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Canberra & ACT Workplace Health Support
Practical occupational hygiene and workplace exposure assessment for businesses, construction projects, government, industry and organisations across Canberra and the ACT.
2HEM helps workplaces identify, measure and manage health hazards with evidence-based monitoring, clear reporting and practical recommendations. Based in Wagga Wagga, our team services clients across regional NSW and the ACT.
Understand what workers may be exposed to.
Measure airborne contaminants and control performance.
Useful findings, interpretation and recommendations.
Support for ACT workplaces and project sites.
Occupational Hygiene Services
Occupational hygiene focuses on anticipating, recognising, evaluating and controlling workplace health hazards. Monitoring can help a business understand whether workers are being exposed to airborne contaminants, excessive noise or other hazards and whether existing controls are working effectively.
2HEM works with clients to define the problem, develop an appropriate monitoring strategy, collect representative data and turn the results into practical actions.
2HEM is based in Wagga Wagga and provides consulting and occupational hygiene support across regional NSW and the ACT. This page describes our Canberra and ACT service area; it does not represent a Canberra office location.
For project-specific availability, scope and travel requirements, contact 2HEM before scheduling site work.
What We Can Assess
Monitoring should be matched to the workplace, tasks, materials and potential exposure pathways. 2HEM can assist with a range of occupational and environmental health hazards.
Personal and workplace air monitoring to assess respirable crystalline silica exposure and help evaluate the effectiveness of dust controls.
Exposure monitoring for welding fumes and relevant airborne contaminants to support risk assessment and control verification.
Monitoring for dusts, fumes, vapours and other airborne contaminants where worker exposure needs to be understood or controls verified.
Workplace noise surveys and exposure assessment to identify high-noise tasks, support risk management and inform practical controls.
Hazardous-materials advice, surveys and risk-management support where appropriate. ACT-specific asbestos work is subject to the Territory's licensing requirements.
Exposure-risk reviews, monitoring strategies, interpretation of results and practical recommendations for improving workplace health controls.
Canberra Workplaces
Workplace exposure risks can arise in many settings. Monitoring and occupational hygiene advice can be particularly useful where tasks generate dust, fumes, vapours or noise, where work practices change, or where a business needs objective information about the performance of its controls.
Why Monitoring Matters
Air monitoring is not itself a control measure. It provides evidence that can help determine the level of exposure and whether controls are performing as intended.
A useful occupational hygiene program connects monitoring results with the actual task, worker, controls and workplace conditions.
Our Approach
The right monitoring strategy starts with understanding why testing is required and what decision the results need to support.
We discuss the site, tasks, materials, workers, existing controls and the reason monitoring or assessment is required.
A monitoring approach is developed to collect information that is relevant to the exposure question and workplace conditions.
Representative monitoring and observations are completed while considering tasks, duration, controls and potential exposure pathways.
Results are interpreted and presented with practical recommendations to help manage exposure and improve controls where required.
ACT Workplace Requirements
ACT workplaces operate under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011. For airborne contaminants such as respirable crystalline silica, air monitoring can be required where there is uncertainty about exposure or a risk that the applicable exposure limit may be exceeded.
WorkSafe ACT states that silica air monitoring should be conducted by a competent person and that monitoring results can be used to assess exposure and the effectiveness of controls.
ACT asbestos requirements are also important to distinguish from NSW requirements. Certain asbestos identification, risk assessment, air monitoring and clearance work in the ACT can only be undertaken by an ACT licensed asbestos assessor. Project scope should therefore be confirmed before asbestos-related work is booked.
Canberra Service Area
2HEM can support suitable projects throughout the Canberra metropolitan area and wider ACT. Service availability depends on project scope, timing and site requirements.
We also service regional NSW, allowing organisations with sites across the ACT, Riverina and Southern NSW to discuss multi-site occupational hygiene requirements with the same consulting team.
Send 2HEM a brief description of the site, work activity, suspected hazard and desired timing. We can then discuss the appropriate scope and whether the project can be serviced from our regional base.
Frequently Asked Questions
Talk to 2HEM about your workplace, project, exposure concern or monitoring requirements.
2HEM provides occupational hygiene, asbestos and environmental consulting services across Wagga Wagga, the Riverina, Albury-Wodonga, Southern NSW and Canberra ACT.
