Sound Advice Safety & Health Ltd
49 Melford Court,
Hardwick Grange,
Woolston,
Warrington,
Cheshire.
WA1 4RZ
Telephone: 01925 838350
Fax: 01925 838351
Email: office@soundadviceltd.co.uk
49 Melford Court,
Hardwick Grange,
Woolston,
Warrington,
Cheshire.
WA1 4RZ
Telephone: 01925 838350
Fax: 01925 838351
Email: office@soundadviceltd.co.uk
On-Site Health Surveillance
Occupational Health Services
Our Services Include:
- New starter work health assessments (was pre-employment questionnaire)
- Sickness absence management
- Skin Checks (Dermatitis)
- Night worker medicals
- Lone worker health assessments
- Fork lift truck (FLT) medicals
- Management referrals
- Stress management
- Hand arm vibration syndrome
(HAVS) clinical assessments
How our Lungs Work
Our lungs are amazing!
Did you know that:
- Our lungs are about the size of a pair of footballs
- The surface area of the lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court
- By the time a person reaches 70 years old, they will have taken at least 600 million breaths
- The lungs are the largest organ in the body and the only internal organ exposed to the external environment
How our lungs work:
- To breathe in we use our muscles (the muscles around our ribs and the diaphragm). The diaphragm tightens and flattens, allowing air to be sucked in to the lungs. To breathe out all of these muscles relax naturally letting the air out.
- The air then passes through the throat into the trachea (the wind pipe).
- The trachea then splits into two, the left and the right bronchial tubes. Like the branches of a tree the bronchial tube then splits again and again becoming narrower and narrower.
- The smallest airways then end as the alveoli which are small thin air sacs clustered like bunches of grapes. These alveoli are surrounded by tiny blood vessels (capillaries).
- Oxygen moves over the walls of the alveoli into the blood stream (it is picked up by the haemoglobin) and is carried around the rest of the body
- At the same time carbon dioxide (waste gas) is returned through the alveoli into the lungs and is breathed out.
Contact us now on 01925 838350 and speak to one of our consultants for further advice on your company's needs.
Tel: (01925) 838350 - Fax: (01925) 838351 - Email: office@soundadviceltd.co.uk