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Investigating to prevent: A practical guide to workplace accidents and incidents
LEV: Practical management of controls
Key Information
Duration: 1 day
Available as: face-to-face and in-house training
Price: £580 per person
Course dates
Overview
Breathing in dusts, gases, fumes and vapours in the workplace can cause serious, long-term lung damage and often incurable health problems.
Local exhaust ventilation (LEV) is the most common method of controlling workers' exposure to such airborne contaminants. Unfortunately, it is often not effective enough. Employers are regularly misled by suppliers and select and install LEV controls that don't work and/or cost too much. Once installed, LEV controls are often poorly checked, maintained and examined.
This training course will demonstrate how to successfully manage LEV systems for effective, efficient and reliable control of exposure to hazardous substances.
Learning outcomes
Delegates will be provided with information that will help them to:
- Know how to assess work processes and how they emit airborne contaminant clouds
- Understand the principles and key ways to procure effective, reliable and efficient LEV
- Know how to review and improve existing LEV
- Understand how to manage LEV suppliers and contractors
- Know the key things to put in place to manage LEV checking and maintenance, and their role in doing so
- Know the common techniques for assessing LEV effectiveness
- Know how to manage LEV examination and examiners, and be realistic about what to expect
What the course will cover
The course will demonstrate how to successfully manage LEV controls in order to get effective, efficient, and reliable control of airborne contaminants, at least cost.
Who should attend?
This course will teach delegates how to manage LEV procurement to get the right type of LEV that effectively, reliably and efficiently controls work process emissions and exposure. Delegates will learn how to critically assess, review, improve and manage modifications of current LEV controls. They will also learn how to manage LEV suppliers and contractors as well as how to manage LEV checking and maintenance so that exposure control is reliably maintained. Delegates will examine the range of techniques available for assessing LEV effectiveness, learn how to manage LEV through examination and test (TExT) and understand its limitations so that they can be realistic about what to expect.
Book your place(s)
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In-house training
This course can also be delivered to larger groups at a suitable, agreed location anywhere in the UK or internationally, online, or at the HSE Science and Research Centre. Content can also be tailored to meet organisations' own needs. Please get in touch to find out more.