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The STA continues to support its members whether it be by technical support to the members or their customers, members accessing the wealth on information and guidance notes via our members area of the website, taking advantage of our training and revision courses or by attending the STA task group meetings. These meetings are the main driving force of the STA which allow Test laboratories, Equipment suppliers, Process operators, Regulators, Certifi cation and Accreditation bodies, to come together and discuss relevant topics and issues arising. The latest meeting was hosted by Veolia in November at their offi ce in Kingswood and like many meetings post COVID it meeting was held as a hybrid allowing our members to attend in person or virtually. The general meeting was split into 4 sub-groups, Health and Safety – Quality and Technical – Process Operators and Equipment Suppliers, each subgroup had full agenda’s covering topics:
Health and Safety
• Site work – working hours including traveling time • Accidents and incidents. •Yellow Book update 2022. • HSE Update Quality and Technical • UKAS accreditation and issues arising
CSA update • Personal and equipment MCERTS certifi cation
Environment Agency • Number of fi eld blanks • Storage temperature of Hg samples
Scottish Environmental Protection Agency • CEO – Update • Brominated POPs
Profi ciency Testing Schemes • Overview of schemes run by NPL • Overview of schemes run by EffecTech
CEN and ISO feedback and update Events & Publicity • CEM 2023 • AQE 2022/2024
Process Operators • BREF Update
• Carbon and Biogenic • Feedback from PO’s • Plans for the POTG in 2023
Equipment Suppliers • Ambient temperature effects on monitoring equipment • Frequency of leak checks • Security of remote access • Feedback from Equipment suppliers • Feedback from CEMs end users • Availability of spares. (Supply chain issues)
Your STA
The STA meetings and task groups are available for all STA members to attend and contribute. If you are an existing STA member and not already involved in the valuable work the STA does or if you are interested in becoming a member, please email
info@s-t-a.org and one of the team will contact you.
WWW.ENVIROTECH-ONLINE.COM FOCUS ON TRAINING
The STA has developed a series of revision training courses based on the syllabuses for the MCERTS personnel competency standard.
The revision courses are designed to highlight the depth of knowledge the candidates are required to know to enter for the examinations.
MCERTS Personnel competency • TE1 – particulate monitoring Course Contents: • Standards review • Sample train components • Sample location
• Preliminary work and quality control • Calculating stack gas volumetric fl ow rates • Calculating fl ow rates in a sample train • Units and reference conditions • An introduction to trace species • Sampling equipment for trace species • Calculations
TE3 – Gaseous measurement by manual extractive measurement Course Contents: • Introductions • Representative sampling • Batch sampling • Water vapour • Hydrogen chloride • Hydrogen fl uoride • Halogens and halides (excluding HCl and HF) • Sulphur dioxide, sulphur trioxide and total sulphur • Ammonia
• Other wet chemistry methods • Speciated VOCs • Other tube/fi lter methods • Calculations
TE4 – Gaseous measurement by instrumental analysers Course Content: • Introductions
• Sampling gases using instrumental techniques • Optical instrumental techniques • Non-optical instrumental techniques • Calibration and maintenance • Calculations
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