🇵🇱 SOWIX Sp. z o.o. PL
Environment
SOWIX Sp. z o.o. is a laboratory accredited by PCA under number AB 1024 (Łuków, Poland). Its accreditation scope covers 47 test methods in the following areas: Environment. Test objects include: Workplace environment - air, – emergency lighting, Workplace environment - indoor electric lighting, Workplace environment - air - air samples collected on sorbent tubes.
At a glance
- Accreditation number: PCA AB 1024
- Methods in scope: 47
- Types of test objects: 14
- City: Łuków, Poland
- Accreditation number
- AB 1024
- Accreditation body
- PCA
- Address
- SOWIX Laboratorium Ochrony Środowiska Pracy, ul. Żeromskiego 4 A, 21-400 Łuków
- City
- Łuków, Poland
What this laboratory tests (14)
- Workplace environment - air — 14 methods
- – emergency lighting — 7 methods
- Workplace environment - indoor electric lighting — 4 methods
- Workplace environment - air - air samples collected on sorbent tubes — 3 methods
- General environment – noise from installations, equipment and industrial plants — 2 methods
- Rooms in residential, collective residence and public utility buildings – noise — 2 methods
- Workplace environment - air - air samples collected into absorbing solution — 2 methods
- Workplace environment - cold microclimate — 2 methods
- Workplace environment - hand-arm vibration — 2 methods
- Workplace environment - hot microclimate — 2 methods
- Workplace environment - moderate microclimate — 2 methods
- Workplace environment - noise — 2 methods
- Workplace environment - whole-body vibration — 2 methods
- Workplace environment — 1 method
Accreditation scope — test methods (47)
| No. | Test object | Methodology / Parameters | Technique | Reference document | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test methods | |||||
| 1 | Workplace environment - air | Sampling for occupational exposure assessment to: - dust agents inhalable fraction respirable fraction Personal dosimetry method | PN-Z-04008-7:2002+Az1:2004 | ||
| 2 | Workplace environment - air | Sampling for occupational exposure assessment to: - organic substances, - inorganic substances, including inhalable fraction respirable fraction - metals and their compounds, including inhalable fraction respirable fraction Personal dosimetry method Stationary method | |||
| 3 | Workplace environment - air | Exposure index (calculated) | |||
| 4 | Workplace environment - air | Concentration of harmful dust agents – inhalable fraction: - Apatites and phosphorites - Portland cement - Titanium dioxide - Natural graphite - Synthetic graphite - Kaolin - Amorphous and synthetic silica: - Wood dust - Flour dust - Dusts not classified according to toxicity - Organic dusts of animal and plant origin except wood and flour dust - Calcium sulphate (VI) (gypsum) - Carbon black - Talc - Coal (hard, brown) - Magnesium calcium carbonate (dolomite) - Silicon carbide, non-fibrous Range: (0,25 - 17,0) mg/m3 Gravimetric method | PN-Z-04507:2022-05 PN-Z-04507:2022-05/Ap1:2022-08 | ||
| 5 | Workplace environment - air | Concentration of harmful dust agents – respirable fraction: - Apatites and phosphorites - Portland cement - Natural graphite - Amorphous and synthetic silica: - Organic dusts of animal and plant origin except wood and flour dust - Talc - Coal (hard, brown) Range: (0,10 - 11,34) mg/m3 Gravimetric method | PN-Z-04508:2022-05 PN-Z-04508:2022-05/Ap1:2022-08 | ||
