborne dust – inhalable and respirable fractions, quartz, cristobalite and airborne particulates derived from grinding, drilling, cutting etc.
  • Lead in air for compliance with the Control of Lead at Work Regulations
  • Airborne species for comparison to HSE publication – EH40 Workplace Exposure Limits (WEL) for determinands such as zinc, cadmium, chromium, volatiles from paint spraying operations and isocyanates
  • Noise Assessments – to include octave band analysis for hearing protection suitability, personal exposures for compliance with Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005
  • Vibration exposure assessments
  • Weld fume assessments to include elemental analyses & ozone
  • Rubber fume, wood dust & oil mist
  • Machine Made Mineral Fibres (MMMF), phase contrast microscopy & gravimetric determinations
  • COSHH assessments - from workplace atmosphere sampling to full impact reports
  • “Sick Building Syndrome” investigations to include temperature and humidity profiles
  • Methodologies include MDHS, NIOSH & OSHA etc.
  • Degradation products and fumes from polymers and curing oven systems
  • Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 2002 – complete assessments of small or large scale installations.