The Occupational Hygienist or Indoor Environment Professional’s role is to mitigate health risks to those working or living under adverse conditions. Their clients include those engaged in Defence, construction, mining, confined spaces, abattoirs, waste management facilities, refrigerated and heated environments, and those responsible for contaminated buildings.
LITMAS staff are highly experienced in the field, having conducted very large scale Hygiene assessment and risk management projects. This allowed LITMAS to position themselves to support day to day consulting business and science operations. We are called when a confident, pragmatic, agile and flexible approach supported by robust and defendable Science is required to assess potential levels of worker or occupant exposure and risk.
LITMAS leads in communications with our clients by employing multiple channels of communication from remote dial-in site assessment support to automated tracking of workflow for laboratory samples and invoicing. We help assessors develop bespoke field testing packages, and apply a carefully crafted report combining client-shared site information with independence in laboratory reporting.
We provide analysis from a diverse and unique range of air and surface sampling devices for a wide range of microbial metrics, all designed to measure potential exposure over different time periods or under certain environmental or working conditions.
We additionally give complementary training from basic to advanced environmental testing and data analysis in Environmental Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Chemistry for our most dedicated clients.
LITMAS analysis steps beyond basic measurement to provide a simple but powerful, peer-reviewed tools that enhance site risk assessment.
LITMAS provides a single point of delivery for bacterial and mould sample analyses through culturing, microscopy and molecular (qPCR) analysis, and a single Chain of Custody to meet most microbial needs.
LITMAS laboratory reports provide easy to understand images and graphs that can be immediately included in site assessment reports, saving many hours of consultant time preparing outputs for reports.
LITMAS aligns its laboratory services with internationally renowned Asbestos collaborators to see clients receive unrivalled service and value on asbestos analysis through light microscopy or Transmission Electron Microscopy.