What should be on your LEV checklist?

What should be on your LEV checklist?

LEV stands for local exhaust ventilation and is very important in industries with harmful airborne particles such as in food and carpentry. LEV works by capturing emissions at the source and filtering or transferring them away from an area where it can cause harm the...
What Does Local Exhaust Ventilation Mean?

What Does Local Exhaust Ventilation Mean?

Local Exhaust Ventilation commonly referred to as LEV, is an engineering control solution that captures and removes dangerous particles that contaminate the air including dust, mist, fumes, vapour and gas.  Why Do We Need LEV? Breathing in large quantities of...

Welding Fume Extraction Installation – Case Study

Proposal: The company required the fumes from the welding processes to be extracted safely from the premises. They only required one extraction system with six points of extraction. All points of extraction will need to be In use at the same time. Two extraction...

HSE Announce All Welding Fumes Now Recognised as Carcinogenic January 2019

On 14th January 2019 at the LEV Industry Regulatory Forum, hosted and chaired by ILEVE, the HSE announced that all welding fume is to be recognised as a cancer-inducing substance in humans. This change is of immediate effect and therefore has implications across the...