Ventilation Control

Control Hire specialise in construction safety through Ventilation Control solutions, with a focus on maintaining the correct air quality on site.

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Controlling Ventilation

Poor air quality is a significant risk to construction worker health and safety. Addressing air quality is crucial, as low ventilation of contaminated air can have immediate and long-term health effects, which are sometimes fatal. Without a safe ventilation solution on site, your workers could experience anything from dizziness and nausea to lung disease, heart disease and cancer.

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Our Ventilation Control Equipment

At Control Hire, we have a range of both Axial fans and Centrifugal fans tailored to address ventilation across your site, keeping your construction workers safe. Both types of fans are adaptable and have been engineered for use in confined space work, inclusive of pits, tunnels, drains and underground areas.

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Ventilation Control on Site

Every day, a diverse range of construction operations produce airborne risks, reducing the safety of your site. Dangerous dust and gases can be inhaled by construction workers if they are not regulated, causing short-term discomfort and laying the groundwork for long-term health problems. To eliminate dust and have circulated air in the workplace, an efficient ventilation system must be used.

Ventilation Related Health Risks

Poor air quality has a wide range of effects depending on exposure length, contaminant type, and contaminant concentration. Workers could suffer from dizziness, exhaustion, and nausea, as well as lung disease, heart disease, and cancer, if there isn’t an appropriate ventilation system in place on the job. Poor air quality can even lead to death in the most extreme cases.

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Control Hire designed a ventilation and filtration system for a client's basement shotcreting works, sectioning the basement, sweeping clean air across the work zone and fitting each worker with a personal dust monitor to prove exposure was controlled.

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