But perhaps one thing puts the subject into sharper context than any other; the real threat to building managers and proprietors of prosecution should extract systems not comply with the regulations of the Health & Safety Commission which states that such systems should be subject to a ‘suitable’ system of cleaning and maintenance.

It is therefore a matter of both personal and corporate responsibility that you know the codes and what they mean.

Extract-Awair is always available to you on a consultancy basis – and this is a hugely effective way for you to ensure compliance and to understand how to discharge your duty of care. But to support your business now and ongoing, this website maintains a library of the codes and regulations. Click on the links below to get access to the relevant documents (including guidance and notes where applicable).

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The condition of an extraction system is dependent on many factors; the intensity of its use, the frequency and quality of cleaning, the system design, its age, and the accessibility of critical parts of the ductwork. So every system is unique, but all systems share one thing in common:

Your legal obligation to clean and maintain the system to acceptable standards.

Extract-Awair can help you to understand those obligations, and can support you in four key areas:

• assist you in the interpretation and application of the B&ES TR/19 guidance
• audit your extraction systems to put you in a position of detailed and specific knowledge of each system for which you have a responsibility
• project manage alterations to existing systems to ensure full compliance
• design management protocols to ensure your continued safety and compliance

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Commercial kitchens tend be characterised by the following designs:

• Established premises pre-dating modern compliance standards. Older established kitchens often present considerable challenges to maintenance. Extract-Awair will investigate such systems, presenting you with detailed reports (including photography) itemising issues around accessibility, grease build-up, options for improvement, required remedial actions and recommendations for future maintenance.
• Conversion premises with architecture which limits system design. Conversions are increasingly popular particularly within town-centre premises where the pre-existing architecture will, to some extent, prescribe the overall design of kitchens. It is vitally important (not least to save considerable time and money later) to engage our services early in the design process so that a compliant extract system is proposed and subsequently installed.
• New-build premises permitting best practise system design. New-build kitchens offer little excuse for designers failing to propose non-compliant systems, and yet it’s surprising how often such systems require remedial action. We regularly see systems that were compliant on paper, but which were rendered non-compliant by poor installation or were compromised by secondary systems or services which denied proper access to the full length of the ductwork.

All our work is fully supported by our own industry-leading expertise, professional indemnity guarantees and will be carried out in full compliance with regulatory standards and industry best-practise.

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