Face-Fit Testing in Nottingham

Professional Face-Fit Testing in Nottingham

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 Nottingham. 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.

Face-fit testing comes up across a wide range of Nottingham employers: construction and refurbishment contractors working on the city's older building stock, manufacturing and engineering firms on the Colwick and Lenton estates, and healthcare and laboratory settings where RPE is used for specific procedures.

Refurbishment work is the one that catches people out. Any disturbance of the fabric of a pre-2000 building raises the possibility of asbestos, and the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 require RPE to be suitable for the wearer. That means fit tested, recorded, and clean shaven at the seal.

Nottingham pairs a dense retail, hospitality and leisure core with substantial employers in healthcare, higher education, financial services and the creative and digital sector. Around the edges sit long-established manufacturing and distribution operations, and across the city there is an exceptional concentration of student housing and houses in multiple occupation, which brings its own fire safety duties.

Business parks and estates we work on

Getting to you

Nottingham is roughly 35 minutes from Coalville via the A42 and M1, or the A6 for the western side of the city. We cover the city centre, the suburbs and the industrial estates on the Colwick and Lenton sides.

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

• Refurbishment contractors with RPE on site but no fit test records to show
• Agency and subcontract workers arriving without evidence of a valid test
• Reusable half masks in shared use with no cleaning or storage regime
• Fit tests carried out on a different mask model to the one actually issued

• 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 Nottingham and surrounding areas, including:

Why Choose Integral Safety?