Morley · COSHH / HSG258
Statutory thorough examination and testing of local exhaust ventilation for Morley workshops and production sites, keeping fume and dust control compliant with COSHH and HSE guidance HSG258.
Morley
Morley is a historic woollen town of around 44,000 in West Yorkshire's Heavy Woollen District, which grew rich on cloth and shoddy and is crowned by the grand Grade I listed Town Hall opened by the Morley-born prime minister Herbert Asquith.
The signature trade is textiles and engineering - the woollen and shoddy finishing heritage, the engineering and advanced manufacturing, and the plastics and distribution of the M62 corridor - across the Treefield Industrial Estate and Capitol Park estates, with the bodyshops between them.
Wherever a Morley 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 Treefield Industrial Estate units down to the smallest Morley 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 Morley and the rest of West Yorkshire it is the evidence COSHH expects you to hold.
Fibre-dust and dye-house fume extraction across the rag-grinding, carding and cloth-finishing lines of the shoddy and mungo heritage, the defining trade of the town, where fine wool dust is both a health and a combustion risk and needs capture at source.
Weld-fume, machining-mist and degreasing-vapour extraction across the metalworking and precision-engineering units of the Gelderd Road corridor, where metal dust and mist need capture proven.
Process-fume, paper-dust and solvent-vapour extraction across the plastics and envelope and paper-converting units, where the moulding and print lines need capture at source.
On-torch extraction, fume arms and downdraught benches across the Treefield Industrial Estate and Capitol 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 Morley 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 health centres, to the containment their work demands.
On the ground in Morley
We are out under Morley's extraction every week. The proof that matters is the jobs, not a stock photo.
A textile-finishing works in Morley had a fibre-dust extraction over a rag-grinding line pulling weak, letting fine wool and shoddy dust drift off the line. We measured the capture at the hood and checked the collector and ducting for leaks. It failed on the low capture and the dust breakthrough, and we specified the remedial work. Fine textile dust is both a health and a combustion risk, so the housekeeping around the collector was logged alongside the airflow.
The test
Under HSG258 a statutory LEV test is no visual once-over. For a Morley 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 Treefield 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 Morley line.
Where exposure is in question - a textiles and woollen finishing 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.
For the great majority of Morley sites, from the Treefield Industrial Estate 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 Morley 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 Morley duty-holder.
Each system tagged with status and next-due date, so compliance is visible on the Capitol 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. A textiles and woollen finishing bay, an engineering and advanced manufacturing 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 Treefield Industrial 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 Morley, but a Treefield Industrial Estate fabrication shop and a Queen Street canopy are kept as the separate jobs they are.
Yes - the industrial estates and workshops around Treefield Industrial Estate and Capitol Park, the university and hospital labs, and the wider West Yorkshire.
Yes. We plan testing around production shifts at the Treefield Industrial Estate units, term-time access at the Morley university labs, and normal hours at smaller workshops, so the examination never stops the line.
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 Treefield 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.
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 Treefield Industrial Estate or a smaller Morley workshop needs for their COSHH file.
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