Worksop · COSHH / HSG258
Statutory thorough examination and testing of local exhaust ventilation for Worksop workshops and production sites, keeping fume and dust control compliant with COSHH and HSE guidance HSG258.
Worksop
Worksop is a Nottinghamshire market town of around 44,000, the Gateway to the Dukeries and a major distribution hub on the A1, with a large food-manufacturing base and a coal-mining heritage.
The signature trade is logistics and food - the national distribution of the A1 and M1 corridor, the food-to-go manufacturing, and the engineering - across the Sandy Lane Industrial Estate and Manton Wood estates, with the bodyshops between them.
Every Worksop 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 Sandy Lane Industrial Estate plant to the single-bench Worksop units, logging capture and face-velocity figures and returning a clear pass-or-remedial outcome with each hood identified and labelled.
By sector
A system that catches fume, dust, mist or vapour at the point it is released is LEV, and for Worksop employers and others across Nottinghamshire it is the record COSHH looks for first.
Battery-charging, weld-fume and paint extraction across the national distribution parks of the A1 and M1 corridor, where the maintenance and fabrication bays need capture at source.
Steam, dust and mist extraction across the food-to-go and food-manufacturing lines, where organic dust is both a health and a combustion risk.
Machining, grinding and fume extraction across the engineering and advanced-manufacturing units, where metal dust and mist need capture proven.
On-torch extraction, fume arms and downdraught benches across the Sandy Lane Industrial Estate and Manton Wood units. Since the HSE's 2019 reclassification, all welding fume - mild steel included - is treated as carcinogenic.
Spray-booth and prep-bay extraction at Worksop 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 local college and Bassetlaw District General Hospital, to the containment their work demands.
On the ground in Worksop
We are out under Worksop's extraction every week. The proof that matters is the jobs, not a stock photo.
A food-to-go manufacturing plant in Worksop had a steam-and-mist extraction canopy over a sandwich and salad line pulling weak because a flexible duct had pulled off the trunking above the belt. We reconnected the ducting, ran a smoke test over the line and measured the extract rate. It failed on the disconnected run and passed once resealed, the vapour flow back above the design figure. The chilled line ran at volume, so the test was fitted around a scheduled hygiene changeover.
The test
A statutory LEV test under HSG258 is not a visual once-over. On a Worksop system it answers three things: is the system intact, does it still capture, and does that capture match what it was designed to do.
Ductwork, hoods, filters, fans and dampers checked for damage, blockage and leakage across the Sandy Lane 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 Worksop line.
Where exposure is in question - a logistics and distribution 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 Worksop sites, from the Sandy Lane 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 Worksop 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 Worksop duty-holder.
Each system tagged with status and next-due date, so compliance is visible on the Manton Wood Enterprise Park 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 logistics and distribution bay, a food manufacturing bench and a lab fume cupboard can each sit on a different interval - we set the right one for every system.
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 Sandy Lane Industrial Estate unit will ask to see.
Logistics and distribution, food manufacturing, engineering and advanced manufacturing, welding and fabrication, vehicle body and paint, and the labs of the college and hospital - the trades clustered around Sandy Lane Industrial Estate and Manton Wood Enterprise Park and across the wider Nottinghamshire.
Yes - the industrial estates and workshops around Sandy Lane Industrial Estate and Manton Wood Enterprise Park, the university and hospital labs, and the wider Nottinghamshire.
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 Sandy Lane 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. We plan testing around production shifts at the Sandy Lane Industrial Estate units, term-time access at the Worksop university labs, and normal hours at smaller workshops, so the examination never stops the line.
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 Worksop, but a Sandy Lane Industrial Estate fabrication shop and a Bridge Street canopy are kept as the separate jobs they are.
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