HAVS Testing

HAVS Testing and Assessment in Coalville

Name: Integral Safety Ltd
Address: 53 John Cooper Way, Coalville, Leicestershire, LE67 4AP, GB
Telephone: 01530 382 150
Price range: ££

Quarrying, construction and engineering all put Coalville employers in scope for hand-arm vibration. We are based in the town, so assessment is easy to arrange.

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Professional HAVS Testing in Coalville

Hand-arm vibration syndrome is permanent, entirely preventable and one of the most common causes of long-term occupational ill-health in industry. If your employees regularly use grinders, sanders, breakers, needle guns or similar tools, you need to know their exposure and put controls around it. We assess exposure and help you build a programme that works.

Based in Coalville, Leicestershire, Integral Safety is ideally positioned to serve businesses in Coalville. Choosing a local consultancy means an assessment carried out while your people are doing the actual work, with a consultant who can return easily to review it.

Around Coalville the highest hand-arm vibration exposures tend to sit with quarry and aggregates operations, construction and demolition contractors, and the engineering and fabrication firms on the local estates. Breakers, grinders, and drills used for extended periods are all well capable of exceeding the exposure limit value in a single shift.

Small trade firms are the ones most likely to have no assessment at all, usually because nobody has ever asked. That changes the moment they work for a principal contractor who does ask, and it changes very awkwardly if a former employee makes a claim years later.

Local knowledge

Business and Industry in Coalville

Coalville and the wider North West Leicestershire district have shifted from coal to distribution. The town sits at the junction of the A42, A511 and M1, which has made it one of the busiest logistics locations in the country, and Bardon Hill quarry remains a major industrial presence. Alongside that sit engineering firms, builders merchants, manufacturers and a substantial trade and construction sector.

Business parks and estates we work on

Bardon Industrial Estate
Bardon Hill Quarry
Stephenson Industrial Estate
Whitwick Business Park
Coalville Business Park
Warren Park Way
Interlink Park
Castle Donington distribution parks

Getting to you

Coalville is home. Our office is on John Cooper Way, so for local businesses we are usually minutes away and can often attend the same day.

What we see

What We Commonly Find in Coalville

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

Breaker and drill use in construction well above the limit value on some days
Small firms with no tool register and no exposure calculation at all
Hire tools used without knowing their vibration magnitude
No health surveillance despite obvious high-exposure work

Who we work with

Sectors We Support in Coalville

Practical, sector-specific advice for the kinds of workplaces we visit every week.

What we do

Our HAVS Testing Services

Hand-arm vibration exposure assessment
Tool inventory and vibration magnitude review
Exposure calculation against the action and limit values
Trigger-time monitoring advice
Tool selection and rotation guidance
Health surveillance programme design
Employee awareness briefings
Written assessment and prioritised action plan

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The difference it makes

Benefits for Your Business

Meet your duties under the Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005
Prevent permanent, irreversible harm to your employees
Know your real exposure instead of assuming it is acceptable

Defensible records if a claim is ever made
Target spending on the tools that actually matter
Support your occupational health provider with real data

Coverage

Areas We Cover in Coalville

We provide HAVS testing throughout Coalville and the surrounding area, including:

Coalville Town Centre
Bardon
Hugglescote
Whitwick
Ellistown
Ibstock
Ravenstone
Thringstone
Swannington
Donington le Heath

“Integral Health and safety Consultants have been undertaking H&S audits for the past twelve months on one of our large value developments. They have dealt with various issues that we have had very quickly using minimal hassle to us. Their Site Visits are weekly and their paperwork is always prompt. We would recommend Integral Health and safety consultants to any business that wants a reliable and professional company to take care of their health and safety issues.”

Mick Starkey S & S Contracting Ltd

Questions

HAVS Testing in Coalville: Your Questions

We hire most of our tools. How do we assess exposure?

Ask the hire company for the vibration magnitude of the specific tool, which they should be able to provide, and record it against the job. Hire fleets vary in condition, so where a tool is clearly worn it is safer to assume higher vibration than the nominal figure. We help set up a simple system for capturing this without creating a paperwork burden.

Can you assess a small firm without a lot of paperwork?

Yes, and it should be proportionate. For a small trade business the useful output is a short tool list with real values, a calculation for the worst realistic day per role, and a clear statement of what to do about it. That is defensible and usable. A forty-page document nobody reads is neither.

Do you provide HAVS assessment in Coalville?

Yes. We work with employers throughout Coalville and the surrounding area, assessing exposure on site during normal operations, because a tool's stated vibration figure and its real-world exposure are rarely the same thing.

What are the exposure action and limit values?

The Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005 set a daily exposure action value of 2.5 m/s² A(8), above which you must take action to reduce exposure and provide health surveillance, and a daily exposure limit value of 5 m/s² A(8), which must not be exceeded. These are calculated over an eight-hour reference period, so both the tool and the trigger time matter.

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