Occhnet is Registered on the Government's official Register of Occupational Safety and Health Consultants

All reputable employers recognise the benefits of providing healthy and safe working conditions for their staff. Sensible health and safety at work helps to maintain a productive workforce and contributes to economic prosperity and growth.
But health and safety legislation is complex and employers – particularly those in small and medium businesses – are often unclear about what they need to do to meet their legal obligations. While some larger employers have in-house health and safety advisers, and there is a lot of helpful advice and guidance freely available from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), many employers turn to health and safety consultants for professional help.
Unfortunately, the standards of consultation currently available are variable. There are no minimum standards for health and safety consultants and no way for employers to ensure that the advice they are being given is accurate and proportionate to the needs of their business.
The Government will clamp down on the rogue health and safety advisers who cost industry so much money by giving them advice which bears little relation to the actual requirements of legislation. To achieve this the Government have launched an Occupational Safety and Health Consultants Register (OSHCR) for those health and safety practitioners who are properly accredited to one of the professional bodies in the industry.

Applicants must be a member of a UK health and safety professional body and have a degree level qualification, a minimum of two years experience and engagement with a continued professional development scheme. This is usually at Chartered, Fellow or Registered Member status.

Occhnet is proud to be listed in the OSHCR register Occhnet OSHCR Details

Local Exhaust Ventilation Testing

Thousands of British workers contract occupational asthma and other occupational lung diseases each year. They develop them because they breathe in too much dust, fume or other airborne contaminants at work. Local Exhaust Ventilation Systems are commonly used to control these exposures, but they must be thoroughly tested.

OCCHNET LTD

OCCHNET is a fully independent occupational health, safety and environmental consultancy, formed to meet the need for a professional, reliable and cost effective service to industry. It provides expert advice and practical assistance on chemical and physical hazards both in, and from, the workplace, and can offer a wide range of services and training courses to clients to help them meet the requirements of UK legislation.

Local Exhaust Ventilation Testing

Regulation 9(2) of COSHH requires a thorough examination and test of all local exhaust ventilation (LEV) systems, normally every 14 months.

To fully comply with Regulation 9 may require the following for each LEV system: -

a)         capture velocity measurements at each extraction point

b)        air flow measurements in each duct

c)         determination of which branches in a multi-branch system can be used at the same time

d)        static pressures at key positions

e)         fan speed and rotation

f)         the adequacy of make-up air

g)         whether the contaminant was returned to the workplace.   

                       

Performance criteria should be set for each system and the actual performance compared with those criteria.

The comprehensive set of base-line data listed above is called a Part I examination or "fingerprinting". Subsequent tests in future years (Part II examinations) ensure that the systems have not deteriorated since the previous examination.

OCCHNET LTD undertakes Part I & Part II thorough examination and testing of the LEV systems.

 

Contact Occhnet on LEV testing or any other services for cost effective and professionally qualified solutions.

Telephone: 01994 232977

Fax: 01994 232976

Email: info@occhnet.co.uk

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Occupational Exposure Assessment

Using chemicals, dusts or other hazardous substances at work can put people’s health at risk, so the law requires employers to control exposure to hazardous substances to prevent ill health. They have to protect both employees and others who may be exposed by complying with the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) (as amended).

OCCHNET LTD

OCCHNET is a fully independent occupational health, safety and environmental consultancy, formed to meet the need for a professional, reliable and cost effective service to industry. It provides expert advice and practical assistance on chemical and physical hazards both in, and from, the workplace, and can offer a wide range of services and training courses to clients to help them meet their legislative requirements.

OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE MONITORING

OCCHNET LTD can undertake occupational exposure monitoring in accordance with recognised sampling methodology in order for employers to fulfill the requirements of the UK Regulations.

Occupational exposure monitoring is undertaken to determine the level of exposure within the workplace to substances hazardous to health and is compared with UK Workplace Exposure Limits (WEL’s).

Exposure monitoring enables the employer to determine the level of risk associated with the work process and to ensure that control measures are working correctly.

Occhnet will provide guidance on appropriate monitoring requirements to ensure that employers can demonstrate compliance with the COSHH regulations.

Occhnet is professionally qualified to produce a detailed survey report giving the results of sampling, the adequacy of control measures and requirements for further controls as appropriate.

  

 

Contact Occhnet: www.occhnet.co.uk, info@occhnet.co.uk

 

How Important Is Safety To You?

How important in Health & Safety to your business?

Increasing demands on business through competition and economic circumstances mean that companies without effective health & safety arrangements, protecting the workforce from risk, are at a disadvantage.

Risk reduction is good business. Occhnet can help you identify, evaluate and control hazards within the workplace. Occhnet provides qualified, accountable expertise to complement and strengthen your company knowledge, delivering practical solutions.

Occhnet training and information courses ensure that all your team are given the tools and knowledge to continually evaluate and review your safety systems.

Occhnet provides advice to large industry and small with national and international scope. Occhnet is dedicated to delivering solutions to ensure legislative compliance and safeguarding employee safety and health.

Remember, we work to live, not live to work. Occhnet can help you work safely so that you and your employees get to live life to the full.

Occhnet should be your first call.

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