Analytical Approach to Determine Chemical Contamination at Workplace by Using DMS Technique

Chemical exposure is a major occupational health and safety (OHS) concern in chemical industry. Management of chemical exposure requires the combined efforts of EHS specialists, including industrial hygienists, and occupational health specialist. This paper is dedicated for workplace chemicals monitoring to assess the chemical exposure in chemical industry during their routine and non-routine operation. Chemical monitoring at workplace is as legal requirement for industry those who engaged in chemical business. In order to understand the chemical exposure, chemical identification is primary requirement in which safety data sheet is preferred to identify the hazardous properties of particular chemical. Once the hazardous properties is identified then exposure limit which is defined by local and other authority such as factories act, OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) prescribed limit will be utilized. Monitoring mechanism depends on the type of chemicals, state of chemical, handling of chemical, duration and its properties which will enable us to exact chemical exposure in the workplace. Once the contamination is assessed then evaluation part comes into the picture to verify whether exposure is safe or not with respect to its safe exposure limits. If chemical exposure is beyond the safe exposure limit then appropriate control measure in form of hierarchy of risk control methodology will be adopted or if the exposure limit is below safe exposure limit then no need to take any other control measures however it depends on the process operation which one is taken into the consideration if it is regular or routine operation then it will be appropriate or otherwise emergency case scenario can also be taken into the account.