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AER Control Systems Can Help You Comply with
OSHA’s Hexavalent Chromium Standard

NEW HAVEN, CT; FEB. 2010 — AER Control Systems offers several products that will help you meet OSHA’s Hexavalent Chromium standard.

The deadline for compliance is May 30, 2010. After this date if an OSHA inspector finds that you are out of compliance, then you could be issued a fine.

OSHA’s maximum exposure level for Hexavalent Chromium is 5 micrograms per cubic meter in an eight-hour time period. This is where AER Control Systems can help.

All of AER Control Systems' products will meet the OSHA standard. In particular, for the Welding and Grinding industries, the Small Portable Cartridge (SPC) series has been very popular. The AER Powered Downdraft Bench (APB) is a great choice if a table is required for welding or grinding on stainless steel or chrome metal parts. If your parts are very large, then the AER Control Systems Powered Booth Module (PBM) is a perfect choice, as it is designed to be the back wall of a booth, pulling the hexavalent chromium fumes or grinding dust away from the operator’s breathing zone.

AER Control Systems also offers the ceiling-hung Horizontal Cartridge Filter (HCF) collector, the free-standing Vertical Cartridge (VCF) collector, and the larger Vertical Cartridge Downflow (VCDF) collector. These three types of collectors can be ducted to Extraction Arms (EA Series) or to a variety of capture hoods, an ideal solution for robotic welding machines such as plasma or laser-cutting tables.

AER Control Systems' units comply with the OSHA Hexavalent Chromium standard by offering the strongest blowers to draw fumes or dust into the inlet of the filtration unit. Then the unit uses efficient MERV 15 NANO flame-retardant cartridge filters rated for 99.999% at 0.5 microns. Welding fumes can typically be in the size range of 0.3 to 0.7 microns, so in addition to the NANO cartridge filter AER Control Systems recommends a secondary backup safety HEPA filter which has a guaranteed efficiency of 99.97% at 0.3 microns.

If you have any questions or concerns on how to meet the OSHA Hexavalent Chromium Standard, please give AER Control Systems a call at 866-265-2372 to speak with an experienced applications engineer or an independent sales representative.

For more information on the new OSHA standards, visit www.osha.gov. For more information regarding AER Control Systems' complete line of OSHA-compliant units, contact AER Control Systems, 90 River Street, New Haven, CT 06513, tel. 203-772-4700, toll-free 866-265-2372, fax: 203-772-0020, or e-mail mail@aercontrolsystems.com.