Guiseley · COSHH / HSG258
Statutory thorough examination and testing of local exhaust ventilation for Guiseley workshops and production sites, keeping fume and dust control compliant with COSHH and HSE guidance HSG258.
Guiseley
Guiseley sits in the Aireborough belt of north-west Leeds, a West Yorkshire town whose name the world knows through fish and chips - it was here at White Cross in 1928 that Harry Ramsden opened the stall that grew into the largest fish and chip shop on earth. It is also the town that built the Silver Cross pram, coachbuilt at the Nethermoor works on Otley Road for the best part of a century.
Its working economy still turns on textiles, light engineering and the fabrication trades, much of it grouped in the units off the A65 at the Hawksworth Estate and Parkside Works on Otley Road, with the surviving woollen mills along Netherfield Road at its heart.
Every one of those Guiseley processes puts fume, dust, mist or vapour into the air, and COSHH requires it controlled at source - which means local exhaust ventilation, thoroughly examined and tested at least every fourteen months. We test the LEV across all of it - from the Hawksworth Estate units to the smaller Guiseley workshops - with capture and face-velocity readings, a clear pass or remedial outcome and system labelling.
By sector
Any system that draws fume, dust, mist or vapour off at source counts as LEV, and across Guiseley and the rest of West Yorkshire it is the evidence COSHH expects you to hold.
Oil-mist and coolant-mist extraction on CNC and machining work, in a town shaped by the Silver Cross pram works and the electrical-engineering heritage of F. and A. Parkinson on Netherfield Road, later part of Crompton Parkinson.
Steam canopies and flour-dust control in the bakeries and food units around the Hawksworth Estate and Guiseley Retail Park, where extraction has to carry moisture and airborne dust away from the line.
Fine-dust extraction and downdraught tables at Guiseley cabinet and joinery shops - a craft with deep local roots, since Silver Cross first built its pram bodies in shaped plywood before switching to aluminium.
On-torch extraction, fume arms and downdraught benches across the sheet-metal fabricators around the Hawksworth Estate and Netherfield Road, echoing the spot-welding and press shops of the old Silver Cross works. Since the HSE reclassified welding fume in 2019, all of it - mild steel included - is treated as carcinogenic.
Spray-booth and prep-bay extraction at Guiseley bodyshops along Otley Road. Two-pack paints release isocyanates - the leading cause of occupational asthma - so booth airflow is examined against its design figure.
Fume-cupboard face-velocity testing for the dye houses, textile labs and school science rooms across the Aireborough area, to the containment their work demands.
On the ground in Guiseley
We are out under Guiseley's extraction every week. The proof that matters is the jobs, not a stock photo.
Face velocity across the spray booth at a family-run furniture spray shop in Guiseley was reading low, and we traced it to a poorly sealed duct joint. We measured face and capture velocities, ran smoke at each point and inspected the fan and filter. One point failed initially on a tired filter and passed after remedial work, with the readings and report going into their file. A single overnight shift meant the unit opened as normal without losing any trade.
The test
A statutory LEV test under HSG258 is not a visual once-over. On a Guiseley system it answers three things: is the system intact, does it still capture, and does that capture match what it was designed to do.
Ductwork, hoods, filters, fans and dampers checked for damage, blockage and leakage across the Hawksworth 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 Guiseley 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
COSHH Regulation 9 makes it plain: any LEV controlling exposure to a hazardous substance has to be thoroughly examined and tested at intervals no greater than fourteen months, and the resulting records kept for at least five years.
On most Guiseley sites - the Hawksworth Estate units and the smaller workshops alike - it is the fourteen-month clock that bites: let it lapse and the system is non-compliant that day, however well it seems to run. We examine it, tag each hood with its status and next-due date, and hand over the report an HSE inspector or insurer will want. Where something fails you get the reading, the cause and the remedy - never just a red sticker.
How it runs
Full visual and structural check of every hood, duct run, filter and fan across the Guiseley 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 Guiseley duty-holder.
Each system tagged with status and next-due date, so compliance is visible on the Parkside Works 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.
precision engineering and manufacturing, food and drink production, woodworking and joinery, welding and fabrication, vehicle body and paint, and laboratory fume cupboards - the trades clustered around Hawksworth Estate and Parkside Works and across the wider West Yorkshire.
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 Hawksworth Estate or a smaller Guiseley 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 Hawksworth Estate unit will ask to see.
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 Guiseley, but a Hawksworth Estate fabrication shop and a Towngate canopy are kept as the separate jobs they are.
Yes. We plan testing around production shifts at the Hawksworth Estate units, term-time access at the Guiseley university labs, and normal hours at smaller workshops, so the examination never stops the line.
Yes - the industrial estates and workshops around Hawksworth Estate and Parkside Works, the university and hospital labs, and the wider West Yorkshire.
Local knowledge
F. and A. Parkinson opened an electrical-engineering works on Netherfield Road in 1918, merged it into Crompton Parkinson in 1927, and kept the site running until it closed and was cleared in 2006. That engineering instinct also drove the Silver Cross pram works on Otley Road, where rubber die presses and spot-welding machines shaped bodies from the 1940s on, and it still runs through Guiseley's machine and fabrication shops. Every one of them carries a duty to control the mist, fume and dust its work throws off. We test and certify local exhaust ventilation so the extraction reads true against its design figures.
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