Blenkharn Environmental

A comprehensive range of specialist consultancy services is available.

For clinical waste management companies and other commercial organisations, this includes a comprehensive one-stop shop for performance evaluation, compliance and effluent monitoring, and biosafety training and assessment.

Services available include:

Analytical

• Comprehensive waste audit
• Environmental, occupational & healthcare microbiology
• Environmental monitoring & control
• Sharps (needlestick) injury
• Hygiene assessment
• Monitoring for bacterial and fungal contamination in air
• Dust and particulates measurement
• Air dispersal studies
• Air analysis; pollution control and gas measurement
• Air quality monitoring & clean room control
• Detection of latent blood
• OEL & emission studies
• Potable water
• Process and discharge water composition; compliance monitoring
  • volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
  • heavy metals
  • chemical oxygen demand (COD)
  • biological oxygen demand (BOD)
  • suspended solids
  • pH
• VOCs in air (recently upgraded to provide real-time assessment)
• Pollutant monitoring - formaldehyde, xylene, benzene etc
• Environmental monitoring & control
• Sterility testing & control
• Sterilisation validation and control
• Pollution monitoring and control
• Landfill assessment - clinical wastes
• Proof of process & process evaluation
• Site survey; audit; testing & analysis

Many additional analytical services not listed above can be performed as required. Call for details

Consultancy

• Clinical waste management & control; compliance monitoring
• Occupational hygiene
• SHEQ; hygiene & PPE assessments
• Training and assessment
• Audit & appraisal

• Safety & compliance evaluation

• Best practice guidelines - specialist advice to Local Authorities, and to healthcare and waste management sectors
• Bio-safety, training and evaluation
• Quality management
• Hand hygiene training
• Waste audit (detail)
• Safety evaluation; risk assessment; training;
  instruction manuals; SOPs
• Hospital, community and environmental infection control
• Specialised training programmes for Local Authorities
  - planning and delivering safe and effective waste management services|
  - basic biosafety & hygiene for waste handlers and supervisors
• Training provided as part of the DEFRA Local Environmental Skills scheme (http://www.localenvironmentskills.org)  
• Expert witness & litigation including personal injury and medical negligence
• Briefings; planning; licensing; registration; appeals
• Technology assessment; process control;
  product design & evaluation

• Technical writing

All services are individually tailored to client needs and are, as befits this high quality fully research-driven and science-led consultancy.

Please call or email for further details or to discuss your requirements