Occupational Hygiene and Health Laboratory

The Occupational Hygiene Laboratory is part of the National Agricultural Industrial Hygiene Laboratory (NAIHL) of the Canadian Centre for Rural and Agricultural Health.  There are two laboratories that form the OHH laboratory.  The dry laboratory located in 1331 E-wing Health Sciences.  This laboratory houses the industrial hygiene monitoring equipment and accessories.  The wet laboratory located in 2D10 Health Sciences houses the activities for undertaking laboratory analysis of collected samples.  The OHH facilitates both field work and processing of field samples.  The laboratories are equipped with state-of-the-art sample collection and analysis equipment appropriate for assessing a vast array of physical, chemical and biological exposures.

Our laboratory focuses on occupational hygiene which maintains workplace health and safety by identifying, evaluating, and controlling exposure to chemical, physical, ergonomic and biological hazards to reduce stresses on the worker and implement control measures that will reduce the incidences of impaired health and sickness in agriculture and other rural based industries and populations.

• Dry Laboratory Equipment List
• Dry Lab Equipment Rental Fees
• ddPCR Consumables Fees
• 2D10 Equipment User Fees