Sale · COSHH / HSG258
Statutory thorough examination and testing of local exhaust ventilation for Sale workshops and production sites, keeping fume and dust control compliant with COSHH and HSE guidance HSG258.
Sale
Sale is an affluent professional commuter town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, of around 62,500, threaded by the Bridgewater Canal and the Metrolink tram and the original birthplace of the Sale Sharks rugby club.
The signature trade is professional and light-industry services - the food and hospitality trade of the town centre, the light engineering of the estates, and the print, signmaking and dental-lab work - across the Dane Road Industrial Estate and Longford Trading Estate estates, with the bodyshops between them.
Every one of those Sale processes puts fume, dust, mist or vapour into the air, and COSHH requires it controlled at source - which means local exhaust ventilation, thoroughly examined and tested at least every fourteen months. We test the LEV across all of it - from the Dane Road Industrial Estate units to the smaller Sale workshops - with capture and face-velocity readings, a clear pass or remedial outcome and system labelling.
By sector
A system that catches fume, dust, mist or vapour at the point it is released is LEV, and for Sale employers and others across Greater Manchester it is the record COSHH looks for first.
Grease-laden canopy and extract-duct extraction across the dense town-centre restaurant trade, a genuine dining destination, where the concentration of commercial kitchens needs capture and duct cleaning to the fire and hygiene standard.
Ink and solvent-vapour extraction across the small and large-format print and vinyl workshops, where the print and coating benches need capture at source.
Bench-extraction testing across the dental and technical labs of the town, where plaster, resin and metal grinding dust is drawn off at the bench under COSHH.
On-torch extraction, fume arms and downdraught benches across the Dane Road Industrial Estate and Longford Trading Estate units. Since the HSE's 2019 reclassification, all welding fume - mild steel included - is treated as carcinogenic.
Spray-booth and prep-bay extraction at Sale 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 Trafford College and Trafford General Hospital nearby, to the containment their work demands.
On the ground in Sale
We are out under Sale's extraction every week. The proof that matters is the jobs, not a stock photo.
A signmaking workshop in Sale had a solvent-vapour extraction over a large-format print and vinyl bench pulling weak, letting ink and solvent vapour drift into the studio. We measured the capture at the bench and checked the ducting and fan for losses. It failed on the low capture and the vapour breakthrough, and we specified the remedial work. The bench ran solvent inks, so the vapour monitoring backed up the airflow test.
The test
A statutory LEV test to HSG258 is far more than a look round. On a Sale 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 Dane Road 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 Sale line.
Where exposure is in question - a food, drink and hospitality 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 Sale sites - from the Dane Road 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 Sale 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 Sale duty-holder.
Each system tagged with status and next-due date, so compliance is visible on the Longford Trading Estate 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 hospitality bay, a print, signmaking and media bench and a lab fume cupboard can each sit on a different interval - we set the right one for every system.
Yes - the industrial estates and workshops around Dane Road Industrial Estate and Longford Trading Estate, the university and hospital labs, and the wider Greater Manchester.
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 Dane Road Industrial Estate or a smaller Sale workshop needs for their COSHH file.
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 Sale, but a Dane Road Industrial Estate fabrication shop and a School 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 Dane Road Industrial Estate unit will ask to see.
Yes. A new spray booth or fume-arm install at a Sale 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. We plan testing around production shifts at the Dane Road Industrial Estate units, term-time access at the Sale university labs, and normal hours at smaller workshops, so the examination never stops the line.
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