Hinckley · COSHH / HSG258
Statutory thorough examination and testing of local exhaust ventilation for Hinckley workshops and production sites, keeping fume and dust control compliant with COSHH and HSE guidance HSG258.
Hinckley
Hinckley is a Leicestershire town of around 50,000 on the A5, the global home of Triumph Motorcycles and a hosiery town where the first stocking frame arrived in 1640.
The signature trade is manufacturing and logistics - the motorcycle and advanced manufacturing, the hosiery and knitwear finishing, and the golden-triangle distribution - across the Jacknell Road and Brindley Road estates, with the bodyshops between them.
Wherever a Hinckley 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 Jacknell Road units down to the smallest Hinckley workshop, measuring capture and face velocity and issuing a plain pass-or-remedial result with every hood tagged.
By sector
Any system that draws fume, dust, mist or vapour off at source counts as LEV, and across Hinckley and the rest of Leicestershire it is the evidence COSHH expects you to hold.
Weld-fume, paint-booth and machining extraction across the motorcycle and advanced-manufacturing lines, the defining trade of the town, where fume and coating vapour need capture at source.
Fibre-dust, dye-vapour and mist extraction across the hosiery and knitwear-finishing units of the historic stocking town, where fine fibre and vapour need capture proven.
Battery-charging, weld-fume and paint extraction across the golden-triangle distribution sheds of the M69 and A5, where the maintenance bays need capture at source.
On-torch extraction, fume arms and downdraught benches across the Jacknell Road and Brindley Road units. Since the HSE's 2019 reclassification, all welding fume - mild steel included - is treated as carcinogenic.
Spray-booth and prep-bay extraction at Hinckley 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 local college and the town's community hospital, to the containment their work demands.
On the ground in Hinckley
We are out under Hinckley's extraction every week. The proof that matters is the jobs, not a stock photo.
A motorcycle-manufacturing plant on Normandy Way in Hinckley had a paint-shop extraction failing its airflow check because the exhaust filters were blinded with overspray and the make-up air was starved. We measured the booth face velocity and the filter differential and checked the cross-draught. It failed on the low airflow from the blinded filters, so the booth could not hold clean spraying conditions until they were changed. Two-pack paints release isocyanates, so air-fed breathing protection and full booth lockout were in place.
The test
A statutory LEV test to HSG258 is far more than a look round. On a Hinckley 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 Jacknell Road 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 Hinckley line.
Where exposure is in question - a motorcycle and advanced manufacturing process, say - sampling confirms whether control is actually protecting the people at the process.
The duty
COSHH Regulation 9 puts a hard duty on the employer: any LEV controlling a hazardous substance must have a thorough examination and test at least every fourteen months, with records kept for five years.
For most Hinckley sites - from the Jacknell Road 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 Hinckley 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 Hinckley duty-holder.
Each system tagged with status and next-due date, so compliance is visible on the Brindley Road 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 motorcycle and advanced manufacturing bay, a hosiery and knitwear finishing bench and a lab fume cupboard can each sit on a different interval - we set the right one for every system.
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 Jacknell Road production line we can usually fit the re-test around your shifts. We will not pass a system that does not control exposure.
Motorcycle and advanced manufacturing, hosiery and knitwear finishing, logistics and distribution, welding and fabrication, vehicle body and paint, and the labs of the college and hospital - the trades clustered around Jacknell Road and Brindley Road and across the wider Leicestershire.
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 Hinckley, but a Jacknell Road fabrication shop and a Castle Street canopy are kept as the separate jobs they are.
Yes - the industrial estates and workshops around Jacknell Road and Brindley Road, the university and hospital labs, and the wider Leicestershire.
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 Jacknell Road or a smaller Hinckley 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 Jacknell Road unit will ask to see.
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