Sector — pharmaceutical
Pharmaceutical Fume Cupboard Maintenance
In a validated environment the documentation matters as much as the airflow. Testing, maintenance and filtration with records that line up with yours.
Why pharmaceutical is different
A visit that is not documented properly creates work rather than closing it
Elsewhere, a test certificate is filed and forgotten until the next inspection. In a validated environment it has to reconcile with your own qualification and change-control records, and a certificate that does not carry the right identifiers, readings and dates is a deviation waiting to be raised.
The same applies to the work itself. Anything that alters airflow — a fan, a filter change, altered ductwork, a recalibrated monitor — may require requalification on your side. We would rather know that before we touch the unit than after, so tell us what your change-control process needs and we will work to it.
Access is the other constraint. Production and analytical areas release equipment in defined windows, and we plan to those rather than expecting the laboratory to accommodate us.
Documentation that reconciles
Certificates referenced to asset numbers, with measured readings recorded rather than pass or fail alone.
Change-control aware
We flag work that affects airflow before doing it, so requalification is planned rather than discovered.
HEPA and ULPA filtration
Particulate filtration for potent compounds and powder handling, and ULPA where HEPA is insufficient.
Planned shutdown windows
Work programmed into the access windows you already operate to.
What we do
Services for pharmaceutical laboratories
Compliance
COSHH sets the floor. Your quality system sets the rest
COSHH Regulation 9 requires engineering controls to be examined and tested at intervals of no more than 14 months and maintained in efficient working order. That is the statutory minimum and it applies to every laboratory in the country.
In a pharmaceutical setting your own quality system usually demands more: defined periodic intervals, controlled documentation, and traceability of any change affecting a qualified environment. We are not the authors of your quality system, and we will not pretend to be — but we will supply the evidence it needs, in the form it needs, on the schedule it specifies.
Testing is to BS EN 14175, with HSG258 and BS 7989 applied to LEV and extract systems.
Pharmaceutical FAQs
More on our full FAQ page.
Tell us what your quality system requires — identifiers, measured values, acceptance criteria, sign-off — and we will provide it. It is far easier to agree that before the first visit than to reissue certificates afterwards.
That is your call, not ours. What we will do is tell you in advance where a proposed repair or replacement affects airflow, so it can go through change control rather than being discovered later. Routine testing and calibration normally do not.
We service fume cupboards, laminar flow cabinets, biological safety cabinets and LEV extract systems, and supply HEPA and ULPA filtration for them. Tell us the equipment list and we will confirm what falls inside our scope before quoting.
Yes. Our engineers are directly employed rather than subcontracted, so the same people attend your site and complete your induction once rather than a different contractor each visit.
Tell us what your quality system needs
We will confirm scope, documentation and access before quoting. Site surveys are free.