Peeling, bubbling paint on interior windowsill indicates long-standing window leaks which can lead to hidden mold problems inside the walls.

The High Country’s Solution to Environmental Health & Safety

Blue Ridge Industrial Hygiene, Inc.

(Quote from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency booklet, “A Brief Guide to Mold, Moisture, and Your Home.”)

Blue Ridge Industrial Hygiene, Inc. is the industrial hygiene consulting firm of Mary M. Cavanaugh, CIH.  I work full-time as an  industrial hygienist for Appalachian State University.

Because so many friends and neighbors — people without tons of money to pay for a big firm from Raleigh to come up and help them — were calling me for help, I decided to form a company so that I could provide High Country residents and businesses with professional, affordable industrial hygiene services.  I don’t have to “make a living” doing this work so I can keep my prices low.  I only accept a few clients at a time.

I do this work on nights and weekends so that it does not interfere with my full-time job at the university.  Thus you don’t have to pay an “after-hours premium” for me to come to your home or workplace after 5 p.m. or on the weekends, because those are my “regular” working hours!

I provide professional, unbiased, confidential expertise in most areas of industrial hygiene.  Click on “What We Do” in the menu at the left to see the kinds of work I do most often.

I am a full member of both internationally-recognized organizations for industrial hygiene: the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) and the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH).  I am also a member of the American Chemical Society’s Division of Chemical Health and Safety.

As a member of these organizations, I adhere to their strict codes of ethics.  That means I never work where there could be a “conflict of interest” — like testing for mold and telling you that you have  a mold problem, and then “fixing” the supposed problem for you or selling you a product to fix it ; or referring you to a company that gives me kickbacks.  And that means you will never have to wonder if I have a “hidden agenda” to “find” expensive problems for me to “fix.”

The High Country’s Solution to Environmental Health & Safety