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Clearing the Air: The Importance of a Fume Extraction System for Welding Safety

When it comes to welding, safety should always be a top priority as the process of welding involves the release of harmful fumes and gases that can pose serious health risks to welders if not properly controlled. This is where a fume extraction system plays a crucial role. A fume extraction system is designed to […]

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LEV Log COSHH Testing

LEVLog®. Your COSHH LEV Testing Resource

LEV systems are designed to protect workers from hazardous dust and fumes. The law is that the employer must maintain LEV system performance and should also arrange a thorough examination and test at least every 14 months. To quote the HSE, “Regulation 9 of COSHH requires that any control measure taken to comply with regulation 7 must

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Hazardous-Fumes

LEV Testing Regulations

The Health and Safety at Work Act and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (C.O.S.H.H.) states that employers must assess the risks to their workers from hazardous substances – dusts, fumes, vapours, etc. – and decide what measures to use to protect their health. This means that if you work in certain industries that produce potentially harmful dust

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Why is it important to remove welding fumes from a work environment?

The metal industry produces all sorts of contamination such as welding fumes, grinding dust and oil mist and typically, the smaller the welding particles, the more harmful they are to the human body. It is essential that employers create a healthy and safe working condition by reducing these risks to employees’ health and this is done

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Welding Fumes. Protecting Your Workforce

Recently, the International Agency for Research on Cancer has suggested that welding fume exposure including fume generated when welding Mild Steel can cause a range of cancers including kidney cancer. This means that ALL companies must protect their workers from the harmful welding fumes by minimising the potential exposure not only of employees but also

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Workplace Covid Security

Workplace Covid Security

With over 40-years’ experience in the implementation of fume extraction and air movement systems, Western Air Ducts are specialists in industrial and commercial workspace air quality solutions. This means we are ideally placed to work with you to implement Covid security improvements through the control of air movement and circulation within your space. As part of this process

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Replacement of Fire Damaged System for Shred-It

After overcoming the initial issue of extinguishing a fire in their dust extraction system Shred-it were left with the problem of not having an operational dust extraction system to serve their recycling facility. Western Air Ducts (UK) Ltd. were able to attend promptly and work with the staff at Shred-It it to establish a plan

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Upgrade to an Ageing Dust Filtration Unit for UKCG Group

Western Air Ducts (UK) Ltd. install a new Inteliair® I40 dust filtration unit for UKCG Group in Rotherham to upgrade their ageing dust filtration unit. Coupled with a bespoke enclosure manufactured in-house and installed  beneath the new filter unit to ensure the waste collected in 1-Tonne bags from the outlet of the rotary discharge valve is

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