| 6 | Workplace environment - air | Concentration of nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide Range: NO (0,38 - 24,75) mg/m3 (0,31 - 19,80) ppm NO2 (0,09 - 38,14) mg/m3 (0,05 - 19,97) ppm CO (2,32 - 116) mg/m3 (2,0 - 100) ppm Electrochemical method | PB P-03 wydanie 6 z dnia 15.11.2024 r. | ||
| 7 | Workplace environment - air | Ammonia concentration Range: (1,5 - 60) mg/m3 Spectrophotometric method | PN-Z-04041:1971 | ||
| 8 | Workplace environment - air | Formaldehyde concentration Range: (0,08 - 13) mg/m3 Spectrophotometric method | PN-Z-04045-02:1976 | ||
| 9 | Workplace environment - air | Concentration/content of lead and its inorganic compounds, calculated as Pb – inhalable fraction | PN-Z-04487:2017-10 | ||
| 10 | Workplace environment - air | Range: (0,003 - 0,14) mg/m3 | |||
| 11 | Workplace environment - air | (0,002 - 0,1) mg in the sample | |||
| 12 | Workplace environment - air | Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) | |||
| 13 | Workplace environment - air | Concentration/content of iron oxides calculated as Fe iron(III) oxide, iron(II) oxide, triiron tetraoxide – inhalable fraction – respirable fraction Range: (0,07 - 21,9) mg/m3 (0,05 - 15,0) mg in the sample Flame atomic absorption spectrometry method (FAAS) | PN-Z-04469:2015-10 PB P-06, wydanie nr 1 z dnia 20.11.2019 r. | ||
| 14 | Workplace environment - air - air samples collected on sorbent tubes | Concentration / content of organic compounds Range: - acetone (12,6 - 1516,7) mg/m3 (0,45 - 9,10) mg in the sample - butan-2-one (8,1 - 1015,7 mg/m3 (0,29 - 6,09) mg in the sample - cyclohexanone (0,7 - 82,6) mg/m3 (0,025 - 2,97) mg in the sample - ethanol (32,8 - 1991,3) mg/m3 (1,18 - 11,95) mg in the sample - butan-1-ol (1,1 - 135,0) mg/m3 (0,04 - 4,87) mg in the sample - propan-2-ol (16,7 - 1881,3) mg/m3 (0,60 - 11,29) mg in the sample - 2-methylpropan-1-ol (1,8 - 218) mg/m3 (0,066 - 7,85) mg in the sample - 2-ethoxyethanol (0,2 - 21,8) mg/m3 (0,007 - 0,79) mg in the sample - 2-butoxyethanol (1,8 - 212,8) mg/m3 (0,06 - 7,66) mg in the sample - ethyl acetate (18,7 - 1504,0) mg/m3 (0,67 - 9,02) mg in the sample - butyl acetate (5,2 - 1024,3) mg/m3 (0,19 - 6,15) mg in the sample - pentane (240,3 - 2371,5) mg/m3 (8,65 - 14,23) mg in the sample - hexane (1,2 - 145) mg/m3 (0,04 - 5,22) mg in the sample - benzene (0,12 - 14,72) mg/m3 (0,004 - 0,53) mg in the sample - toluene (2,2 - 265,6) mg/m3 (0,08 - 9,56) mg in the sample - xylene - mixture of isomers (1,2-, 1,3-, 1,4-): (1,7 - 204,5) mg/m3 (0,06 - 7,36) mg in the sample Gas chromatography with flame ionisation detection (GC-FID) | PB P-05 wydanie 4 z dnia 21.01.2021 r. | ||
| 15 | Workplace environment - air - air samples collected on sorbent tubes | Concentration / content of organic compounds Range: - trimethylbenzene – mixture of isomers (1,2,3-, 1,2,4-, 1,3,5-) (1,6 - 191,3) mg/m3 (0,06 - 6,89) mg in the sample - ethylbenzene (3,4 - 1047,0) mg/m3 (0,12 - 6,28) mg in the sample - styrene (1,0 - 114) mg/m3 (0,03 - 4,11) mg in the sample - tetrachloroethene (1,7 - 204,4) mg/m3 (0,06 - 7,36) mg in the sample Gas chromatography with flame ionisation detection (GC-FID) | PB P-05 wydanie 4 z dnia 21.01.2021 r. | ||
| 16 | Workplace environment - air - air samples collected on sorbent tubes | Concentration / content of 1,2-Dichloroethane Range: (0,8 - 16,4) mg/m3 (0,0098 - 0,1968) mg in the sample Gas chromatography with flame ionisation detection (GC-FID) | Podstawy i Metody Oceny Środowiska Pracy 2018, nr 2 (96), str. 133-143 | ||
