HAVS Testing and Assessment in Derby

Professional HAVS Testing in Derby

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 Derby. 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.

Derby has probably the highest concentration of hand-arm vibration risk in the region, because so much of its economy involves finishing metal. Fettling, linishing, grinding, needle gunning and die dressing are all high-vibration operations, and they are often done for extended periods.

This is also a supply chain where customer audits ask specific questions. A tier one manufacturer will want to see your exposure calculations, your tool register, and evidence of health surveillance for anyone above the action value. Vague assurances do not survive that conversation.

Derby is one of the country's leading centres for advanced manufacturing and engineering, with aerospace, rail and automotive at its core and a deep supply chain of specialist SMEs feeding them. That supply chain is where most of our Derby work sits: precision engineering, fabrication, surface treatment and assembly firms who face higher-hazard processes and demanding customer audits.

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Getting to you

Derby is about 30 minutes from Coalville up the A38 or A50. We regularly work along the Ascot Drive and Raynesway corridor and out to Pride Park and Sinfin.

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

• Fettling and linishing operations well above the action value with no surveillance
• Tool registers not updated when equipment is replaced or repaired
• Exposure calculated once, years ago, with no review after process changes
• Customer audits asking for records that exist only as informal knowledge

• 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

We provide havs testing throughout Derby and surrounding areas, including:

Why Choose Integral Safety?