Beverley · COSHH / HSG258
Statutory thorough examination and testing of local exhaust ventilation for Beverley workshops and production sites, keeping fume and dust control compliant with COSHH and HSE guidance HSG258.
Beverley
Beverley is the historic county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire, around 30,000, home to the magnificent Beverley Minster, the medieval North Bar gate and Beverley Racecourse.
The work is engineering and food - the engineering and advanced manufacturing of the town's wagon-works heritage, the food and drink manufacturing, and the fabrication - across the Grovehill Industrial Estate and Swinemoor Lane estates, with the bodyshops between them.
Each of those Beverley processes throws fume, dust, mist or vapour into the workplace air, and COSHH demands it is captured at source - that capture system is local exhaust ventilation, and it must be thoroughly examined and tested at least every fourteen months. We cover the lot, from the Grovehill Industrial Estate units to the one-bench Beverley workshops, taking capture and face-velocity readings and leaving a clear pass or remedial verdict with the hoods labelled.
By sector
Any system that draws fume, dust, mist or vapour off at source counts as LEV, and across Beverley and the rest of East Riding of Yorkshire it is the evidence COSHH expects you to hold.
Machining, grinding and weld-fume extraction across the engineering and advanced-manufacturing units, a trade rooted in the town's wagon-works heritage, where metal dust and fume need capture at source.
Steam, dust and mist extraction across the food and drink producers, where organic dust is both a health and a combustion risk.
Grinding, weld-fume and paint extraction across the metal-fabrication units, where metal dust and fume need capture proven.
On-torch extraction, fume arms and downdraught benches across the Grovehill Industrial Estate and Swinemoor Lane units. Since the HSE's 2019 reclassification, all welding fume - mild steel included - is treated as carcinogenic.
Spray-booth and prep-bay extraction at Beverley 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 East Riding College and the East Riding Community Hospital, to the containment their work demands.
On the ground in Beverley
We are out under Beverley's extraction every week. The proof that matters is the jobs, not a stock photo.
An engineering works on Grovehill Industrial Estate in Beverley had a weld-fume extraction arm on a fabrication bay drooping short of the work because its internal spine had cracked. We clamped the arm to hold position, measured the capture at the tip and logged the mechanical fault. It passed on the airflow but failed on the arm's positioning integrity, so the hood could not be held over the weld. Since the HSE reclassified all welding fume as carcinogenic in 2019, on-torch capture was checked alongside the arm.
The test
A statutory LEV test to HSG258 is far more than a look round. On a Beverley system it settles three questions: is the ductwork and plant intact, does it still capture at the hood, and does that capture still match the design.
Ductwork, hoods, filters, fans and dampers checked for damage, blockage and leakage across the Grovehill Industrial Estate 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 Beverley line.
Where exposure is in question - an engineering and advanced manufacturing process, say - sampling confirms whether control is actually protecting the people at the process.
The duty
COSHH Regulation 9 makes it plain: any LEV controlling exposure to a hazardous substance has to be thoroughly examined and tested at intervals no greater than fourteen months, and the resulting records kept for at least five years.
For the great majority of Beverley sites, from the Grovehill Industrial Estate units to the one-man workshops, the fourteen-month deadline is what catches people out: once it passes the system is non-compliant regardless of its actual state. We carry out the examination, label every hood with its status and next-due date, and issue the report an HSE inspector or your insurer expects to see - and if a point fails, you get the number, the cause and the fix rather than a bare fail.
How it runs
Full visual and structural check of every hood, duct run, filter and fan across the Beverley 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 Beverley duty-holder.
Each system tagged with status and next-due date, so compliance is visible on the Swinemoor Lane 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. An engineering and advanced manufacturing bay, a food and drink manufacturing bench and a lab fume cupboard can each sit on a different interval - we set the right one for every system.
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 Grovehill Industrial Estate unit will ask to see.
Yes. A new spray booth or fume-arm install at a Beverley workshop needs a commissioning test to prove it performs to its design figures before it goes into service - we measure it and document the baseline the 14-month clock then runs from.
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 Grovehill Industrial Estate production line we can usually fit the re-test around your shifts. We will not pass a system that does not control exposure.
Engineering and advanced manufacturing, food and drink manufacturing, metal fabrication, welding and fabrication, vehicle body and paint, and the labs of the college and hospital - the trades clustered around Grovehill Industrial Estate and Swinemoor Lane and across the wider East Riding of Yorkshire.
Yes - the industrial estates and workshops around Grovehill Industrial Estate and Swinemoor Lane, the university and hospital labs, and the wider East Riding of Yorkshire.
Yes. We plan testing around production shifts at the Grovehill Industrial Estate units, term-time access at the Beverley university labs, and normal hours at smaller workshops, so the examination never stops the line.
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