IH Lab Integration

The Challenge

Analytical Bottlenecks

Industrial hygiene generates a lot of data — data that you ultimately rely on to protect the health of your workers. Unfortunately, there are a number of common bottlenecks that can make managing your IH data a burdensome, time-consuming process and prevent you from gaining the timely, actionable insights you need to effectively control workplace risks.

For example, collecting samples according to your lab’s specific sampling methods and parameters typically requires searching through the lab’s sampling analysis guide (SAG), finding the chemical or physical stressors you’re sampling for, and copying or “mapping” all of the necessary sampling parameters (sample collection duration, collection media, sample volume, flow rate, analytical techniques, etc.) for each of those stressors into your sampling details. If this sounds like a lot of time and effort, you’re not wrong.

After the lab has completed the analysis, then there’s the task of entering the results into your database. Normally, you’d expect to receive a print-out or report from your lab, then have to manually transcribe the data into your system. This creates unnecessary delays, and the potential for errors and data loss that can leave you with inaccurate or incomplete analytical results. With the health of your workers and your business at stake, that’s a risk you can’t afford to take.