Quality Control Censorship for Pollution in Cement Industry

Emission control is a measurement problem before it is an abatement problem, and a plant that cannot defend its data cannot defend its performance. This week covers the monitoring systems, continuous and periodic, their calibration and quality assurance, the abatement equipment behind the stack and what limits each, and the reporting regime. Excursion management is given its own session, because how a plant handles an exceedance usually matters more than the exceedance.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Specify a monitoring system fit for the consent it serves.
• Maintain calibration and quality assurance on continuous monitors.
• Assess abatement equipment performance and limits.
• Manage an excursion including notification.
• Report data that will withstand audit.

Environmental and compliance officers, laboratory and monitoring staff, process engineers responsible for abatement equipment, and plant managers.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A monitoring plan with quality assurance built in.
• An abatement equipment performance review.
• An excursion response and notification procedure.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.