HAVS Testing and Assessment in Leicester

Professional HAVS Testing in Leicester

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 Leicester. 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.

Hand-arm vibration risk turns up across Leicester's manufacturing base wherever powered hand tools are used for a meaningful part of the day: fabrication and metalwork, plastics finishing, maintenance departments, and construction and grounds maintenance operations.

The recurring mistake is assuming exposure is acceptable because nobody has complained. HAVS develops slowly and the early symptoms, tingling and numbness in the fingers, are easy to dismiss. By the time someone reports blanching, permanent damage has usually been done.

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.

• Tool registers listing manufacturers' vibration figures rather than real-world values
• No record of trigger time, so exposure cannot actually be calculated
• Old, poorly maintained tools vibrating far more than their stated figures
• Health surveillance not in place despite exposure clearly above the action value

• 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 Leicester and surrounding areas, including:

Why Choose Integral Safety?