HAVS Testing and Assessment in Nottingham

Professional HAVS Testing in Nottingham

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 Nottingham. 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.

In Nottingham the businesses most often affected are construction and refurbishment contractors, facilities and maintenance teams working across the city's large public and university estates, and manufacturing operations around Colwick, Lenton and Bulwell.

Maintenance teams are frequently overlooked because their vibration exposure is intermittent. Someone who uses a breaker for two hours on Tuesday and nothing for the rest of the week can still exceed the daily exposure action value on that day, and the regulations work on a daily basis.

Nottingham pairs a dense retail, hospitality and leisure core with substantial employers in healthcare, higher education, financial services and the creative and digital sector. Around the edges sit long-established manufacturing and distribution operations, and across the city there is an exceptional concentration of student housing and houses in multiple occupation, which brings its own fire safety duties.

Business parks and estates we work on

Getting to you

Nottingham is roughly 35 minutes from Coalville via the A42 and M1, or the A6 for the western side of the city. We cover the city centre, the suburbs and the industrial estates on the Colwick and Lenton sides.

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

• Maintenance teams excluded from assessment because exposure is intermittent
• Tool rotation policies that exist on paper but not in practice
• Anti-vibration gloves relied on as a control, which they are not
• No system for reporting symptoms, so early cases go unrecorded

• 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 Nottingham and surrounding areas, including:

Why Choose Integral Safety?