Exhibit 23

                    INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT ON FINANCIAL
                         STATEMENT SCHEDULES AND CONSENT

The Board of Directors
BHA Group Holdings, Inc.:

The audits referred to in our report dated November 1, 2002 included the related
financial statement schedule as of September 30, 2002 and for each of the years
in the three-year period ended September 30, 2002, included in the 2002 Annual
Report on Form 10-K. This financial statement schedule is the responsibility of
the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on this
financial statement schedule based on our audits. In our opinion, such financial
statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated
financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material
respects, the information set forth therein.

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the registration statement (No.
33-58782) on Form S-8 of BHA Group Holdings, Inc. of our reports dated November
1, 2002 relating to the consolidated balance sheets of BHA Group Holdings, Inc.
and subsidiaries as of September 30, 2002 and 2001, and the related consolidated
statements of earnings, shareholders' equity, comprehensive income and cash
flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended September 30, 2002,
and the related schedule, which reports are included in the September 30, 2002
Annual Report on Form 10-K of BHA Group Holdings, Inc.

Our report, dated November 1, 2002, on the consolidated financial statements
described above refers to the change in the method of accounting for goodwill
and other intangible assets effective October 1, 2001.

/s/ KPMG LLP

Kansas City Missouri
November 6, 2002