Bury · COSHH / HSG258
Statutory thorough examination and testing of local exhaust ventilation for Bury workshops and production sites, keeping fume and dust control compliant with COSHH and HSE guidance HSG258.
Bury
Bury is a Greater Manchester borough of around 194,000 on the Irwell, famous for its market and the Bury black pudding, and the birthplace of Sir Robert Peel.
The work is textiles, paper and food - the textile and felt manufacturing rooted in the town's cotton heritage, the papermaking, and the food manufacturing including the black-pudding producers - across the Bradley Fold and Chamberhall Business Park estates, with the bodyshops between them.
Wherever a Bury 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 Bradley Fold units down to the smallest Bury 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 Bury and the wider Greater Manchester it is your evidence under COSHH.
Fibre-dust and mist extraction across the textile and felt lines, a trade rooted in Bury's cotton heritage, where dust needs capture at source.
Solvent, dust and mist extraction across the paper and print lines, where VOC vapour and paper dust need capture proven.
Steam, dust and mist extraction across the food producers, including the black-pudding makers, where organic dust is both a health and a combustion risk.
On-torch extraction, fume arms and downdraught benches across the Bradley Fold and Chamberhall Business 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 Bury 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 Bury College and Fairfield General Hospital, to the containment their work demands.
On the ground in Bury
We are out under Bury's extraction every week. The proof that matters is the jobs, not a stock photo.
A felt and textile mill in Bury had the carding-machine extraction chutes choked tight with dense wool fibre, driving the main fan into an over-current trip. We cleared the packed fibre from the hopper necks by hand, reset the control-panel breaker and measured the static pressures. It failed at first on the total blockage, then passed once cleared and the flow hit its design target. The late-19th-century mill had low timber beams, so the telescopic test poles had to be positioned carefully.
The test
Under HSG258 a statutory LEV test is no visual once-over. For a Bury 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 Bradley Fold 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 Bury line.
Where exposure is in question - a textiles and felt 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 most Bury sites - from the Bradley Fold 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 Bury 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 Bury duty-holder.
Each system tagged with status and next-due date, so compliance is visible on the Chamberhall Business 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 textiles and felt manufacturing bay, a paper and print 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 Bradley Fold unit will ask to see.
Yes. A new spray booth or fume-arm install at a Bury 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.
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 Bury, but a Bradley Fold fabrication shop and a Fleet Street canopy are kept as the separate jobs they are.
Yes - the industrial estates and workshops around Bradley Fold and Chamberhall Business Park, the university and hospital labs, and the wider Greater Manchester.
Textiles and felt manufacturing, paper and print, food manufacturing, welding and fabrication, vehicle body and paint, and the labs of the college and hospital - the trades clustered around Bradley Fold and Chamberhall Business Park and across the wider Greater Manchester.
Yes. We plan testing around production shifts at the Bradley Fold units, term-time access at the Bury university labs, and normal hours at smaller workshops, so the examination never stops the line.
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