Weymouth · COSHH / HSG258
Statutory thorough examination and testing of local exhaust ventilation for Weymouth workshops and production sites, keeping fume and dust control compliant with COSHH and HSE guidance HSG258.
Weymouth
Weymouth is a Georgian seaside resort of around 53,000 on the Dorset coast, made fashionable by King George III and today drawing visitors to its harbour, sandy beach and the 2012 Olympic sailing venue at nearby Portland.
The signature trade is hospitality and marine - the seafront and seaside catering, the marine and boatbuilding, and the food and seafood processing - across the Granby Industrial Estate and Lynch Lane estates, with the bodyshops between them.
Each of those Weymouth processes throws fume, dust, mist or vapour into the workplace air, and COSHH demands it is captured at source - that capture system is local exhaust ventilation, and it must be thoroughly examined and tested at least every fourteen months. We cover the lot, from the Granby Industrial Estate units to the one-bench Weymouth workshops, taking capture and face-velocity readings and leaving a clear pass or remedial verdict with the hoods labelled.
By sector
Any system that draws fume, dust, mist or vapour off at source counts as LEV, and across Weymouth and the rest of Dorset it is the evidence COSHH expects you to hold.
Grease-laden canopy and fryer-flue extraction across the Esplanade and harbourside restaurants, chip shops and cafes, the defining trade of the resort, where high-volume frying deposits heavy grease that is both a fire risk and a hygiene one.
Styrene-vapour, weld-fume and spray-paint extraction across the boatyards and repair workshops of the harbour, where GRP work, welding and spraying each need capture at source.
Wash-down mist, chill-room condensate and cooking-fume extraction across the seafood and food-production units, where the process moisture and cooking fume need capture proven.
On-torch extraction, fume arms and downdraught benches across the Granby Industrial Estate and Lynch Lane units. Since the HSE's 2019 reclassification, all welding fume - mild steel included - is treated as carcinogenic.
Spray-booth and prep-bay extraction at Weymouth 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 Weymouth College and the Weymouth Community Hospital, to the containment their work demands.
On the ground in Weymouth
We are out under Weymouth's extraction every week. The proof that matters is the jobs, not a stock photo.
A boatyard in Weymouth had a resin-and-dust extraction over a GRP-lamination bay pulling weak, letting styrene vapour and grinding dust drift off the hull work. 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 bay laid up GRP composite, so the styrene monitoring backed up the airflow test.
The test
A statutory LEV test to HSG258 is far more than a look round. On a Weymouth 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 Granby 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 Weymouth line.
Where exposure is in question - a seafront and seaside catering 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 Weymouth sites, from the Granby 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 Weymouth 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 Weymouth duty-holder.
Each system tagged with status and next-due date, so compliance is visible on the Lynch Lane Industrial 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 seafront and seaside catering bay, a marine and boatbuilding 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 Weymouth, but a Granby Industrial Estate fabrication shop and a St Mary Street canopy are kept as the separate jobs they are.
Yes. A new spray booth or fume-arm install at a Weymouth 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 Granby 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.
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 Granby 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 Granby Industrial Estate or a smaller Weymouth workshop needs for their COSHH file.
Seafront and seaside catering, marine and boatbuilding, food and seafood processing, welding and fabrication, vehicle body and paint, and the labs of the college and hospital - the trades clustered around Granby Industrial Estate and Lynch Lane Industrial Estate and across the wider Dorset.
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