The IH Blog
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 and its...
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...