Cleethorpes · COSHH / HSG258
Statutory thorough examination and testing of local exhaust ventilation for Cleethorpes workshops and production sites, keeping fume and dust control compliant with COSHH and HSE guidance HSG258.
Cleethorpes
Cleethorpes is a Victorian seaside resort of around 30,000 in North East Lincolnshire, known for its four miles of sand and its 1873 pier, adjoining Grimsby at the heart of the largest seafood cluster in Northern Europe.
The signature trade is seafood and hospitality - the seafood processing and cold storage of the Grimsby-Cleethorpes cluster, the seaside catering, and the food and drink manufacturing - across the Wilton Road Industrial Estate and Europarc estates, with the bodyshops between them.
Each of those Cleethorpes 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 Wilton Road Industrial Estate units to the one-bench Cleethorpes 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 Cleethorpes and the rest of Lincolnshire it is the evidence COSHH expects you to hold.
Steam, fish-oil aerosol and chill-store condensate extraction across the filleting, smoking and cooking lines of the seafood cluster, the defining trade of the coast, where the process moisture loads the ductwork and needs capture at source.
Grease-laden canopy and fryer-flue extraction across the seafront restaurants, chip shops, arcades and hotels, where high-turnover frying deposits heavy grease that is both a fire risk and a hygiene one.
Oven, fryer and cook-chill fume extraction across the bakery and ready-meal producers of the food park, where cooking fume and organic dust need capture proven.
On-torch extraction, fume arms and downdraught benches across the Wilton Road Industrial Estate and Europarc units. Since the HSE's 2019 reclassification, all welding fume - mild steel included - is treated as carcinogenic.
Spray-booth and prep-bay extraction at Cleethorpes 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 Grimsby Institute and the Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby, to the containment their work demands.
On the ground in Cleethorpes
We are out under Cleethorpes's extraction every week. The proof that matters is the jobs, not a stock photo.
A seafood-processing unit near Cleethorpes had a steam-and-cook extraction over a shellfish-boiling line pulling weak, letting salt-laden steam and organic odour escape into the packing 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, so the humidity load on the ductwork was logged alongside the airflow.
The test
An HSG258 statutory LEV test goes well beyond a walk-round look. On a Cleethorpes 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 Wilton Road 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 Cleethorpes line.
Where exposure is in question - a seafood processing and cold storage 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 Cleethorpes sites - from the Wilton Road 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 Cleethorpes 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 Cleethorpes duty-holder.
Each system tagged with status and next-due date, so compliance is visible on the Europarc 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 seafood processing and cold storage 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.
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 Wilton Road Industrial Estate unit will ask to see.
Yes. A new spray booth or fume-arm install at a Cleethorpes 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 Cleethorpes, but a Wilton Road Industrial Estate fabrication shop and a Sea View Street canopy are kept as the separate jobs they are.
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 Wilton Road Industrial Estate or a smaller Cleethorpes workshop needs for their COSHH file.
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 Wilton Road 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.
Yes - the industrial estates and workshops around Wilton Road Industrial Estate and Europarc, the university and hospital labs, and the wider Lincolnshire.
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