LCS Laboratory offers ready-to-use air sampling kits for Indoor Air Quality testing of recycling shops and plants.
A typical kit includes 2-15 portable air sampling pumps, hoses, cassette holders, and various filters to collect dust and vapors. Dust and vapors can be generated during disassembly, recycling and packaging of used electronics. The kit is developed for health and safety professionals with previous experience in air-sampling. While air sampling itself is relatively straightforward, and we put all efforts to add as many sampling manuals as we can, it is still very important that you have previous experience in air sampling and can use laboratory results to evaluate your workplace safety and to prepare an internal safety report.
Typical sampling takes 4-6 hours. Air quality and workload should be typical and representative for your operation. Samples are typically collected as “personal samples” meaning that workers are wearing the sampling equipment for the duration of shift.
The list below outlines the most common tests that address a workers’ exposure:
- Formaldehyde in soldering fumes. Formaldehyde is produced as a result of thermal decomposition of rosin based soldering flux. Samples are collected on diffusive badges by OSHA 1007 method or of DNPH tubes by OSHA 2016
- Metal dust and fumes, mostly Copper, Lead, and Tin are produced during de-soldering and cutting of electronic motherboards. Sampling is performed on 37 mm MCE cassettes by NIOSH 7301 procedure, where the metals are analysed using ICP AES technique
- Mercury vapor is produced by recycled fluorescent bulbs and tubes, older style thermostats, and several kind of switches
- Total and/or Respirable dust. This is a measure of total dust that may consist of polymer dust, dirt, and environmental dust accumulated on electronic parts.
Asbestos fibers, may occur in old radio sets and TV sets, where asbestos was used as heat insulators and as a component of ceramic plates.
If you need training we will be happy to assist you with your first project.
We also offer full service which will be performed by a professional Air Quality Specialist. Service includes: site visit to discuss your project, quotation, collection of the air samples, submitting the samples to our laboratory and completion of the report.
If you work for a different industry and need customized service, we will be happy to assist. Please contact us to order your kit from our laboratory or review the list of available kits.
