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LEV Testing across Cheshire

LEV Testing · Cheshire

LEV testing across Cheshire.

LEV testing across Cheshire - the market towns, the chemical belt and the engineering and pharma estates. COSHH thorough examination and test of the fume and dust extraction in your workshops - measured, reported and certified.

HSG258 examinationMeasured airflow readingsReport & labelFully insured

Fume and dust control across Cheshire

Cheshire runs from the railway town of Crewe and the silk town of Macclesfield through Warrington and the salt-and-chemical towns of Northwich, Runcorn and Widnes, out to Ellesmere Port on the Mersey, Congleton on the moorland edge and Sandbach in the plain. It is a county of market towns and one of Britain's great chemical and pharma belts.

Every workshop across Cheshire that welds, machines, sprays, mills or bakes raises fume, mist or dust the law says must be controlled. We examine and test local exhaust ventilation across Cheshire to HSG258 - measured capture, a clear verdict and a reliable next-due date, from Chester to Winsford.

Fourteen months, and whose name is on it

A thorough examination and test under COSHH is a real assessment, not a rubber stamp. It is a structured examination of the system's condition, measurement of its actual performance, and an assessment of those readings against how the system should perform to control the exposure. It follows the HSE's guidance, HSG258, and ends in a report and a label.

From a Northwich alkali works to a Widnes pharma cleanroom, the job ends in a report and a label - what was measured, what passed, and the date the next test falls due.

  • Visual and structural examination of hoods, ducting, filter and fan
  • Measured airflow, capture and face velocities at the working points
  • Static pressure and duct transport velocity readings recorded
  • Report against the benchmark, with a label and the next-due date
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The workplaces that need an LEV test

01 / Capture

Hoods at source

Control stands or falls at the hood. We measure capture and face velocities at the point the fume, mist or dust is actually released, not just at the fan.

02 / The system

Ducting & cleaner

Transport velocity, leakage and the air cleaner all decide whether the contaminant reaches discharge. We inspect and measure the length of the system, not a sample of it.

03 / Pressure

Fan & static pressure

Fan performance and static pressure are where a quietly failing system gives itself away. We take the readings that separate a working system from one that only looks it.

Towns we cover across Cheshire

We cover the whole of Cheshire - every town below has its own page for this service.

The industries Cheshire runs, and the substances they raise

Cheshire is one of Britain's great chemical and pharma counties, and each site owes the same duty to control what it raises and to prove it. Northwich makes soda ash and alkali chemicals, Runcorn and Widnes run pharmaceutical cleanrooms and process plants, and Crewe keeps its pharmaceutical research labs, while Congleton builds electric motors and Warrington draws wire and metal. Ellesmere Port runs automotive powder-coating lines, Macclesfield a leather tannery, Runcorn a sandstone quarry and Sandbach vehicle fabrication, with engineering units throughout. We examine and test the extraction on all of it to HSG258.

Examine, measure, report, label

1

Examine

We inspect the system's condition - hoods, ducting, filter and fan - and identify how it is meant to control each process.

2

Measure

We take the readings: capture and face velocities, duct transport velocity and static pressure at the key points.

3

Report

We assess the readings against the benchmark and set out clearly whether the system is controlling the exposure.

4

Label

The system is labelled with the test result and next-due date, and you get the report for your COSHH file.

LEV Testing questions

Do you cover the whole of Cheshire?

Yes - across the county, from Crewe, Warrington and Macclesfield to Northwich, Runcorn, Widnes, Ellesmere Port, Congleton and Sandbach. Each town has its own page for this service; call 07961 915018 or use the contact form and we will confirm and quote.

Can you cover multiple sites across the county?

Yes. We look after multi-site operators across Cheshire on one schedule - a single survey, one set of certificates and a next-due date per site - so a group with kitchens or workshops in several towns keeps its compliance in one place.

Do you work around our opening hours?

Yes. We work overnight, early mornings, weekends and closing days so a Cheshire kitchen or works keeps running while we clean, degrease or test.

Is the work certified?

Yes. Duct and extraction cleaning is certified to TR19 Grease with a photo record, kitchen deep cleans carry a certificate and report for your food hygiene file, and LEV testing is reported and labelled to HSG258.

20+ years of experience

We have carried out LEV thorough examination and testing to HSG258 since 2001, across Cheshire and the UK. From a machine shop to a joinery, a spray booth or a lab fume cupboard, the job ends the same way: measured readings, a clear verdict, and a label whose next-due date you can rely on.

Book across Cheshire

Tell us your site and we will survey, quote and certify - anywhere in Cheshire.