Our Services
Businesses have both a moral and legal duty to identify and control workplace risks, ensuring workers return home safe and well each day. It can be challenging to fully understand the hazards posed by specific tasks and work environments—from dust and airborne contaminants, noise, and asbestos, to biological risks such as mould.
SafeSphere Consulting helps workplaces quantify and manage these risks through our professional occupational hygiene services, including:
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Occupational Hygiene Consulting
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Licensed Asbestos Assessors (LAAs)
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Air & Noise monitoring and assessment
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Mould and Microbial Investigations
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Hazardous materials management plans, registers and safe work procedures
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Support for incident response and investigation
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Comprehensive workplace audits
Air Contaminants
Airborne contaminants can arise in many forms, depending on the tasks performed. Activities such as cutting, grinding, welding, burning, spraying, or mixing dry products can create airborne hazards that threaten workers’ respiratory health if not properly understood and managed.
Potential exposure risks include:
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Respirable and inhalable dusts
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Crystalline silica dust
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Welding fumes and heavy metals
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Diesel particulate matter, nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur oxides (SOx), carbon monoxide (CO)
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Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and isocyanates
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Other hazardous substances
Workplace Exposure Standards set the benchmark for acceptable worker exposure to these hazards which are enforced by regulatory authorities. Businesses must implement plans, procedures, and controls to protect workers and verify their effectiveness through ongoing monitoring and assessment under WHS Regulations.
SafeSphere Consulting offers specialist occupational hygiene services to help workplaces manage these risks end-to-end by:
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Identifying hazards through workplace audits
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Conducting personal monitoring to assess worker exposures
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Advising on effective controls, measuring effectiveness and developing SOPs
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Verifying success through targeted monitoring and review
Noise
Noise hazards can occur across many workplace tasks and environments. Activities such as operating machinery, using power tools, hammering, metal cutting, blasting, and other high-impact processes can generate harmful noise levels that may damage workers’ hearing if not properly understood and managed.
Potential exposure risks include:
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Continuous loud noise from fixed or mobile plant
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Impact or impulse noise from sudden bursts or collisions
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High-frequency noise from cutting and grinding
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Low-frequency noise from large engines or compressors
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Combined exposures from multiple sources
Workplace Exposure Standards set the benchmark for acceptable noise exposure levels. Businesses must implement plans, procedures, and controls to protect workers’ hearing, and verify their effectiveness through ongoing noise monitoring and assessment.
SafeSphere Consulting specialise in measuring and managing noise risks by:
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Conducting personal noise dosimetry to assess worker exposures
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Area noise surveys of plant and equipment and task measurements
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Advising on effective higher order controls, such as engineering solutions and administrative measures as well as appropriate PPE
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Verifying success of noise controls through follow-up monitoring and compliance reviews
Hazardous Building Materials
Under the NSW Work Health and Safety Regulation 2017, PCBUs are legally required to identify and manage risks from hazardous building materials. These materials, common in older buildings, can pose serious health risks when disturbed during maintenance, refurbishment, or demolition—and must be managed in accordance with WHS regulations and codes of practice.
Common HAZMATs include:
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Asbestos – Requires an asbestos register, management plan, and licensed removal if present.
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Lead-based paint – Lead risk work must be managed with specific controls to prevent exposure to dust or fumes.
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Synthetic Mineral Fibres (SMF) – Includes glass wool and ceramic fibres, if disturbed can release airborne fibres that must be risk assessed and controlled.
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Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) – Found in older electrical systems and sealants, are hazardous chemicals; exposure can cause chronic health effects.
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CCA treated timber – Cutting or sanding releases toxic wood dust.
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Mercury-containing devices – Present in some lighting and switches. Breakage can release vapour requiring immediate containment and control.
SafeSphere Consulting provide the following services:
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Licensed Asbestos Assessors (LAA's)
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Site inspections and material sampling
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Asbestos registers, hazardous materials registers and management plans
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Personal and static exposure monitoring
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Risk assessments and control plans
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Post-remediation visual and air clearances
SafeSphere Consulting provides the technical expertise to help your workplace meet its obligations—safely, effectively, and in regulatory compliance.
Asbestos
Asbestos hazards remains a concern in many workplaces, particularly during demolition, refurbishment, maintenance, and repair of older structures. Activities such as cutting, drilling, removing, or disturbing asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) can release airborne fibres that pose serious health risks if not properly understood and managed.
Potential exposure risks include:
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Friable asbestos fibres from damaged or deteriorating materials
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Dust generated during removal, encapsulation, or repair work
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Secondary contamination of tools, clothing, and adjacent work areas
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Disturbance of hidden ACMs during unexpected maintenance tasks
Strict regulations and Codes of Practice set the standards for managing asbestos risks and protecting workers and others from exposure. Businesses must have asbestos management plans, safe work procedures, and control measures in place, and verify their effectiveness through inspections and monitoring.
SafeSphere Consulting Licensed Asbestos Assessors (LAAs) offers specialist services to help workplaces manage asbestos risks:
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Identifying and documenting ACMs through asbestos surveys and registers
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Conducting visual clearances and air clearance monitoring with clearance certificate
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Performing boundary / control monitoring during ACM removal works
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Providing scope of works documents and asbestos management plans
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Planning effective controls and safe work procedures
Mould & Other Biological
Mould and bacterial contamination present distinct biological hazards in built environments. Each has unique causes and health risks, requiring accurate identification, assessment, and control strategies to keep workers and occupants safe.
Mould contamination
Mould growth typically results from moisture impact to vulnerable building materials. Leaks and escape of liquid, flooding, condensation, or inadequate ventilation causing moisture in the building envelope can lead to mould, when left unchecked, it can release airborne spores and mycotoxins that affect respiratory health, trigger asthma, and aggravate allergies—particularly in sensitive individuals.
SafeSphere Consulting specialise in:
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Building mould and moisture assessments through inspection, moisture and IR surveys
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Conducting air or surface spore contamination sampling and assessment, with NATA accredited laboratory analysis, to assess indoor environment, degraded conditions related to mould and potential for health risk
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Advise remediation strategies, contamination control and scope of remedial works
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Conducting post-remediation verification (PRV) to assess remedial success through clearance inspections and follow-up monitoring
Blackwater / Flood Contamination and E. coli
Blackwater refers to wastewater contaminated with sewage or other harmful biological materials. Events like sewage overflows, plumbing failures, or flooding with contaminated water can introduce bacteria such as E. coli, viruses, and parasites, posing acute infection risks to anyone in contact with affected areas.
SafeSphere Consulting assists workplaces by:
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Identifying and mapping affected areas through site inspections and microbial testing
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Assessing contamination levels and exposure risks to occupants
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Planning effective decontamination and recovery procedures
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Verifying cleanliness and safety through post-remediation testing and clearance assessments
Both mould and blackwater incidents demand prompt, evidence-based response to protect health and meet compliance obligations. SafeSphere Consulting provides specialist occupational hygiene services to help workplaces manage these risks end-to-end—through identification, assessment, planning, and verification.
