Eurofins for safety at work

A conference was held at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) at the end of April entitled “Current issues in safety at work – Experiences, data and tasks”. Staff members of the Environmental Division at Eurofins Analytical Services have been contributing to the post-graduate training programmes of BME as lecturers, but at this time we were present at the event as sponsors and exhibitors just as well.

Workers suffering injuries, becoming disabled or died in fatalities during work are remembered on the memorial day of those injured or died in accidents at work on 28 April. One day before the memorial day one of the fortresses of domestic research and development in safety and health at work, that is the Engineering Post Graduate Training Centre of BME organised a conference and exhibition. Sándor Czomba, secretary of state in charge of employment policy at the Ministry of Economic Development (GFM) presented a speech at the conference, highlighting that, albeit the number of people who died in occupational fatalities declined in Hungary last year, yet 60 persons suffer injuries each day and five people die in every five days while at work.

Eurofins Analytical Services Hungary Ltd. (as the legal successor of the 30 years old WESSLING Hungary Ltd.) is at the forefront of safety investigations at the workplace: our environmental division accomplished untold number of air space, noise, vibration and lighting measurements, as pollutants evaporating from furniture and adhesives are also tested regularly and Biological Exposure Indices (BEM) are also monitored from the perspective of the health conditions of employees and the chemical safety of workplaces.

Additionally, specialists of the Environmental Division of Eurofins, Zoltán Filep and Tamás Bordás run a special course in the post-graduate curriculum of BME entitled Examination methods of physical and chemical factors of aetiology for the safety professionals coming from different walks of life. The serious workmanship and instrumental techniques required for the laboratory measurements they encounter with on a daily basis during their work and how are they conducted are presented to them.

The legal successor to WESSLING Hungary Ltd., i.e. Eurofins Analytical Services Hungary Ltd. was also present at the event as the sponsor of the conference and the exhibition and our stand provided information to all interested parties about the services our laboratory offers and the results it has achieved. Now as a member of the single largest network of laboratories worldwide, we continue to be at the disposal of our partners with the well accustomed high standard work and credible results, as well as a continuously expanding range of the services offered.