Goole · COSHH / HSG258
Statutory thorough examination and testing of local exhaust ventilation for Goole workshops and production sites, keeping fume and dust control compliant with COSHH and HSE guidance HSG258.
Goole
Goole is Britain's furthest-inland port, a town of around 20,000 people sitting fifty miles from the open sea where the Aire and Calder Navigation meets the River Ouse. It is a place the Aire and Calder Navigation Company built from green fields in the 1820s to ship South Yorkshire coal, and its twin dockside water towers - the Salt and Pepper Pots - still mark the skyline.
Its working economy runs on the docks, marine and heavy engineering, glass and chemicals, much of it grouped in the units at Capitol Park and the Goole 36 Enterprise Zone off the M62.
Every Goole 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 Capitol Park plant to the single-bench Goole units, logging capture and face-velocity figures and returning a clear pass-or-remedial outcome with each hood identified and labelled.
By sector
Where fume, dust, mist or vapour is pulled away at the point it is made, that is LEV - and for employers in Goole and across East Riding of Yorkshire it stands as their COSHH evidence.
Oil-mist and coolant-mist extraction on CNC machining centres and press lines, from the dockside marine-engineering shops to the rail rolling-stock plant Siemens Mobility built on the Goole 36 Enterprise Zone.
Steam canopies and flour-dust control in Goole's bakeries and food plants, and the logistics kitchens feeding the Tesco distribution centre and the Croda site at the Goole 36 zone.
Fine-dust extraction and downdraught tables at Goole cabinet shops and joinery works, where hardwood and MDF dust is captured at the tool before it reaches the lungs.
On-torch extraction, fume arms and downdraught benches across the Capitol Park and dockside fabrication units. Since the HSE's 2019 reclassification, all welding fume - mild steel included - is treated as carcinogenic.
Spray-booth and prep-bay extraction at Goole bodyshops and commercial-vehicle works. 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 process laboratories at Guardian Glass and Croda and the pathology rooms at Goole and District Hospital, to the containment their work demands.
On the ground in Goole
We are out under Goole's extraction every week. The proof that matters is the jobs, not a stock photo.
Goole's well-known bodyshop had a spray booth reading low on face velocity, which traced back to a worn fan impeller. I recorded benchmark figures, smoke-tested the capture at each hood and cleared the debris sitting in the ducting. One point failed initially on that worn impeller and passed once the remedial work was done, and I wrote it all up in a compliance report for the HSE file. The health and safety folder also got a set of photos and a clean certificate.
The test
Under HSG258 a statutory LEV test is no visual once-over. For a Goole 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 Capitol 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 Goole line.
Where exposure is in question - a precision engineering and manufacturing process, say - sampling confirms whether control is actually protecting the people at the process.
The duty
The duty is written into COSHH Regulation 9: where LEV controls a hazardous substance, the employer must have it thoroughly examined and tested at least every fourteen months and keep the records for five years.
For most Goole sites - from the Capitol Park 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 Goole 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 Goole duty-holder.
Each system tagged with status and next-due date, so compliance is visible on the Goole 36 Enterprise Zone 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 precision engineering and manufacturing bay, a food and drink production bench and a lab fume cupboard can each sit on a different interval - we set the right one for every system.
Yes - the industrial estates and workshops around Capitol Park and Goole 36 Enterprise Zone, the university and hospital labs, and the wider East Riding of Yorkshire.
Yes. We plan testing around production shifts at the Capitol Park units, term-time access at the Goole university labs, and normal hours at smaller workshops, so the examination never stops the line.
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 Capitol Park or a smaller Goole workshop needs for their COSHH file.
Yes. A new spray booth or fume-arm install at a Goole 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.
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 Capitol Park 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 Capitol Park production line we can usually fit the re-test around your shifts. We will not pass a system that does not control exposure.
Local knowledge
The Aire and Calder Navigation Company opened Goole's docks in 1826, cutting a brand-new port and town out of green fields to move South Yorkshire coal to the North Sea. That heavy-engineering instinct still runs through the town, from the marine and fabrication shops around the docks to the float-glass furnaces at Guardian Glass and the rail rolling-stock lines Siemens Mobility opened here in 2024. Every one of those operations carries a duty to control the mist, fume and dust its work throws off. We test and certify local exhaust ventilation to the standard COSHH sets, so the extraction reads true against its design figures.
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