| 17 | Workplace environment - air | Concentration/content of crystalline silica (quartz and cristobalite) - respirable fraction Range: (0,006 - 0,25) mg/m3 (0,005 - 0,2) mg in the sample Fourier transform infrared spectrometry method (FT- IR) | Podstawy i Metody Oceny Środowiska Pracy 2012, 4 (74), str. 117-130 | ||
| 18 | Workplace environment - air - air samples collected into absorbing solution | Concentration / content of nitrogen monoxide Range: (0,2 - 17,8) mg/m3 (0,1 - 8) µg in the sample (0,16 - 14,30) ppm Spectrophotometric method | PN-Z-04009-11:2008 | ||
| 19 | Workplace environment - air - air samples collected into absorbing solution | Concentration / content of nitrogen dioxide Range: (0,06 - 4,62) mg/m3 (0,1 - 8) µg in the sample (0,03 - 2,42) ppm Spectrophotometric method | |||
| 20 | Workplace environment - noise | A-weighted equivalent sound level Range: (50 - 120) dB, A-weighted maximum sound level Range: (50 - 125) dB, C-weighted peak sound level Range: (70 - 140) dB Direct measurement method | PN-N-01307:1994 PN-EN ISO 9612:2011 z wyłączeniem metody obejmującej strategię 2 i 3 – pkt. 10 i 11 | ||
| 21 | Workplace environment - noise | Noise exposure level referred to: - the 8-hour daily working time - the average weekly working time (calculated) | |||
| 22 | Workplace environment - hot microclimate | Air temperature Range: (10 - 60) °C Blackened globe temperature Range: (10 - 60) °C Natural wet bulb temperature Range: (10 - 60) °C Direct measurement method | PN-EN ISO 7243:2018-01 | ||
| 23 | Workplace environment - hot microclimate | WBGT, WBGTeff index (calculated) | |||
| 24 | Workplace environment - cold microclimate | Air temperature Range: (-30 - 10) °C Blackened globe temperature Range: (-30 - 10) °C Air humidity Range: (20 - 90) % Air velocity Range: (0,15 - 5,00) m/s Direct measurement method | PN-EN ISO 11079:2008 | ||
| 25 | Workplace environment - cold microclimate | IREQmin index IREQneutral index twc index (calculated) | |||
| 26 | Workplace environment - moderate microclimate | Air temperature Range: (10 - 30) °C Blackened globe temperature Range: (10 - 40) °C Air humidity Range: (20 - 90) % Air velocity Range: (0,15 - 1,00) m/s Direct measurement method | PN-EN ISO 7730:2006 | ||
| 27 | Workplace environment - moderate microclimate | PMV index PPD index (calculated) | |||
| 28 | Workplace environment - indoor electric lighting | Illuminance, Range: (5 - 5000) lx | PN-83/E-04040.03 | ||
| 29 | Workplace environment - indoor electric lighting | Direct measurement method | |||
| 30 | Workplace environment - indoor electric lighting | Illuminance uniformity | |||
| 31 | Workplace environment - indoor electric lighting | (calculated) | |||
| 32 | Workplace environment | Illuminance | PN-EN 1838:2013-11 z wyłączeniem pkt. 4.2.3 - 4.2.7 | ||
| 33 | – emergency lighting | Range: (0,5 - 500) lx | |||
| 34 | – emergency lighting | Direct measurement method | |||
| 35 | – emergency lighting | Stosunek minimalnego do | |||
| 36 | – emergency lighting | maximum illuminance | |||
| 37 | – emergency lighting | (calculated) | |||
| 38 | – emergency lighting | Uniformity of lighting for the area | |||
| 39 | – emergency lighting | high risk | |||
