The STA is committed to encourage the personal and
professional development of practicing source testers and students and
provide training courses on various aspects of emission monitoring.
The training arm has grown over the years following
requests from its members to provide independent and impartial training courses. The first course, working at
heights, started in 1997 after the unfortunate fatality of a stack
tester. This course, which is based on the STA Risk Assessment Guide:
Industrial-emission monitoring, has been updated at regular intervals to
take into account the new health and safety legislation. Upwards of 2000
delegates have been on the course since its inception.
Risk Assessment - Industrial Emission Monitoring
The STA has been running this course for over 20 years and is based on the freely available STA guidance document “Risk Assessment Guide— Industrial-emission monitoring” which has become the industry standard and reference in the Environment Agency Technical Guidance note M1.
Regulatory Monitoring Requirements for Process Operators
The purpose of the course is to provide an understanding of the requirements of the Environment Agency’s MCERTS and Operator Monitoring Assessment schemes. This will increase process operators’ awareness of their role in managing emissions monitoring and so improve their OMA audit score.
On Site Auditing
A requirement of the OMA scheme is for process operators to carry out periodic auditing of stackemission monitoring. On-site auditing refers specifically to checking that the personnel carrying out monitoring do so in accordance with the agreed sitespecific protocol (SSP) and documented procedures.
BS EN14181 quality assurance of an AMS
A requirement of the OMA scheme is for process operators to carry out periodic auditing of stackemission monitoring. On-site auditing refers specifically to checking that the personnel carrying out monitoring do so in accordance with the agreed sitespecific protocol (SSP) and documented procedures.
TE1: particulate monitoring
TE 1 Particulate measurement.
TE2: trace element sampling
TE 2 Trace element (dioxins, metals etc) measurement
TE3: gaseous monitoring by manual
methods
TE 3 Gaseous measurement by manual extractive measurement
TE4: gaseous monitoring by instrumental methods
TE 4 Gaseous measurement by instrumental analysers
Foundation Course- Introduction to MCERTS level 1
This course is designed to provide an introduction in Emission Monitoring and to train the delegate to MCERTS Standard Level 1.
Level 2 Team Leader (2 day)
This course is designed to provide training for the progression from Leve1 to Level 2.
