Bexhill-on-Sea · COSHH / HSG258
Statutory thorough examination and testing of local exhaust ventilation for Bexhill-on-Sea workshops and production sites, keeping fume and dust control compliant with COSHH and HSE guidance HSG258.
Bexhill-on-Sea
Bexhill-on-Sea is an East Sussex seaside town in Rother, around 44,000, home to the Modernist De La Warr Pavilion of 1935 and the birthplace of British motor racing in 1902.
The work is hospitality and light industry - the seaside catering, the light engineering and creative workshops, and the food production - across the Beeching Road and Bexhill Enterprise Park estates, with the bodyshops between them.
Every Bexhill-on-Sea process that gives off fume, dust, mist or vapour falls under COSHH, which requires the contamination held at source by local exhaust ventilation and that LEV thoroughly examined and tested at least every fourteen months. We test right across the site, from the Beeching Road plant to the single-bench Bexhill-on-Sea units, logging capture and face-velocity figures and returning a clear pass-or-remedial outcome with each hood identified and labelled.
By sector
A system that catches fume, dust, mist or vapour at the point it is released is LEV, and for Bexhill-on-Sea employers and others across East Sussex it is the record COSHH looks for first.
Grease-laden canopy and duct extraction across the seaside and town-centre kitchens, where the cooklines run hard through the season and need capture at source.
Weld-fume, spray-finishing and laser-fume extraction across the light-engineering and creative-industry workshops, where fume and vapour need capture proven.
Steam, flour-dust and mist extraction across the food and bakery producers, where organic dust is both a health and a combustion risk.
On-torch extraction, fume arms and downdraught benches across the Beeching Road and Bexhill Enterprise Park units. Since the HSE's 2019 reclassification, all welding fume - mild steel included - is treated as carcinogenic.
Spray-booth and prep-bay extraction at Bexhill 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 local college and Bexhill Hospital, to the containment their work demands.
On the ground in Bexhill-on-Sea
We are out under Bexhill-on-Sea's extraction every week. The proof that matters is the jobs, not a stock photo.
A creative-workshop unit on Beeching Road in Bexhill had a spray-finishing and laser-cutting extraction bench pulling weak because the collector filter had loaded and choked the flow. We measured the capture at the bench and checked the collector differential. It failed on the low capture and the vapour breakthrough, and we specified the remedial work. The bench used solvent finishes and laser fume, so vapour monitoring backed up the airflow test.
The test
An HSG258 statutory LEV test goes well beyond a walk-round look. On a Bexhill-on-Sea 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 Beeching 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 Bexhill-on-Sea line.
Where exposure is in question - a seaside and hospitality catering process, say - sampling confirms whether control is actually protecting the people at the process.
The duty
Under Regulation 9 of COSHH the obligation sits squarely with the employer - any LEV that controls a hazardous substance needs a thorough examination and test at least every fourteen months, and the records held for five years.
For the great majority of Bexhill-on-Sea sites, from the Beeching Road 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 Bexhill-on-Sea 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 Bexhill-on-Sea duty-holder.
Each system tagged with status and next-due date, so compliance is visible on the Bexhill Enterprise Park 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 seaside and hospitality catering bay, a light engineering and creative workshops bench and a lab fume cupboard can each sit on a different interval - we set the right one for every system.
Yes. A new spray booth or fume-arm install at a Bexhill-on-Sea 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.
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 Beeching Road or a smaller Bexhill-on-Sea workshop needs for their COSHH file.
Yes - the industrial estates and workshops around Beeching Road and Bexhill Enterprise Park, the university and hospital labs, and the wider East Sussex.
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 Beeching Road unit will ask to see.
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 Beeching Road production line we can usually fit the re-test around your shifts. We will not pass a system that does not control exposure.
Seaside and hospitality catering, light engineering and creative workshops, food production and bakery, welding and fabrication, vehicle body and paint, and the labs of the college and hospital - the trades clustered around Beeching Road and Bexhill Enterprise Park and across the wider East Sussex.
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