West Bridgford · COSHH / HSG258
Statutory thorough examination and testing of local exhaust ventilation for West Bridgford workshops and production sites, keeping fume and dust control compliant with COSHH and HSE guidance HSG258.
West Bridgford
West Bridgford is a Nottinghamshire town in Rushcliffe on the south bank of the Trent, around 47,000, whose riverside carries both Trent Bridge cricket ground and the City Ground of Nottingham Forest.
The work is hospitality and light industry - the very high density of commercial catering, the light engineering and trade units, and the printing and vehicle trades - across the Rushcliffe Business Park and Gamston estates, with the bodyshops between them.
Wherever a West Bridgford 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 Rushcliffe Business Park units down to the smallest West Bridgford 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 West Bridgford and the rest of Nottinghamshire it is the evidence COSHH expects you to hold.
Grease-laden canopy and duct extraction across the very high density of restaurants, bars and stadium kitchens, where the cooklines run hard and need capture at source.
Machining, grinding and fume extraction across the light-engineering and trade units, where metal dust and mist need capture proven.
Solvent-vapour and ink-mist extraction across the print and finishing units, where VOC vapour needs capture at source.
On-torch extraction, fume arms and downdraught benches across the Rushcliffe Business Park and Gamston units. Since the HSE's 2019 reclassification, all welding fume - mild steel included - is treated as carcinogenic.
Spray-booth and prep-bay extraction at West Bridgford 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 University of Nottingham nearby and the Queen's Medical Centre, to the containment their work demands.
On the ground in West Bridgford
We are out under West Bridgford's extraction every week. The proof that matters is the jobs, not a stock photo.
A vehicle bodyshop near West Bridgford had a spray-booth extraction failing its airflow check because the exhaust filters were blinded with overspray and the make-up air was starved. We measured the booth face velocity and the filter differential and checked the cross-draught. It failed on the low airflow from the blinded filters, so the booth could not hold clean spraying conditions until they were changed. Two-pack paints release isocyanates, so air-fed breathing protection and full booth lockout were in place.
The test
Under HSG258 a statutory LEV test is no visual once-over. For a West Bridgford 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 Rushcliffe Business 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 West Bridgford line.
Where exposure is in question - a commercial catering and food 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 West Bridgford sites, from the Rushcliffe Business Park 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 West Bridgford 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 West Bridgford duty-holder.
Each system tagged with status and next-due date, so compliance is visible on the Gamston 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 commercial catering and food bay, a light engineering and trade units bench and a lab fume cupboard can each sit on a different interval - we set the right one for every system.
Commercial catering and food, light engineering and trade units, printing and finishing, welding and fabrication, vehicle body and paint, and the labs of the university and hospital - the trades clustered around Rushcliffe Business Park and Gamston and across the wider Nottinghamshire.
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 West Bridgford, but a Rushcliffe Business Park fabrication shop and a Central Avenue canopy are kept as the separate jobs they are.
Yes - the industrial estates and workshops around Rushcliffe Business Park and Gamston, the university and hospital labs, and the wider Nottinghamshire.
Yes. A new spray booth or fume-arm install at a West Bridgford 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 Rushcliffe Business Park units, term-time access at the West Bridgford university labs, and normal hours at smaller workshops, so the examination never stops the line.
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 Rushcliffe Business Park or a smaller West Bridgford workshop needs for their COSHH file.
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