Certification, Performance Validation and Repair Services
Why Choose Keystone?
• Over 15 Years Experience: CESB Accredited, ME, IAFCA, CETA, CIH.
• We are Solution Oriented
• Fully Flexible Scheduling to work with YOUR schedule 24/7/365
• Helpful and Professional Staff whose goal is to keep you satisfied
• Online Database – at your fingertips 24/7/365 - tracks your certification history and allows you to download or print the results of our testing – any time you want to!
• Fully Staffed Office – to assist field personnel with service requests, materials ordering and scheduling
• We think “outside the box” – Your equipment impacts and is impacted by the environment it is in. Beyond the service, we have extensive expertise in Lab performance and design, biosafety, industrial H&S
Certification and Testing Services
•Cleanrooms/Operating Suites/Pharmacies
•BSL-3 and BSL-4 Laboratories
•Biosafety Cabinets (BSCs), Laminar Flow Work Stations (LFWs or LFWSs)
•Chemical Fume Hoods (CFHs)/Glove Boxes/Barrier Isolators
•ISO 14644 and USP 797 including full Bioaerosol, Particle Counts, and Air Flow Characteristics
•HEPA Filtered Industrial Air-Handling Systems
•HEPA Filtered Air Scrubbers, Negative Air Machines and Vacuums for ASB, Lead, Fiberglass, Mold, Nuclear
•ANSI/ASHRAE 110 Fume Hood Testing – the purpose of this standard is to specify a quantitative and qualitative test method for evaluating the fume containment of a laboratory fume hood.
•ANSI/AIHA Z9.5 Laboratory Performance Evaluation – the purpose of this standard is to establish minimum requirements and best practices for laboratory ventilation systems to protect the personnel from overexposure to harmful or potentially harmful airborne contaminants generated within the laboratory. It does not apply to comfort or energy considerations unless they have an effect on contaminant control ventilation.
Pharmacies and Drug Compounding Areas
• Environmental Engineering Audits and consultation services to help identify potential issues and give guidance on bringing compounding areas into compliance with USP 797
• Environmental Diagnostics: Particle count testing for total particulate contaminants in room air per ISO 14644 techniques and report of resulting ISO class; Room pressurization and air changes per hour
• Monitoring for viable microorganisms: Sampling for viable microorganisms in your air and on surfaces to help lab managers evaluate potential contamination issues over time
Factory Authorized Service Center for:
• LABCONCO
• The Baker Company
• NuAire
• CTG
• Germfree
• Thermo
Selecting the Right Specialist for your Product
Environmental Consulting
Eric C. McKee, M.E., CIEC, CIE, CMR, Certifier, is Vice President of Keystone. Eric is a CESB accredited Certified Indoor Environmental Consultant and has over 15 years extensive field knowledge and experience in building science and diagnosing indoor environmental issues. With a background in mechanical engineering, he practices a common sense, solution oriented, and scientific approach to indoor environmental investigations and laboratory design and performance. His company provides a diversity of expertise in indoor environmental consulting as well as certification services for biohazard control and Controlled Contaminant Environments. Eric and his company have been retained by federal, state and municipal governments, insurance providers, schools, property management firms, healthcare facilities, commercial clients, manufacturing and industrial plants, mass transportation facilities and residential clients throughout the United States and the Dominican Republic.
Certification Services
Russell Pittman, NSF Accredited Certifier, is Client Services Manager of Keystone. Russell is a trained and certified field certifier and indoor environmental inspector. Since 2004, Russell has managed Keystone’s client base in VA, NC and DC and is the primary point of contact for all your local certification requirements - from Biosafety Cabinets (BSCs) to laminar flow hoods (LFWs or LFWSs) to chemical fume hoods (or CFHs). Russell ensures that your field certification services are scheduled and performed by one of our certifiers in a timely manner, he coordinates shipping and analysis with laboratories when we collect environment samples for mold/fungi or bacterial (per USP 797) at your facility, maintains our in-house stock and supplies of spare parts and sample media, such as HEPA filters. New for 2007, Keystone's on-line database is managed by Russell and used by our field certifiers to log in BSC, LFH/LFWS, or CFH certification results, and Keystone's clients to view them. . Russell also heads up Clean room certification in accordance with ISO standard 14644 which include airborne partice count testing, HEPA filter challenging and differential pressure testing.
Biohazard Safety and Control
John Keene, Ph.D., CBSP, Chief Laboratory Design and Performance Consultant, is the president of Global Biohazard Technologies, Inc. Dr. Keene has provided consulting services and safety training to agencies including OSHA, EPA, NIH and CDC with regard to indoor air quality, laboratory safety and infection and chemical exposure control. He is a specialist in biomedical laboratory design and safety, public health and clinical microbiology. He has extensive experience as a microbiologist and Manager of Biosafety with Abbott Labs and also as a hospital epidemiologist. Dr. Keene has done work on biological warfare response, biohazard containment and ventilation for the National Institute of Health and is an affiliate professor at the Medical College of Virginia in Industrial Hygiene. In the year 2000, he held the distinguished office of National President of the American Biological Safety Association.
Industrial Hygiene
Burton Ogle, Ph.D., CIH, CSP, Chief Industrial Hygiene Consultant, is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Safety and Technology, West Carolina University. Dr. Ogle instructs graduate and undergraduate students in the areas of toxicology, industrial hygiene, ventilation, and occupational safety. He has extensive experience with establishing chemical and biological safety programs for hospital environments as well as maintaining institutional compliance with EPA and OSHA regulations and applicable accreditation standards such as JCAHO.
Organizations and Societies
Our staff and our consultants are active in the following professional organizations and societies:
• American Biological Safety Association
• American Board of Industrial Hygiene
• American Indoor Air Quality Council
• American Industrial Hygiene Association
• National Air Filtration Association
• Controlled Environment Testing Association
• Indoor Air Quality Association
• International Air Filtration Certifiers Association
Contact Us!
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