HAVS Testing and Assessment in Loughborough

Professional HAVS Testing in Loughborough

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 Loughborough. 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.

Loughborough's engineering and precision manufacturing firms use powered hand tools routinely, and the town's large institutional estates bring grounds maintenance and facilities teams with their own exposure from mowers, strimmers, hedge cutters and breakers.

Grounds and estates work has a seasonal pattern that complicates assessment. Exposure during the growing season can be very high and then drop away almost entirely in winter, and an annual average hides the problem completely.

Loughborough combines a major university and its science and enterprise park with a solid base of engineering, electronics and precision manufacturing, plus distribution operations drawn by the M1. The university connection means an unusual number of research, laboratory and spin-out businesses in the town, which brings substances, gases and prototype equipment into the risk picture.

Business parks and estates we work on

Getting to you

Loughborough is our closest large town, around 15 minutes from Coalville on the A512. In practice that means we can often be on site the same day for anything urgent.

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

• Grounds teams with very high seasonal exposure averaged away across the year
• Strimmers and hedge cutters left out of tool registers as "not really machinery"
• Agency and seasonal staff excluded from health surveillance
• Equipment maintenance schedules focused on function rather than vibration

• 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 Loughborough and surrounding areas, including:

Why Choose Integral Safety?