Face-Fit Testing in Leicester

Professional Face-Fit Testing in Leicester

If your employees wear tight-fitting respiratory protective equipment, the law requires it to be face-fit tested to the individual wearing it. A mask that does not seal offers almost no protection, and no amount of training or supervision compensates for a poor fit. We provide HSE-compliant qualitative face-fit testing at your premises.

Based in Coalville, Leicestershire, Integral Safety is ideally positioned to serve businesses in Leicester. Choosing a local consultancy means testing at your premises on a date that suits your production schedule, without sending people away or losing a shift.

Leicester's manufacturing base creates a lot of respiratory risk that is easy to underestimate. Textile and garment production generates fibre and dust, food manufacturing brings flour and powdered ingredients, and the city's plastics, printing and fabrication firms all involve substances where RPE is the last line of defence once other controls have done their work.

The problem we see most often is masks issued in good faith and never fit tested. A mask that does not seal to that particular face gives very little protection, and the wearer has no way of knowing. Testing takes about twenty minutes each and settles the question.

Leicester is the largest city in the East Midlands and its economy is unusually broad. Textiles and garment manufacturing still employ thousands across the north and east of the city, sitting alongside food production, plastics, printing, logistics and a large public sector anchored by two universities and the hospital trust. That mix means a consultant walking into a Leicester business could be looking at industrial sewing machines one day and a commercial kitchen the next.

Business parks and estates we work on

Getting to you

Leicester is about 20 minutes from our Coalville base on the A50 and M1, so we can usually offer a same-week site visit and, for urgent work, often next-day. We cover the city centre and every one of the outlying business parks.

Recurring issues we come across doing this work locally. If any of these sound familiar, they are all fixable.

• FFP3 masks issued in bulk with no record of who was tested on which model
• Wearers with beards or stubble at the seal, where no mask can pass
• One mask model bought for the whole workforce, which never fits everyone
• Tests done years ago with no retest after significant weight change

• Meet your legal duty under COSHH and the Control of Lead and Asbestos Regulations
• Genuine protection for employees rather than the appearance of it
• Documented evidence for audits, clients and enforcement
• Minimal disruption, testing takes around 20 minutes per person
• Identify wearers who need a different mask before it matters
• Support your health surveillance programme

We provide face-fit testing throughout Leicester and surrounding areas, including:

Why Choose Integral Safety?