ETHYLENE OXIDE (EtO) MONITORING SYSTEMS
As regulatory requirements and enforcement bear down on your facility, you need a reliable, accurate, and cost-effective way to monitor ethylene oxide. Why not partner with a world leader in toxic gas detection?
Only INTERSCAN CORPORATION offers a full range of monitoring instrumentation for ethylene oxide--from portable analyzers to multipoint systems--along with the industry`s best data acquisition, archiving, and reporting system--Arc-Max®.
Field proven in thousands of installations, Interscan EtO monitors offer you...
- Excellent sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy
- Ease of use and reliability
- Unmatched performance and peace of mind
You might already be using badges, but badges can`t protect your area with an instantaneous alarm, and even though they can provide exposure data, it`s incomplete. Badges give you only a ``single number`` of accumulated exposure, with no time history! What if your employees got a heavy exposure of EtO on certain days during a badge cycle, with no exposure on the rest of the days? The badge would still read ``normal.`` Thus, with badges, you are unable to track the effects of a particular incident.
You might have an older EtO monitoring system installed, that needs to be updated, since it is prone to false alarms, or is simply not sensitive enough to meet today`s standards.
You might have a perfectly fine EtO monitoring system installed, but you want the benefits of adding data acquisition, archiving, and reporting. High concentration alarms are only a part of the total picture! You should also keep track of long-term low level exposure--the basis of far too many lawsuits. Unless you have a documented record of employee exposure to EtO, if you`re sued, you`ll be scrambling for data, desperately trying to re-create the past. There`s no better way to keep these records than with Interscan`s Arc-Max®.
So, whatever your requirement might be, INTERSCAN is the only name you need to remember for ethylene oxide monitoring.
GETTING STARTED IN EtO MONITORING
The most important precept in ANY toxic gas monitoring application is protecting the employees. All decisions to determine the number and location of sampling points must be made with this in mind. Therefore, as a first priority, you must monitor where people are working.
Beyond that, consider...
- The sterilizers and aerators
- Drain areas
- Gas cylinder storage area
- Ventilation characteristics
- Any other leakage or exposure possibilities
After the number and location of sampling points has been determined, options can then be evaluated and specified. Based on a thorough review of your unique monitoring requirements, Interscan will propose a system that fits your budget and does the job.
As a general guideline, most systems contain 2-4 points of detection. A single point system would be deployed in either a very small Central Service department, or because of budgetary constraints, absolutely limiting the scope of the system to monitoring the work area only.
Interscan`s website www.gasdetection.com contains a wealth of information on the basics of toxic gas detection. A special section is devoted to ethylene oxide issues:
www.gasdetection.com/TECH/ethyle.html
