Odour Compliance in Ontario

This breakfast seminar is intended for owners, plant managers, maintenance managers, EHS managers, operators or those responsible for industrial facilities with processes that generate continuous or intermittent odour or that have the potential to generate off-property odour complaints. 

Pinchin has particular expertise with odour assessment, control strategy development and implementation. This seminar will show you why you need specialists on your team.

Odour can be an unfortunate by-product of many industrial processes including seemingly benign activities such as bakeries or consumer food products and complaints can arise if there are sensitive receptors downwind. To complicate the matter, anyone can be a sensitive receptor since everyone has their own personal analyzer (nose) that subconsciously evaluates the air that they breathe. 

In Ontario, the Environmental Protection Act defines odour as a contaminant that must be addressed when applying for provincial air approvals (CofA) and when complaints arise.  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. Complaints reported to the Ministry of the Environment are treated seriously as evidenced by frequent reference on their website to Environmental Protection Act Section 14 (adverse effect) orders or fines and the financial burden of odour abatement can be substantial.

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. 

The first portion of this seminar will discuss our provincial odour guideline, odour detection, recognition and complaints and we’ll demonstrate odour controls and abatement strategy development through a case study. 

Odour Analysis Workshop Included:

The second half of the presentation will include a hands-on odour analysis workshop where each participant will be given the opportunity to sniff odour samples and gain an understanding of the important regulatory distinction between detection and recognition thresholds and how we use these results in our MOE negotiations. Participants will analyze samples following MOE protocol using a dynamic dilution olfactometer. This one (1) hour workshop is entertaining, informative and essential if you currently have odour issues at your plant.

Presenter:

This seminar will be delivered by Phil Girard, P.Eng., who has over 25 years experience in consulting.  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.