Nuneaton · COSHH / HSG258
Statutory thorough examination and testing of local exhaust ventilation for Nuneaton workshops and production sites, keeping fume and dust control compliant with COSHH and HSE guidance HSG258.
Nuneaton
Nuneaton is the largest town in Warwickshire, around 89,000, birthplace of the novelist George Eliot and home to the HORIBA MIRA automotive proving ground.
The signature work is automotive - the HORIBA MIRA vehicle R&D and testing - alongside advanced manufacturing, plastics and logistics, across the Bermuda Park and Bayton Road estates, with the bodyshops between them.
Wherever a Nuneaton 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 Bermuda Park units down to the smallest Nuneaton workshop, measuring capture and face velocity and issuing a plain pass-or-remedial result with every hood tagged.
By sector
If a process captures fume, dust, mist or vapour at source, that capture system is LEV - and across Nuneaton and the wider Warwickshire it is your evidence under COSHH.
Weld-fume, machining-mist and paint extraction across the automotive R&D, testing and component lines, a trade anchored by the MIRA proving ground, where metal fume and coating vapour need capture at source.
Machining, grinding and fume extraction across the advanced-manufacturing and engineering units, where metal dust and mist need capture proven.
VOC and particulate extraction on the plastics and moulding lines, where melt fume and dust need capture at source.
On-torch extraction, fume arms and downdraught benches across the Bermuda Park and Bayton 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 Nuneaton 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 North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College and George Eliot Hospital, to the containment their work demands.
On the ground in Nuneaton
We are out under Nuneaton's extraction every week. The proof that matters is the jobs, not a stock photo.
A brickworks and clay-tile factory in Nuneaton had a back-draft hood over a silica-powder weighing hopper with a completely seized volume-control damper. We freed the seized damper shaft with high-penetration oil and balanced the local system flow. It passed once the mechanism was freed, with the face velocity at a steady 1.10 metres per second across the hopper lip. It was a heavy clay-dust environment, so a powered air-purifying respirator was worn throughout the test.
The test
Under HSG258 a statutory LEV test is no visual once-over. For a Nuneaton 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 Bermuda Park 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 Nuneaton line.
Where exposure is in question - an automotive r&d and testing 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 most Nuneaton sites - from the Bermuda Park 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 Nuneaton 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 Nuneaton duty-holder.
Each system tagged with status and next-due date, so compliance is visible on the Bayton 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. An automotive r&d and testing bay, an advanced manufacturing and 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 Nuneaton, but a Bermuda Park fabrication shop and an Abbey Street canopy are kept as the separate jobs they are.
Yes - the industrial estates and workshops around Bermuda Park and Bayton Road, the university and hospital labs, and the wider Warwickshire.
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 Bermuda Park or a smaller Nuneaton workshop needs for their COSHH file.
Automotive R&D and testing, advanced manufacturing and engineering, plastics, welding and fabrication, vehicle body and paint, and the labs of the college and hospital - the trades clustered around Bermuda Park and Bayton Road and across the wider Warwickshire.
Yes. A new spray booth or fume-arm install at a Nuneaton 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.
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 Bermuda Park production line we can usually fit the re-test around your shifts. We will not pass a system that does not control exposure.
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