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    • Occupational environment measurement
    These services are designed to promote the physical well-being of the workers, prevent diseases, and provide comfortable working environments. The services in this category include health screening services for local residents provided by health care centers, special health screening, health care agency services, and occupational environment measurement services.
    The purpose of occupational environment measurement is, pursuant to Article 42 of the ISHA, to properly improve facilities and equipment as well as create a clean occupational environment through measurement and assessment of a worker’s exposure to hazardous elements such as noises, dusts, and chemicals resulting from the work.

    Eligible workplaces

    Workplaces with at least one full-time worker, regardless of size, that employs workers to handle any of the hazardous factors subject to occupational environment measurement [190 substances]

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    Eligible workplaces
    Hazardous factors subject to occupational environment measurement
    - Organic compounds [113 types]
    Benzene, toluene, normal hexane, TCE, DMF, etc.     		- Hazardous substances requiring permission [12 types]
    - Dichlorobenzidine, beryllium, asbestos, etc.
    - Metals [23 types]
    Copper, lead, mercury, aluminum, tin, oxidized steel, etc.     		- Metal processing [1 type]
    - Acids and alkalis [17 types]
    Nitric acid, acetic acid, sodium hydroxide, etc.     		- Physical factors [2 types]
    Noise, extreme heat
    - Gaseous substances [15 types]
    Chloride, ammonia, and sulfuric acid gas     		- Dusts [7 types]
    Mineral dusts, grain dusts, cotton dusts, etc.
     

    Frequency of measurement

    If a workplace is, or has been, subject to occupational environment measurement requirements on account of new construction, new process, or process change, the first measurement should be conducted within 30 days, and subsequent measurements should be conducted at least once every 6 months.