Bridlington · COSHH / HSG258
Statutory thorough examination and testing of local exhaust ventilation for Bridlington workshops and production sites, keeping fume and dust control compliant with COSHH and HSE guidance HSG258.
Bridlington
Bridlington is a Victorian seaside resort of around 35,000 on the East Riding of Yorkshire coast, its harbour the busiest shellfish port in England, watched over by Bridlington Priory and the cobbled Old Town.
The signature trade is seafood and leisure - the shellfish processing of the harbour, the seaside catering of the promenade, and the food manufacturing and caravan-and-leisure trade - across the Bessingby Industrial Estate and Carnaby Industrial Estate estates, with the bodyshops between them.
Wherever a Bridlington 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 Bessingby Industrial Estate units down to the smallest Bridlington workshop, measuring capture and face velocity and issuing a plain pass-or-remedial result with every hood tagged.
By sector
Where fume, dust, mist or vapour is pulled away at the point it is made, that is LEV - and for employers in Bridlington and across East Riding of Yorkshire it stands as their COSHH evidence.
Steam, salt-laden moisture and organic-odour extraction across the quayside grading, boiling and packing lines of the harbour, the defining trade of the town, where the cooking coppers and wash-down areas need capture at source.
Grease-laden canopy and fryer-flue extraction across the seafront restaurants, chip shops, pubs and hotels of the promenade, where high-turnover frying deposits heavy grease that is both a fire risk and a hygiene one.
Oven, mixing and spray-paint extraction across the bakery and cold-store units and the caravan and leisure-home manufacturers, where flour dust, cooking fume and paint mist need capture proven.
On-torch extraction, fume arms and downdraught benches across the Bessingby Industrial Estate and Carnaby units. Since the HSE's 2019 reclassification, all welding fume - mild steel included - is treated as carcinogenic.
Spray-booth and prep-bay extraction at Bridlington 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 Bridlington Hospital, to the containment their work demands.
On the ground in Bridlington
We are out under Bridlington's extraction every week. The proof that matters is the jobs, not a stock photo.
A shellfish-processing unit near Bridlington had a steam-and-cook extraction over a lobster-boiling line pulling weak, letting salt-laden steam and organic odour escape into the grading hall. We measured the capture at the copper hoods and checked the extract ducting for condensate loading. It failed on the low capture and the steam breakthrough, and we specified the remedial work. The line boiled at volume for export, so the humidity load on the ductwork was logged alongside the airflow.
The test
Under HSG258 a statutory LEV test is no visual once-over. For a Bridlington system it has to answer three things - whether the system is sound, whether it still draws at the hood, and whether that draw holds to what it was designed to deliver.
Ductwork, hoods, filters, fans and dampers checked for damage, blockage and leakage across the Bessingby 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 Bridlington line.
Where exposure is in question - a shellfish processing process, say - sampling confirms whether control is actually protecting the people at the process.
The duty
COSHH Regulation 9 puts a hard duty on the employer: any LEV controlling a hazardous substance must have a thorough examination and test at least every fourteen months, with records kept for five years.
For most Bridlington sites - from the Bessingby Industrial Estate 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 Bridlington 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 Bridlington duty-holder.
Each system tagged with status and next-due date, so compliance is visible on the Carnaby Industrial Estate 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 shellfish processing bay, a hospitality and seaside catering bench and a lab fume cupboard can each sit on a different interval - we set the right one for every system.
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 Bessingby Industrial Estate or a smaller Bridlington workshop needs for their COSHH file.
Yes. A new spray booth or fume-arm install at a Bridlington 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 Bessingby 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.
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 Bridlington, but a Bessingby Industrial Estate fabrication shop and a Prince Street canopy are kept as the separate jobs they are.
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 Bessingby Industrial Estate unit will ask to see.
Shellfish processing, hospitality and seaside catering, food manufacturing and leisure, welding and fabrication, vehicle body and paint, and the labs of the college and hospital - the trades clustered around Bessingby Industrial Estate and Carnaby Industrial Estate and across the wider East Riding of Yorkshire.
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