| 40 | Workplace environment - whole-body vibration | Frequency-weighted effective vibration acceleration Range: (0,02 - 100) m/s2 Direct measurement method | PN-EN 14253+A1:2011 | ||
| 41 | Workplace environment - whole-body vibration | Daily exposure, expressed as the energy-equivalent value for 8 hours of action of the r.m.s. frequency-corrected vibration acceleration dominant among the vibration accelerations determined for three directional components taking into account the appropriate factors (1.4awx, 1.4awy, awz) Exposure lasting 30 minutes or less, expressed as the r.m.s. frequency-weighted vibration acceleration dominant among the vibration accelerations determined for three directional components taking into account the appropriate factors (1.4awx, 1.4awy, awz) (calculated) | |||
| 42 | Workplace environment - hand-arm vibration | RMS frequency-weighted vibration acceleration Range: (0,06 - 100) m/s2 Direct measurement method | PN-EN ISO 5349-1:2004 PN-EN ISO 5349-2:2004 PN-EN ISO 5349-2:2004+A1:2015-11 | ||
| 43 | Workplace environment - hand-arm vibration | Daily exposure, expressed as the energy equivalent for 8 hours of action of the vector sum of r.m.s. frequency-corrected vibration accelerations, determined for three directional components (ahwx, ahwy, ahwz) Exposure lasting 30 minutes and less, expressed as the vector sum of r.m.s. frequency-weighted vibration accelerations determined for the three directional components (ahwx, ahwy, ahwz) (calculated) | |||
| 44 | General environment – noise from installations, equipment and industrial plants | A-weighted equivalent sound level Range: (25,0 - 135,0) dB Direct measurement method | nr 7 | enia Ministra Klimatu i Środowiska z dnia 07.09.2021 r. (t. j. Dz.U. 2023 poz. 1706) z wyłączeniem pkt. E.II.1 i F | ||
| 45 | General environment – noise from installations, equipment and industrial plants | A-weighted equivalent sound pressure level for the reference time T expressed by the indicators LAeqD and LAeqN (calculated) | |||
| 46 | Rooms in residential, collective residence and public utility buildings – noise | A-weighted equivalent sound level A-weighted maximum sound level Range: (25,0 - 135,0) dB Direct measurement method | PN-87/B-02156 | ||
| 47 | Rooms in residential, collective residence and public utility buildings – noise | A-weighted equivalent sound level for reference time T (calculated) | |||
Reference standards (23)
PB P-03 wydanie 6 z dnia 15.11.2024 r.
PB P-05 wydanie 4 z dnia 21.01.2021 r.
PN-83/E-04040.03
PN-87/B-02156
PN-EN 14253+A1:2011
PN-EN 1838:2013-11 z wyłączeniem pkt. 4.2.3 - 4.2.7
PN-EN ISO 11079:2008
PN-EN ISO 5349-1:2004 PN-EN ISO 5349-2:2004 PN-EN ISO 5349-2:2004+A1:2015-11
PN-EN ISO 7243:2018-01
PN-EN ISO 7730:2006
PN-N-01307:1994 PN-EN ISO 9612:2011 z wyłączeniem metody obejmującej strategię 2 i 3 – pkt. 10 i 11
PN-Z-04008-7:2002+Az1:2004
PN-Z-04009-11:2008
PN-Z-04041:1971
PN-Z-04045-02:1976
PN-Z-04469:2015-10 PB P-06, wydanie nr 1 z dnia 20.11.2019 r.
PN-Z-04487:2017-10
PN-Z-04507:2022-05 PN-Z-04507:2022-05/Ap1:2022-08
PN-Z-04508:2022-05 PN-Z-04508:2022-05/Ap1:2022-08
Podstawy i Metody Oceny Środowiska Pracy 2012, 4 (74), str. 117-130
Podstawy i Metody Oceny Środowiska Pracy 2018, nr 2 (96), str. 133-143
enia Ministra Klimatu i Środowiska z dnia 07.09.2021 r. (t. j. Dz.U. 2023 poz. 1706) z wyłączeniem pkt. E.II.1 i F
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