Industries the DustCanary range is suitable for

The DustCanary range is suitable for effectively monitoring a wide variety of dust and aerosol types across industrial processes, mining operations, and construction sites. Our personal wearables can detect particles including respirable crystalline silica (RCS), cement, minerals, wood, food substances (including starch and flour), metals, and oil mist.

Real-time dust monitoring across all industrial processes

The DustCanary TREND 420 has a wide dynamic range that can measure dust from 10mg/m3 to below 0.005 mg/m3, making it suitable for use across various processes in mining and construction.

Processes at Construction Sites:

• Concreting, drilling and surface preparation
• Stone cutting (including fitting of kitchen work tops)
• Demolition
• Road and rail maintenance and repair
• Tunnelling (concrete pouring)

Industrial and Mining Operations:

• Quarrying and mining
• Minerals cutting and milling
• Materials handling of minerals
• Shotblasting for surface preparation
• Cement and Lime production
• Minerals processing and packing
(Gypsum, silica, gravel, glass)
• Recycling of materials

Minimise worker exposure with respirable silica monitoring

In the construction and minerals industry, a primary safety concern is to ensure that worker exposure to respirable crystalline silica (RCS) is minimised and below the eight-hour time weighted average workplace exposure limit (WEL) of 0.05mg/m3. This is due to the carcinogenic classification of the crystalline particles which are created when materials containing silica are fractured by either drilling, cutting, sanding, abrasion, or blasting.

DustCanary real time instruments measure total respirable dust in the important 0.05mg/m3 to 1mg/m3 range. Since the proportion of RCS in a minerals dust is relatively constant for a specific type of stone or mineral, personal dust monitoring wearables provides a pragmatic method for controlling RCS exposure by alarming when respirable dust reaches pre-set limits.

While the real time sensor cannot identify the type of dust and is not specific to a certain dust type, it can qualitatively monitor the concentration of different particle size fractions including respirable dust (PM4). It indicates trends of dust over time and alarms when detecting an increase in overall respirable dust level above pre-defined levels. Samples captured on the filter can be analysed in the laboratory to identify specific particle types.