Odour and Noise Compliance Breakfast

Course Type: Complimentary Breakfast

Province: Ontario

Price: $0

Breakfast Dates and Registration

No dates are currently scheduled for this course. Please call or email (Ontario, Manitoba) if you are interested in taking a course where the date has not been shown. Your name will be added to the list of individuals who will be contacted once a date has been set.

Any course currently unscheduled can be offered as an on-site course to ensure quick and informative training of your staff. Contact our Ontario or Manitoba course co-ordinator to get started today!

This breakfast seminar is intended for owners, operators or managers of processes or facilities that generate continuous or occasional odour/noise and especially for those that have received neighbourhood complaints or where residential development is encroaching on your operations.

The seminar will also introduce how we conduct acoustic assessment from taking noise measurements, modeling the noise impacts, and assess compliance against MOE noise guidelines. Development of a Noise Abatement Action Plan will also be discussed.

Background:

In Ontario the Environmental Protection Act (EPA) defines odour and noise as contaminants that must be addressed when applying for provincial Approvals to operate equipment and processes that discharges to the air. The government goes further and has an odour guideline that stipulates that the impact of your operations should not be detected by the surrounding community.

Noise:

A facility is, as a minimum, required to assess and document the impacts of the noise emissions from the facility on Point(s) of Reception in comparison to specific sound level limits contained in published ministry Noise Pollution Control (NPC) guidance documents.

Complaints reported to the Ministry of the Environment are treated seriously and the financial burden of odour and noise abatement can be substantial.

Odour:

Odour is one of the most challenging contaminants to effectively control and it is crucial that you understand the properties of odour, what our provincial guideline means, and how to develop and present your odour abatement strategy to the MOE and community.

Presenters:

Phil Girard, P.Eng., is Vice-President, Air & Noise Group, Pinchin Environmental. He has over 25 years experience in consulting.
Weidong Li, PhD., P.Eng., is a senior project engineer with the Air & Noise Group in Pinchin Environmental’s Mississauga office. His areas of expertise include acoustics, machinery vibration and industrial noise control.

If you have immediate questions or issues that you would like addressed, or if you would like Phil to meet with you at your plant to discuss your site specific environmental air and noise issues he can be contacted at pgirard@pinchin.com or (905) 363-1324.

Have a Question for our Breakfast or Course Leader ?

Pinchin delivers close to a hundred seminars per year and we recognize that some people are not comfortable asking potentially sensitive questions in an open forum. We will gladly deal with these one-on-one but if you want to email the question ahead of time, we'll make sure we answer it during the seminar. Send questions to General Inquiries.