• Developing long-term strategic solutions to controlling occupational hazards by minimizing or eliminating identified hazards
• Integrating with other organizational programs such as environmental or quality to account for and consider the overall needs of the business
• Distributing the ownership, responsibility, and accountability of occupational health and safety throughout all levels of the organization

A successful IH/OH&S program will meet the above objectives and the following goals:

• Reduce recordable employee injuries and illness
• Improve employee morale
• Increase employee productivity
• Reduce employee absenteeism
• Increase teamwork

ARCADIS' IH and OH&S services cover the four main features of traditional industrial hygiene: anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of occupational hazards.  In addition, our expertise and services carry these features into the non-traditional IH areas of public and environmental health including indoor air quality and environmental hazards that may impact non-employees in occupational settings. 

ARCADIS' IH and occupational health and safety services include:

• Anticipation­
  •  OH&S management including management system development and implementation to proactively control or eliminate hazards
  • ­ Health and Safety (H&S) planning including program and compliance planning
  • ­ Process design with the purpose of eliminating potential hazards.
• Recognition
  • Exposure assessments for chemical, physical, biological, and ergonomic hazards
  • Job hazard analysis to understand the hazards that a worker or visitor may be exposed to
  • Risk analysis to prioritize risks that create the biggest hazards to employees and liabilities to the company
  • Compliance and material reviews to ensure that applicable requirements are met or exceeded
• Evaluation
  • ­ Exposure monitoring for hazards including: chemical constituents, noise, heat, cold, vibration, radiation, and ergonomic
  • H&S compliance audits to ensure applicable requirements are being met.  Cause analysis of issues to systematically and programmatically minimize or eliminate the hazard
  • Workplace surveys to qualitatively measure the level of hazard 
•  Control
  • Engineering control design and implementation including noise abatement, ventilation systems, and equipment modifications
  • OH&S management systems following ISO 14001 or OHSAS 18001
  • Employee education and training to meet compliance requirements, enhance the knowledge of existing staff, or knowledge sharing
  • Compliance program development to meet the OSHA and state occupational health requirements