Air Sample Testing

All equipment in our IANZ accredited laboratory is calibrated to ensure accurate results during asbestos air sample testing.

All equipment that is used for air monitoring should be calibrated regularly to ensure that the value you are calibrating the equipment to is still correct. If equipment is used for air monitoring that hasn’t been calibrated then the fibre count result may be incorrect regardless of the laboratory analysing the sample.

Accurate Consulting Ltd adheres to ISO:17025:2005 standards and we hold IANZ accreditation for this standard

• Chemical Testing Laboratory – Airborne Fibre Count

Every piece of equipment that comes into the asbestos testing lab is calibrated using in-house methods, the equipment is then issued to the consultants who have been given thorough training to ensure that they are calibrating the equipment properly, on site, themselves. An up to date register is kept of each piece of equipment to ensure that they are calibrated either six monthly or annually in accordance with international standards.

Examples of the calibrations and checks performed by Accurate Consulting Ltd include:

• Flow rate calibrations for the air monitoring pumps using a rotameter.
• Rotameter calibrations for calibrating air monitors to the correct value shown on the rotameter using a soap film flow metre.
• Stopwatch calibrations for use during integrity tests, rotameter calibrations and air monitoring pump battery tests.