Benefits of installing a Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) system

Matt Brown | Published September 4th 2025 | Updated September 15th 2025

In our latest guide, discover the benefits of installing a Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) system and why you need dust and fume extraction in your production environment.

Learn about what Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) entails

Find out about the benefits of installing an LEV system in your production environment

Discover how to implement dust and fume extraction systems

What is a Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV)?

A Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) system is an effective method for controlling the presence of airborne contaminants within a factory environment, capturing harmful dusts and fumes at their source and stopping them from entering the working atmosphere.

There are many benefits to be felt from installing an LEV system for your business, handily broken down in our guide below.

What are the benefits of installing Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV)?

Advantages of LEV systems range from helping to protect the health of your employees, to maintaining the cleanliness of your facility.

By installing an LEV system, you can expect to:

Save on maintenance costs, by reducing downtime. Beyond affecting staff, the build-up of dust can contribute towards unexpected machinery breakdowns, which can be expensive. While you’ll face an initial outlay for the installation of an LEV system, you’ll see long-term cost savings through continuous, uninterrupted production cycles and less maintenance call outs.

Comply with important legal requirements like COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) and Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 2002 (DSEAR), which ensure you’re controlling hazardous substances in the workplace through appropriate measures. By keeping on top of these regulations, not only will you keep your staff safe, but you’ll decrease the likelihood of any penalties or liability claims arising from dust exposure.

Keep your workforce happy, by making their work environment as comfortable as possible. The legal requirements are in place for a reason – long term dust and fume exposure can cause respiratory issues, and potentially even lung cancer. LEV systems make sure your employees are working in clean, dust-free atmospheres, protecting their health and wellebing now and into the future.

Enhance your productivity via a more efficient workforce. A happy workforce is a more productive one, and by having the correct measures in place to keep the work environment contaminant-free, you’ll see a focused, more energetic team, and in turn, a more efficient production line.

Improve your quality control, by stopping contaminants from entering the production line. In areas like food and pharmaceutical production, where hygiene is of utmost importance, contaminants can have a huge impact on the end product. Maintain the integrity of your processes, by installing an LEV that removes airborne dust at source.

How can I install a Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) system?

Dust and fume control is a vital aspect of sustaining an efficient production environment, improving air quality, and keeping your staff safe.

When properly designed, installed, and maintained, an LEV system will continuously remove airborne contaminants at the point of origin, capturing them within a filter mechanism.

Here at APS, we provide a full service, right the way through from an initial assessment of your needs, to annual servicing and parts replacement when needed.

We’ll give you detailed drawings of our proposed system, taking you through each part of the design and how it will improve dust and fume control in your production environment, whilst fitting seamlessly into your facility.

Once the design is approved by you, our P601 qualified engineers will then install the LEV system with minimal disruption to your business and provide your employees with instruction on how to safely use it.

We’ll then keep in touch for regular testing, service, and maintenance, so you can be safe in the knowledge that your LEV system will keep operating at its best well into the future.

Ready to get started? Get in touch with our top team now, and see how we can dramatically improve your production process.