It’s Time to Reconsider Occupational and Air PFAS Exposure
By Bharat Chandramouli, Ph. D. Throughout the years, we’ve kept you up to date on the ever-expanding PFAS crisis, spanning across the continent from Maine to North Carolina, Michigan, California, Canada, and numerous other regions. While PFAS has caused alarm,...
EPA Proposes New Legislation on Protection from EtO
By Ed Stuber, CIH, ROH, FAIHA Recently, I conducted an informative AIHA webinar on ethylene oxide (EtO). Considering the growing concern surrounding the safeguarding of individuals enduring prolonged exposure to EtO or its derivatives, I shared the latest from the...
Facing Intensifying Wildfire Activity Across North America, Turn to SGS for Support
By Karen Maxwell, I&E – EHS, Business Development Manager If you live in California and have travelled to the Midwest or East Coast in the last few months, you may have experienced déjà vu. That smokey smell and haze that envelops the Far West during...
Where to Go Next on IAQ
Where to Go Next on IAQ The Fed is Moving on IAQ and SGS is the Best Direction to Move In By Ed Stuber CIH, ROH, FAIHA Last November my colleague Ron McMahan blogged about the Federal government finally recognizing the impact that indoor air quality has on everyone’s...
Inventory and Logistics – OPTIMIZED
Improving Tracking and Inventory Levels on Key Programs, Ensures Clients Get What’s Needed, When Needed SGS Galson Inventory/Logistics Manager, Gale Peterson confidently points clients to SGS’s groundbreaking and innovative programs like FreePumpLoan™ and Equipment...
Meeting the Challenge Together to Improve Indoor Air Quality
By Ron McMahan Industries and Environment SGS North America Innovations I was pleased to see the industrial hygiene community get a big boost recently when the Biden administration called on business and school leaders to act on improving indoor air quality in their...
Grow Your Business While SGS Helps You Negotiate WELL’s Certification and Performance Rating Process
By Ed Stuber, CIH, ROH, FAIHA Industries and Environment Business Development Manager Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, awareness grew among commercial building owners, renters, tenants, and visitors how important healthy air is in buildings to health, comfort, and...
Keeping You Informed On Proposed ACGIH Threshold Limit Changes
SGS Galson is committed to keeping you informed of industry changes that affect how you do your jobs. These changes are often related to changes in exposure limits by industry governing bodies or the government itself. To keep your clients in compliance, you need to...
SGS Environment, Health, and Safety Arrives in Chicago – Opening New Innovative Lab
Part of being SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection, and certification company, means always evolving and integrating sustainable environmental solutions worldwide. That’s why we’re bridging the gaps between global and local markets, growing with the purpose of...Convergence: How SGS Galson is Meeting the Moment with Innovation and Collaboration in Schools
By Ron McMahan, SGS Industries & Environment Director of Advanced Technologies Almost two years ago, SARS CoV-2 was first identified and soon after that, we began providing all manner of air, water and surface testing to keep companies aware and essential workers...
Assuring Indoor/Outdoor Workers are Protected from Wildfire Pollutants
Tim Quinn, Industries & Environment, Sr. Product Manager – Cloud Monitoring The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) clearly states that not only emergency personnel fighting wildfires have potential of hazardous exposure to smoke...
What was Causing High Benzene Levels in that Grassy Field? SGS Galson’s AIHR Shark Figured It Out.
Chris Schepcoff, Environment, Health and Safety, Business Development Manager EPA 325’s original intent was to regulate oil refineries for benzene concentrations at property fencelines. What followed was individual states and communities getting on board with...
What’s in the Air After the Wildfires? SGS Galson’s SmartSense Provides Answers.
Tim Quinn, Industries & Environment, Business Development Manager and Cloud Technologies Subject Matter Expert The devastation from the ever-increasing wildfires in California is bad enough, but after the fires are extinguished, the people lucky enough to be able...
Was it the Tanks or the Docks? SGS Galson AIHR Shark Solves Oil Refinery’s Benzene Mystery.
Chris Shepcoff, Environment, Health and Safety, Business Development Manager Clients are discovering the actual impact our innovations are making in the often-difficult task of pinpointing the location of toxic emissions. The SGS Galson AIHR Shark is our...EPA FOCUS ON ETHYLENE OXIDE RESULTS IN SGS GALSON RESPONSE
At SGS Galson, we don’t wait around to replicate “the other guys’ solution”. For decades, we respond to a challenge with practical, smart, innovative solutions. The EPA recently identified ethylene oxide (EtO) as a potential carcinogen and SGS Galson responded. The...Let SGS Galson Help Determine If You Are You in Compliance with the New Lower Osha PEL for Beryllium
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a final rule to prevent chronic beryllium disease and lung cancer in American workers by limiting their exposure to beryllium and beryllium compounds. The rule contains standards for general industry,...SGS Galson Presents Free Silica Webinar on September 19, 1 PM EST
Please join us for an SGS Galson-sponsored webinar: “Navigating the Silica Standard: Resources to Help” on September 19, 1 PM EST. This webinar is being offered by Workplace Material Handling and Safety magazine. The instructor will be Eileen Betit,...Judging Lab Quality for Silica Analysis
By Bill Walsh, Industrial Hygiene Services Business Development, CIH The new silica standard requires that analytical laboratories performing analyses under this standard must be accredited to ISO17025. SGS Galson is. We are also accredited for silica analysis by the...SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS GUIDE UPDATES AS OF 12/12/17
The following additions are now on the online SAG: Hydrogen Peroxide by method OSHA 1019; Colormetric Formaldehyde and Acetaldehyde by method OSHA 1007 HPLC collected on Assay 581 PM These updates are reflected in today’s online SAG (12/12/17)...SGS Galson Now Offers Dependable Resource for Mold Analysis in Texas
As my home state Texas recovers from Hurricane Harvey, both residential and commercial buildings are faced with extensive water damage and the threat of mold infiltration. SGS Galson has been conducting mold analysis throughout the world for 47 years and is globally...GETTING UP TO SPEED ON THE BEST IH SOLUTIONS
By Lisa Bell-Miller The fastest pitch in baseball this year so far was made by Joe Kelly of the Red Sox at 102.2 miles per hour. That’s really fast! From our Houston, TX facility, now in full swing, SGS Galson is also delivering Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico,...Subscribe to SGS News:
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