LCS Laboratory Inc., offers air quality tests for welding fumes. As a “turn-key” package you will receive portable, battery-operated, air sampling pumps, sampling cassettes, laboratory analysis of your samples using the NIOSH 7301 method, and a formal laboratory report stating the airborne concentrations of 19 common heavy metals.
Electron microscopy of welding fume
“Welding fume” is a generic term of complex mixtures of micron and sub-micron particles of molten metals, metal oxides, carbides, nitrides, and silicates. While silicates come mostly from flux, all other components are byproducts of a chemical reaction between metal vapor and air.
Welding fume particles are extremely small and can travel deep into lungs, posing a variety of health concerns. The exposure to welding fumes and individual metals is regulated. Not all welding fumes are the same, each has a unique chemical composition and its concentration in the air also varies.
Gilian Pump with cassette
Our air quality kit will allow you to collect samples of total metal dust and test them for all toxic metals commonly used in the industry. As a part of the package, we test and report on the following metals: Aluminium, Barium, Cadmium, Calcium, Chromium, Cobalt, Copper, Iron, Lead, Magnesium, Manganese, Molybdenum, Nickel, Potassium, Silver, Sodium, Strontium, Tin, and Zinc. Laboratory results should then be compared to Ontario’s Ministry of Labor’s Exposure Limits Regulation to confirm if the air quality is in compliance with the law.
Before you email us to order your sampling kit, please decide on how many samples you want to collect. The scope of work depends on size of production and workload. Typically, our clients collect between 3 and 15 samples of welding fumes. Please email us for a free non-obligatory quote.
