Burnley · COSHH / HSG258
Statutory thorough examination and testing of local exhaust ventilation for Burnley workshops and production sites, keeping fume and dust control compliant with COSHH and HSE guidance HSG258.
Burnley
Burnley is a Lancashire mill town of around 95,000 on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, with a strong aerospace cluster and the cotton-weaving heritage of the Weavers Triangle.
The signature work is aerospace - the nacelle, composite and sheet-metal manufacturing - alongside engineering and food manufacturing, across the Network 65 Business Park and Heasandford estates, with the bodyshops between them.
Wherever a Burnley 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 Network 65 Business Park units down to the smallest Burnley workshop, measuring capture and face velocity and issuing a plain pass-or-remedial result with every hood tagged.
By sector
A system that catches fume, dust, mist or vapour at the point it is released is LEV, and for Burnley employers and others across Lancashire it is the record COSHH looks for first.
Composite-dust, resin, weld-fume and sheet-metal extraction across the nacelle and aerospace-composite lines, a major Burnley cluster, where dust and fume need capture at source.
Machining, grinding and fume extraction across the engineering and manufacturing units, where metal dust and mist need capture proven.
Steam, flour-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 Network 65 Business Park and Heasandford units. Since the HSE's 2019 reclassification, all welding fume - mild steel included - is treated as carcinogenic.
Spray-booth and prep-bay extraction at Burnley 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 Central Lancashire Burnley campus and Burnley General Hospital, to the containment their work demands.
On the ground in Burnley
We are out under Burnley's extraction every week. The proof that matters is the jobs, not a stock photo.
An aerospace precision-machining shop in Burnley had a coolant-mist collector vibrating violently on its gantry mount from an unbalanced fan impeller. We isolated the unit, cleaned the solidified oil-grease sludge off the blades and checked the vibration alongside the flow. It passed conditionally on the extraction performance but we issued a mechanical warning on the mounting stability. The shop floor had automated guided vehicles moving the lanes during the test.
The test
A statutory LEV test to HSG258 is far more than a look round. On a Burnley 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 Network 65 Business Park 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 Burnley line.
Where exposure is in question - an aerospace and advanced manufacturing 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 Burnley sites, from the Network 65 Business Park 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 Burnley 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 Burnley duty-holder.
Each system tagged with status and next-due date, so compliance is visible on the Heasandford 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 aerospace and advanced manufacturing bay, an engineering and manufacturing 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 Burnley 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.
Aerospace and advanced manufacturing, engineering and manufacturing, food manufacturing, welding and fabrication, vehicle body and paint, and the labs of the university campus and hospital - the trades clustered around Network 65 Business Park and Heasandford and across the wider Lancashire.
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 Network 65 Business Park or a smaller Burnley workshop needs for their COSHH file.
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 Network 65 Business Park unit will ask to see.
Yes. We plan testing around production shifts at the Network 65 Business Park units, term-time access at the Burnley university labs, and normal hours at smaller workshops, so the examination never stops the line.
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 Burnley, but a Network 65 Business Park fabrication shop and a St James Street canopy are kept as the separate jobs they are.
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