HAVS Testing

HAVS Testing and Assessment in Loughborough

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

Practical hand-arm vibration assessment for Loughborough engineering, maintenance and grounds teams, from a consultancy fifteen minutes away.

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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.

Local knowledge

Business and Industry in Loughborough

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

Loughborough University Science and Enterprise Park
Charnwood Business Park
Belton Road Industrial Estate
Bishop Meadow Road
The Point
Meadow Lane Industrial Estate
Falcon Business Park

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.

What we see

What We Commonly Find in Loughborough

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

Who we work with

Sectors We Support in Loughborough

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 Loughborough

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

Loughborough Town Centre
Shepshed
Quorn
Mountsorrel
Sileby
Barrow upon Soar
Rothley
Syston
Birstall
Anstey

“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 Loughborough: Your Questions

How do we handle seasonal exposure in grounds maintenance?

Assess the worst realistic day in the season rather than the yearly average, because the regulations work on daily exposure. In practice that usually means the assessment shows a clear seasonal peak, and the controls, job rotation, better equipment and trigger time planning, are applied during that period.

Do groundskeeping tools really count?

Yes. Petrol strimmers, hedge cutters, mowers, chainsaws and breakers all produce significant hand-arm vibration, and some of them more than typical workshop tools. They are frequently missed from tool registers because people think of vibration as an industrial issue.

Do you provide HAVS assessment in Loughborough?

Yes. We work with employers throughout Loughborough 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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