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Real-time personal dust monitoring, as a new tool for managing exposure risk in the workplace, helps warn and inform workers about their potential exposure to increased respirable dust including respirable crystalline silica (RCS). The new DustCanary ALARM 220 extends the DustCanary wearable dust monitoring range of instruments and provides affordable real-time dust detection for multiple […]

The DustCanary TREND 420 enables practical dust monitoring daily, to help protect respiratory health in the workplace. Datalogging of real-time dust levels and instant visual and audible alarms alert when workers are exposed to increased respirable dust, including respirable crystalline silica (RCS), so that action can be taken to minimise exposure. For a limited time,

The DustCanary browser application provides a responsive, fresh, secure and private web experience for reporting dust exposure profiles recorded by DustCanary wearable dust monitors. The software makes it easy for Health and Safety professionals to connect a DustCanary wearable device to a PC in order to configure the audible and visual alarms, download recorded sessions

DustCanary Ltd, bringing innovation around real-time dust monitoring wearables, announces a new distribution agreement with Ultra Protect Ltd for the construction industry in the UK. Ultra Protect is now DustCanary’s partner for the construction industry providing sales, technical and service support for the DustCanary dust monitoring wearables range. DustCanary’s expertise in providing top-quality monitoring protection

DustCanary fully supports the recommendations of the ‘All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) Report – Improving Silicosis Outcomes in the UK’. Long term occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica plays a contributory role in literally 1000’s of current deaths a year in the UK which is shocking and indefensible, knowing that much of this exposure is

January 2023 sees the release of a new report from the UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Respiratory Health which includes clinical and regulatory recommendations that will make a real difference to silicosis outcomes and the future protection of workers health from respirable crystalline silica (RCS). Silica (Silicon dioxide) is found abundantly in the

The benefits and pitfalls of monitoring workplace exposure to dust are well documented and with the use of more precise terminology, visibility can be given to the different types of real-time monitoring and the associated characteristics and strengths and weaknesses. Different types of real-time monitoringReal-time monitoring should be considered an overall term for three different

It’s no coincidence that the DustCanary brand has strong links to the canary’s traditional role in mines. The recognised phrase ‘a Canary in the Coalmine’ which refers to early indicators of potential hazards is as relevant, if not more, today as it was from around 1911 when miners started carrying Canaries into the mines. Used

Awareness of environmental health and air quality is increasing worldwide. Workplace dust in particular poses various health risks including respiratory problems and diseases for workers breathing dust over both short and long term. Classed as inhalable and respirable, depending on size and other physical particle characteristics, workplace dust affects the lungs in different ways. Inhalable

Workplace air sampling measures the exposure of workers to gases and dust enabling control measures to be subsequently implemented to help protect workers’ health. Breakthrough low impedance air sampling technology, developed by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) working in partnership with the University of Hertfordshire, allows the production of notably compact, lightweight devices,