Biological and Chemical Working Environment
Prevent health risks when working with chemicals and biological substances
A safe biological and chemical working environment is all about protecting your employees from health risks posed by biological and chemical substances. These risks may arise from contact with biological microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, or fungi, or chemical substances such as cleaning products, paint, glue, asbestos, pesticides, and solvents.
We help your workplace achieve a better biological and chemical working environment
As an authorised occupational safety and health consultancy, we help you analyse your biological and chemical working environment. We keep you up to date with legislation and, through employee engagement, risk assessment, and audits, we offer consultancy on facility design, procedures, and preventive safety measures. Our aim is always to ensure that your employees can perform their work safely and responsibly.
We support you with ATEX, chemical risk assessments, and biological risk assessments.
Our consultancy within biological and chemical working environment includes
How we work with biological and chemical safety
We provide consultancy on risk assessment, preparation of biological and chemical workplace assessments, and ensure effective preventive measures in line with the STOP principle – where substitution, technical solutions, organisation and use of protective equipment are prioritised in the correct order.
We help you establish clear routines for classification, storage, and proper handling. We also ensure your employees receive the necessary training. We can assist you with:
- Biological risk assessment and classification (including GMOs, infection, vermin and wastewater)
- Chemical risk assessment and substance labelling
- Drawing up instructions and providing safety behaviour training
- Procedures for vaccination, emergency preparedness, waste management and incident management
What should you be aware of in the biological and chemical working environment?
If your organisation handles chemicals or biological agents, or works with processes where employees may be exposed via inhalation, skin contact, ingestion or needlestick injuries, you need to actively address:
- What hazards and risks are associated with the substances or materials in use?
- How, for how long, and to what extent are employees exposed?
- What preventive measures have been implemented?
- Are procedures, instructions and safety data sheets readily available and easy to understand?
- Are there experiences or data from occupational accidents, health checks, or inspections?
- Are the spread and transfer of hazards both within the workplace and to the environment prevented?
- Are protective equipment and emergency measures sufficient and used correctly?
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