Industrial hygiene is a science that benefits everyone. It helps employers and industrial hygienists anticipate, recognize, evaluate and control environmental and physical hazards, which can affect the health and well-being of workers and community members.

Industrial hygiene uses strict and rigorous scientific methodology and often requires professional judgment based on experience and education in determining the potential for hazardous exposure risks in workplace and environmental studies. These aspects of occupational hygiene can often be referred to as the “art” of occupational hygiene and is used in a similar sense to the “art” of medicine. In fact “occupational hygiene” is both an aspect of preventative medicine and in particular occupational medicine, in that its goal is to prevent industrial disease, using the science of risk management, exposure assessment and industrial safety. Ultimately professionals seek to implement “safe” systems, procedures or methods to be applied in the workplace or to the environment.

Industrial hygiene is a science that benefits everyone. It helps employers and industrial hygienists anticipate, recognize, evaluate and control environmental and physical hazards, which can affect the health and well-being of workers and community members.

Industrial hygiene uses strict and rigorous scientific methodology and often requires professional judgment based on experience and education in determining the potential for hazardous exposure risks in workplace and environmental studies. These aspects of occupational hygiene can often be referred to as the “art” of occupational hygiene and is used in a similar sense to the “art” of medicine. In fact “occupational hygiene” is both an aspect of preventative medicine and in particular occupational medicine, in that its goal is to prevent industrial disease, using the science of risk management, exposure assessment and industrial safety. Ultimately professionals seek to implement “safe” systems, procedures or methods to be applied in the workplace or to the environment.

The goal of an environmental risk assessment is to help avoid potential risk to the Bank due to environmental hazards that are part of the operation of a business or that may be present in the loan collateral. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), often called the Superfund law, establishes liability for the cleanup of contaminated property. CERCLA provides an exemption from this liability for parties who hold a security interest in contaminated property, as long as the interest is only to secure a loan and the lender does not “participate in the management ” of the property. The EPA issued the “Lender Liability Rule” to clarify exemptions for lenders. While this rule was thrown out in 1994, the EPA and the Department of Justice issued a policy statement in 1995 to state that they will observe the Lender Liability Rule to enforce CERCLA.

Ctgroup has successfully completed Phase I Environmental Site Assessments, Phase II ESAs and Phase III ESAs. We’ve mitigated grossly contaminated Sites including gas stations, dry-cleaners, agricultural and commercial/industrial land.

Molds are various types of fungi that grow in filaments and produce spores. The most common types of household mold that are found indoors include Cladosporium, Penicillium, Alternaria, and Aspergillus. Stachybotrys chartarum (also known as Stachybotrys atra and sometimes referred to as “black mold”) is a greenish-black mold that can also be found indoors, although it is less common than the other types of mold found in homes. Molds produce irritating substances that may act as allergens in sensitive individuals. Furthermore, some molds produce toxic substances known as mycotoxins, but mold itself is not poisonous or toxic. The conditions under which some molds produce toxins are poorly understood, and the presence of mold, even a mold that is capable of producing toxins, does nor always imply that toxins are being produced. Mold may not cause any health effects, or it may lead to symptoms in people, including adults and children, who are sensitive to molds.

Mold-screening surveys provide those involved in real-estate transactions with information regarding the presence of  mold resulting from water/moisture intrusion and/or generation within buildings. Ctgroup can conduct exposure assessments for mold as well as visually assess properties with suspect mold contamination.

Most new telecommunication Sites (new or existing) will require varying degrees of due diligence. Usually, a Phase I ESA will be needed in addition to testing of suspected lead-based paint and asbestos-containing materials (though this is outside of the scope of ASTM1527-13). If on-Site or off-Site facilities have created a contamination concern for the Site, a Phase II may be warranted.

For most raw land Sites, the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) requires a Section 106 report inidicating whether the proposed project will not adversely impact historic resources. This submittal also includes tribal notifications via TCNS which allows Native American tribes to comment on any archeological or cultural significance within the proposed Project Site. Usually concurrently, a NEPA report is also completed which includes information regarding the physical setting of the Site. This includes an examination of endangered species, wetlands, floodplains, proximity to wildlife refuges, among others.