Compressed Air Quality Testing

Safewell Solutions provides a complete site audit and risk analysis of your existing compressed air system and helps its clients develop a holistic safety management process.

This applies to compressed air used for respiratory protection and also critical process use such as food and pharmaceutical manufacture. Ambient air quality studies can also be carried out.

When the quality of ambient air is too risky to breathe, compressed air is used for Respiratory Protection by operatives working in a number of industrial sectors including oil and gas, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, nuclear, diving and in medical applications.

The quality of the compressed air is critical for the health and safety of the people breathing the air as contaminated air can have an immediate effect on their wellbeing and long term health. Compression of ambient air concentrates the normal contaminants already present in the air and can also introduce other contaminants such as oil vapours, condensed water and bacteria.

It is important that the risks are understood, controlled and monitored in accordance with compressed air for breathing quality standards such as BS EN 12021:2014 ‘Respiratory equipment. Compressed gases for breathing apparatus.’ Safewell Solutions can help you with this.

For employers in the UK this is a statutory legal requirement specified in COSHH L5 5th edition ACOP Approved Code of Practice; sections 190-200 cover Respiratory Protective Equipment and the UK Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

Safewell provide proven high margin of safety solutions for the purification of compressed breathing air in accordance with EN12021:2014 and a range of International standards including Grade D, Pharmacopée Européenne; DIN ENISO 7396-1; BS4275; ANSI/CGA G.7.1; Z180, 1 M85; AS2299-1979; NZL5813.

Our ALG10 removes particles, oil, water vapour, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. The equipment is fully pneumatic and is ATEX certified for use in Zone 2 and Zone 1 hazardous area applications. A range of units is available from 2 – 4 operatives using air fed masks and full air suits. Safewell provides full sales, technical and aftermarket support.

If you are using compressed air in safety critical processes such as food and pharmaceutical manufacture, Safewell can also carry out Process Air Quality Testing. For more information, please view our ISO 8753-1:2010 Standards page.

Safewell have worked with offshore operators to study the quality of ambient air on offshore assets during operations. Short term changes in the quality of ambient air can cause a barely visible risk to offshore operatives.

By applying the latest gas sensing and data logging technology, Safewell have helped operators to categorise changes in the quality of ambient air and carry out a detailed analysis of air quality data to determine risk to personnel.

Some of the changes in ambient air quality may be short term but pose significant risks. Safewell helps its clients manage this risk effectively. Bespoke gas sensor kits are available on short and long term hire.