Independent and impartial training for source testers, process operators, equipment suppliers and other emission-monitoring professionals.
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.
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.
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.
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 EN 14181—Stationary source emissions - Quality assurance of automated measuring systems (AMS) (CEM systems) is one of the most significant and demanding standards to be developed by CEN and it has far reaching consequences for Regulators, Equipment Manufactures, Test Houses and most importantly - Process Operators.
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.
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.
A requirement of the OMA scheme is for process operators to carry out periodic auditing of stack-emission monitoring. On-site auditing refers specifically to checking that the personnel carrying out monitoring do so in accordance with the agreed site-specific protocol (SSP) and documented procedures.
BS EN 14181—Stationary source emissions - Quality assurance of automated measuring systems (AMS) (CEM systems) is one of the most significant and demanding standards to be developed by CEN and has far reaching consequences for Regulators, Equipment Manufacturers, Test Houses and Process Operators.
TE 1 Particulate measurement.
TE 2 Trace element (dioxins, metals etc) measurement.
TE 3 Gaseous measurement by manual extractive measurement.
TE 4 Gaseous measurement by instrumental analysers.
This course is designed to provide an introduction to stack-emission monitoring and is useful for anyone who needs to understand the legislative context along with the basic principles and measurement techniques associated with stack emissions monitoring.
Sample questions relating to the MCERTS Personnel Competency Examinations.
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