Newark-on-Trent · COSHH / HSG258
Statutory thorough examination and testing of local exhaust ventilation for Newark-on-Trent workshops and production sites, keeping fume and dust control compliant with COSHH and HSE guidance HSG258.
Newark-on-Trent
Newark-on-Trent is a market town of around 30,000 in Nottinghamshire, standing on the River Trent and dominated by the ruins of Newark Castle, where King John died in 1216 and which endured three Civil War sieges.
The signature trade is food and engineering - the food and drink and sugar-beet processing, the pump and precision engineering, and the logistics of the A1 and A46 - across the Brunel Drive Industrial Estate and Northern Road estates, with the bodyshops between them.
Every Newark-on-Trent 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 Brunel Drive Industrial Estate plant to the single-bench Newark-on-Trent units, logging capture and face-velocity figures and returning a clear pass-or-remedial outcome with each hood identified and labelled.
By sector
Any system that draws fume, dust, mist or vapour off at source counts as LEV, and across Newark-on-Trent and the rest of Nottinghamshire it is the evidence COSHH expects you to hold.
Grease-laden oven fume, steam and process-dust extraction across the bakery and dessert lines and the sugar-beet processing plant, a major trade of the town, where the ovens and process steam need capture at source.
Weld-fume, foundry-fume and machining-mist extraction across the pump and precision-engineering units, carrying the town's ball-bearing heritage, where metal fume and mist need capture proven.
Solder-fume, battery-charging and forklift-exhaust extraction across the A1 and A46 distribution and electronics-repair sheds, where the repair benches and charging bays need capture at source.
On-torch extraction, fume arms and downdraught benches across the Brunel Drive Industrial Estate and Northern 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 Newark 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 Newark College and Newark Hospital, to the containment their work demands.
On the ground in Newark-on-Trent
We are out under Newark-on-Trent's extraction every week. The proof that matters is the jobs, not a stock photo.
A pump-and-fluid-engineering works in Newark had a weld-fume and machining extraction hood over a fabrication bay pulling weak because a branch damper had corroded part-shut. We freed the damper, re-ran the capture check at the bench and measured the branch flow. It failed at first on the low capture and passed once it was reset, the fume drawn cleanly off the work. Since the HSE reclassified all welding fume as carcinogenic in 2019, on-torch capture was checked alongside the hood.
The test
Under HSG258 a statutory LEV test is no visual once-over. For a Newark-on-Trent 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 Brunel Drive 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 Newark-on-Trent line.
Where exposure is in question - a food, drink and sugar processing process, say - sampling confirms whether control is actually protecting the people at the process.
The duty
Under Regulation 9 of COSHH the obligation sits squarely with the employer - any LEV that controls a hazardous substance needs a thorough examination and test at least every fourteen months, and the records held for five years.
For most Newark-on-Trent sites - from the Brunel Drive Industrial Estate 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 Newark-on-Trent 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 Newark-on-Trent duty-holder.
Each system tagged with status and next-due date, so compliance is visible on the Northern 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 food, drink and sugar processing bay, a pump and precision engineering bench and a lab fume cupboard can each sit on a different interval - we set the right one for every system.
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 Newark-on-Trent, but a Brunel Drive Industrial Estate fabrication shop and a Market Place canopy are kept as the separate jobs they are.
Yes. We plan testing around production shifts at the Brunel Drive Industrial Estate units, term-time access at the Newark-on-Trent university labs, and normal hours at smaller workshops, so the examination never stops the line.
Yes. A new spray booth or fume-arm install at a Newark-on-Trent 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 Brunel Drive Industrial Estate unit will ask to see.
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 Brunel Drive Industrial Estate or a smaller Newark-on-Trent workshop needs for their COSHH file.
Yes - the industrial estates and workshops around Brunel Drive Industrial Estate and Northern Road, the university and hospital labs, and the wider Nottinghamshire.
Phoenix Duct Clean · by the numbers
Stay compliant with COSHH and HSG258. No-obligation quote, UK-wide.