Immediate analysis of passing airstream
EQUIPMENT used for regulatory reporting purposes, such as high volume samplers, can be of little to no use in helping to manage and control dust emissions.
The pump and filter of high volume samplers produces only one 24-hour time weighted average, and even that result has to be determined in a costly laboratory process often days after the sampling session.
Results obtained with these systems are an all-embracing, non-specific historical record.
Other equipment report negative airborne particle values regularly and sometimes for extended periods of time.
This results in no alerts of potentially fatal occurrences.
Much of this type of equipment is often influenced by environmental factors outside the control of the company concerned.
It has been demonstrated that successful dust management strategies using Turnkey Osiris monitors put in place by various Australian companies have a beneficial direct impact on results required by the Regulatory Reporting Authority.
Controlling and managing dust emissions requires immediate information on what is occurring as a process, or while the practice is in progress.
Managing dust emissions is the designed response to a practice or process that is monitored to give consistent suppression or containment to the process or practice.
Turnkey Osiris airborne particle monitors and iGAS airborne gas detectors are purposely designed to sample the passing airstream every one second.
Alerts and alarms can thus be generated and propagated immediately.