BOHS announces new qualification in LEV testing

The BOHS is introducing a new modular exam that aims to ensure that successful candidates have the expertise to determine whether LEV systems are effectively protecting employees.

Under the COSHH regulations, thorough examination and tests of local exhaust ventilation (LEV) systems must be carried out on a regular basis - in the majority of cases at least once every 14 months.

The British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) is launching a new modular exam, 'P601 Initial Appraisal and Thorough Examination and Testing of Local Exhaust Ventilation Systems', which aims to ensure that successful candidates have the expertise to determine whether LEV systems are effectively protecting employees.

It is available from January 2005 and, as with all other BOHS modules, the P601 exam has no specialist entry requirements and will usually be taken at the end of a short training course, run throughout the year by external course providers across the UK.

As an internationally-recognised professional examination and qualification body, the BOHS's Faculty of Occupational Hygiene plays a vital role in developing and maintaining the professional standards of hygienists and those working in the field of occupational hygiene and health.

Part of this involves ensuring that its range of examinations meet the needs of today's working practices, and it is to this end that the Faculty has developed P601.

David O'Malley, registrar of the Faculty, states: "I hope that having P601 will become a pre-requisite for anyone wishing to undertake LEV testing - much as P402 is for the inspection of buildings for asbestos.

"Developing benchmarking standards such as these underpins much of our progress in continually meeting our basic aim to help to reduce work-related ill-health".

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