Beeston · COSHH / HSG258
Statutory thorough examination and testing of local exhaust ventilation for Beeston workshops and production sites, keeping fume and dust control compliant with COSHH and HSE guidance HSG258.
Beeston
Beeston is a Nottinghamshire town in Broxtowe, next to the University of Nottingham, and the home of the Boots global headquarters and its historic manufacturing campus.
The signature trade is pharmaceuticals and science - the pharmaceutical manufacturing and laboratories of the Boots campus, the advanced manufacturing and engineering, and the food manufacturing - across the Padge Road and Lilac Grove estates, with the bodyshops between them.
Wherever a Beeston process releases fume, dust, mist or vapour, COSHH puts the duty on you to control it at source, and the extraction that does so is LEV - subject to a thorough examination and test at least every fourteen months. We work across the range, from the Padge Road units down to the smallest Beeston workshop, measuring capture and face velocity and issuing a plain pass-or-remedial result with every hood tagged.
By sector
If a process captures fume, dust, mist or vapour at source, that capture system is LEV - and across Beeston and the wider Nottinghamshire it is your evidence under COSHH.
Dust, solvent-vapour and fume-cupboard extraction across the pharmaceutical manufacturing and research units of the Boots campus, the defining trade of the town, where process dust and vapour need capture at source under containment.
Machining, grinding and fume extraction across the advanced-manufacturing and engineering units, where metal dust and mist need capture proven.
Steam, dust and mist extraction across the food producers, where organic dust is both a health and a combustion risk.
On-torch extraction, fume arms and downdraught benches across the Padge Road and Lilac Grove units. Since the HSE's 2019 reclassification, all welding fume - mild steel included - is treated as carcinogenic.
Spray-booth and prep-bay extraction at Beeston bodyshops. Two-pack paints release isocyanates - the leading cause of occupational asthma - so booth airflow is examined to its design figure.
Fume-cupboard face-velocity testing for the University of Nottingham and the Queen's Medical Centre, to the containment their work demands.
On the ground in Beeston
We are out under Beeston's extraction every week. The proof that matters is the jobs, not a stock photo.
A pharmaceutical manufacturing hall in Beeston had a dust-extraction hood over a tablet-coating line failing its capture check because a damper in the branch had seized part-shut. We freed the damper, re-ran the face-velocity traverse at the hood and checked the branch flow. It failed at first on the low capture and passed once the damper was freed, the containment back at its design figure. The line handled active pharmaceutical ingredient, so the test was run under the site's containment and gowning controls.
The test
An HSG258 statutory LEV test goes well beyond a walk-round look. On a Beeston system it has to establish three things - that the plant and ductwork are sound, that the hoods still capture, and that the capture still meets the figure the system was designed around.
Ductwork, hoods, filters, fans and dampers checked for damage, blockage and leakage across the Padge Road units - the faults that quietly kill capture.
Face and capture velocities, static pressures and airflows measured at each hood with calibrated instruments - numbers, not opinion.
Readings compared to the system's commissioning figures, so drift from as-designed is caught before it becomes a failure on a Beeston line.
Where exposure is in question - a pharmaceutical manufacturing and laboratories process, say - sampling confirms whether control is actually protecting the people at the process.
The duty
The duty is written into COSHH Regulation 9: where LEV controls a hazardous substance, the employer must have it thoroughly examined and tested at least every fourteen months and keep the records for five years.
For most Beeston sites - from the Padge Road units to the smaller workshops - the fourteen-month clock is the one that bites: miss it and the system is non-compliant the day it lapses, whatever its condition. We examine, label each hood with its status and next-due date, and issue the report an HSE inspector or your insurer will ask to see. If something fails, you get the reading, the cause and the fix - not just a red sticker.
How it runs
Full visual and structural check of every hood, duct run, filter and fan across the Beeston site.
Calibrated velocity, pressure and airflow readings at each extraction point.
A COSHH-compliant report: results against benchmark, clear pass or fail, and plain-English actions for the Beeston duty-holder.
Each system tagged with status and next-due date, so compliance is visible on the Lilac Grove floor.
Questions
Under COSHH Regulation 9, most local exhaust ventilation needs a thorough examination and test at least every 14 months, with higher-risk processes more often. A pharmaceutical manufacturing and laboratories bay, an advanced manufacturing and engineering bench and a lab fume cupboard can each sit on a different interval - we set the right one for every system.
Pharmaceutical manufacturing and laboratories, advanced manufacturing and engineering, food manufacturing, welding and fabrication, vehicle body and paint, and the labs of the university and hospital - the trades clustered around Padge Road and Lilac Grove and across the wider Nottinghamshire.
Yes. We plan testing around production shifts at the Padge Road units, term-time access at the Beeston university labs, and normal hours at smaller workshops, so the examination never stops the line.
We record it as remedial and set out what is needed - airflow, ductwork, filtration or capture at the hood. You do the work and we re-test, and on a Padge Road production line we can usually fit the re-test around your shifts. We will not pass a system that does not control exposure.
Yes. Each hood is labelled with its status and next-due date, and you get the HSG258 report and system schematic for your COSHH file - the record an HSE inspector visiting a Padge Road unit will ask to see.
No. LEV testing is a statutory examination of fume and dust control to COSHH and HSG258, with capture and face-velocity readings; TR19 is kitchen grease and fire risk. We do both across Beeston, but a Padge Road fabrication shop and a High Road canopy are kept as the separate jobs they are.
A dated report to the HSG258 method, the readings taken, a pass or remedial outcome for each hood, and system labelling - the evidence a duty-holder at Padge Road or a smaller Beeston workshop needs for their COSHH file.
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