Long Eaton · COSHH / HSG258
Statutory thorough examination and testing of local exhaust ventilation for Long Eaton workshops and production sites, keeping fume and dust control compliant with COSHH and HSE guidance HSG258.
Long Eaton
Long Eaton is a Derbyshire town in Erewash, around 38,000, the recognised UK centre of quality upholstery and furniture making, with a lace-making heritage on the Erewash Canal.
The signature trade is upholstery - the foam, spray and finishing work of the sofa and furniture cluster, the lace and textile heritage, and the engineering - across the Fields Farm Road and Forbes Park estates, with the bodyshops between them.
Every Long Eaton 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 Fields Farm Road plant to the single-bench Long Eaton units, logging capture and face-velocity figures and returning a clear pass-or-remedial outcome with each hood identified and labelled.
By sector
If a process captures fume, dust, mist or vapour at source, that capture system is LEV - and across Long Eaton and the wider Derbyshire it is your evidence under COSHH.
Spray-adhesive vapour, foam-bonding fume and fabric-dust extraction across the upholstery and furniture lines, the defining trade of the sofa town, where solvent vapour and fibre dust need capture at source.
Fibre-dust, mist and vapour extraction across the textile and finishing units of the lace heritage, where fine fibre and vapour need capture proven.
Machining, grinding and fume extraction across the engineering and advanced-manufacturing units, where metal dust and mist need capture at source.
On-torch extraction, fume arms and downdraught benches across the Fields Farm Road and Forbes 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 Long Eaton 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 Ilkeston Community Hospital, to the containment their work demands.
On the ground in Long Eaton
We are out under Long Eaton's extraction every week. The proof that matters is the jobs, not a stock photo.
An upholstery-manufacturing workshop in Long Eaton had a spray-adhesive and foam-bonding extraction bench pulling weak, letting a solvent haze and fabric dust drift off the line. We measured the capture at the bench and checked the collector and ducting for leaks. It failed on the low capture and the vapour breakthrough, and we specified the remedial work. The spray adhesives carried a solvent load, so vapour monitoring backed up the airflow test.
The test
A statutory LEV test to HSG258 is far more than a look round. On a Long Eaton 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 Fields Farm 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 Long Eaton line.
Where exposure is in question - an upholstery and furniture 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 the great majority of Long Eaton sites, from the Fields Farm Road units to the one-man workshops, the fourteen-month deadline is what catches people out: once it passes the system is non-compliant regardless of its actual state. We carry out the examination, label every hood with its status and next-due date, and issue the report an HSE inspector or your insurer expects to see - and if a point fails, you get the number, the cause and the fix rather than a bare fail.
How it runs
Full visual and structural check of every hood, duct run, filter and fan across the Long Eaton 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 Long Eaton duty-holder.
Each system tagged with status and next-due date, so compliance is visible on the Forbes 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. An upholstery and furniture manufacturing bay, a textiles and finishing bench and a lab fume cupboard can each sit on a different interval - we set the right one for every system.
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 Fields Farm Road or a smaller Long Eaton workshop needs for their COSHH file.
Yes. A new spray booth or fume-arm install at a Long Eaton 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 - the industrial estates and workshops around Fields Farm Road and Forbes Park, the university and hospital labs, and the wider Derbyshire.
Yes. We plan testing around production shifts at the Fields Farm Road units, term-time access at the Long Eaton university labs, and normal hours at smaller workshops, so the examination never stops the line.
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 Long Eaton, but a Fields Farm Road fabrication shop and a Tamworth Road canopy are kept as the separate jobs they are.
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 Fields Farm Road unit will ask to see.
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