Introduction

Many substances used within the workplace can cause harm to health.

The HSE recently identified that 1.7 million workers suffered from work related ill health. These substances could be dusts, vapours, gases, fibres or fumes.

Ill health caused by these substances is entirely preventable.

The law requires companies to adequately control exposures to materials in the workplace that cause ill health.

These are laid out in The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations.

Employers must not carry out work which can expose their employees to any substance hazardous to health until:

“A suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to employee’s health created by that work has been carried out”

Once the risk assessment has been carried out:

“Every employer shall ensure that the exposure of his employees to substances hazardous to health is either prevented or, where this is not reasonably practicable, adequately controlled”.

Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) is the primary engineering control used to control substances hazardous to health.

We recommend the Duty Holders follow the steps below to achieve the best out of their LEV system, using our LEV Route to Control®.

• Step One - Risk Assessment

• Step Two - Specification

• Step Three - Design

• Step Four - Installation

• Step Five - Commissioning Thorough Examination and Test (TExT)

• Step Six – Service and Maintenance

• Step Seven – Routine Thorough Examination and Test (TExT) using our LEV Control Review.

Why choose us?

• Our team includes BOHS Certified Competent, LEV Testing Specialists, listed in the Professional Standards Authority Accredited Register.

• We are experts in Commissioning LEV Systems

• We have Specialist Licentiate Members of the BOHS, experts in LEV testing.

• Strategic Partnerships are in place with approved LEV Designers, Installers, DSEAR Experts and Trainers.

• We have over thirty years’ experience.

What can we guarantee?

We will provide Duty Holders with a clear pathway, and the knowledge, to control the substances hazardous to health, in their workplace.

Services:

• Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) Testing

• Workplace Exposure Assessments

• Noise at Work Assessments

• Pharmaceutical Industrial Hygiene

• Breathing Airline Testing

• Radon