Safety Management Systems (SMS)
Learn to develop, implement, and manage an effective Safety Management System (SMS) to systematically manage safety risks.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Modules
- 4 modules
- Level
- Intermediate
Professional Health, Safety & Environment training, delivered in the classroom, online with a trainer, or in-house at your site.
Courses
130
Online courses
116
Classroom and in-house courses
14
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For managers, HSE managers and business owners in the United States: how OSHA rules are made and read, how to be ready for an inspection, what…
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Awareness training for cleaners, janitorial and facilities staff, and the supervisors of any work area, aligned with the US OSHA housekeeping rules…
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Practitioner training aligned with the US OSHA welding standards in 29 CFR 1910 Subpart Q, compared with construction Subpart J, for welders,…
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Awareness training on ladder and stairway safety aligned with the US OSHA rules in 29 CFR 1910 Subpart D and 29 CFR 1926 Subpart X, for workers and…
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For HSE advisers, supervisors and in-house trainers who run safety training in US workplaces: which OSHA standards require training, who may deliver…
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Awareness training for new and current supervisors and team leaders in US workplaces on what OSHA rules expect from the person who directs the work:…
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How to evaluate a whole safety and health program against OSHA's Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs, for HSE managers, internal…
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Awareness training aligned with the US OSHA personal protective equipment rules in 29 CFR 1910 Subpart I and the construction rules for personal…
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Awareness training aligned with the US OSHA rules on handling and storing materials (29 CFR 1910.176, with the construction rules in 29 CFR 1926.250…
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A practical course on the US OSHA Laboratory Standard, 29 CFR 1910.1450, for laboratory managers, chemical hygiene officers, principal investigators,…
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For HSE, facilities and HR managers who set up a program to stop illness spreading at work: the OSHA sanitation standard (29 CFR 1910.141) applied in…
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An eight-hour annual refresher aligned with the OSHA HAZWOPER standard (29 CFR 1910.120 and 1926.65), for site workers and supervisors who have…
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Awareness training on the US OSHA rules for hand and portable power tools in general industry (29 CFR 1910 Subpart P) and construction (29 CFR 1926…
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For managers, supervisors, HSE staff, trainers and evaluators who run a powered industrial truck program under OSHA 29 CFR 1910.178: truck selection…
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For HSE managers, ergonomics coordinators, supervisors and occupational health staff who run an ergonomics program in a US workplace or a company…

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Practitioner training for EHS coordinators, HR and site managers who keep or sign the OSHA logs at US establishments, aligned with 29 CFR Part 1904:…

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Awareness training aligned with the US OSHA general industry standards in 29 CFR 1910, for workers, team leaders and new supervisors in…

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Awareness training aligned with the US construction safety standards in 29 CFR 1926, for construction workers, foremen, site engineers and EPC staff…

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Electrical safe work practices for electricians, maintenance technicians, engineers and supervisors in US facilities: the electrical safety program,…

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Awareness training aligned with the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (29 CFR 1910.1200) and its construction counterpart, for anyone who handles or…

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Practical training for EHS coordinators, environmental staff and supervisors at US facilities that generate hazardous waste, aligned with the federal…

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Awareness training aligned with the US DOT Hazardous Materials Regulations (49 CFR Parts 171–180) for shipping and receiving staff, warehouse…

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Awareness training aligned with the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard, 29 CFR 1910.1030, for first aiders, healthcare support staff, cleaners, waste…

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The next step after BCSP ASP Exam Preparation: independent preparation for the Certified Safety Professional (CSP) examination of the Board of…

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Independent exam preparation for the Construction Health and Safety Technician (CHST) exam, for construction safety coordinators, site safety…

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Independent exam preparation for the Associate Safety Professional (ASP) examination, following the nine domains of the current ASP11 blueprint:…

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An introduction to methane emissions for operators, technicians, HSE and environmental advisers, engineers and managers at oil and gas facilities. It…

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A beginner course on carbon capture, utilisation and storage for oil and gas engineers, geoscientists, project, HSE and commercial staff, and…

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The advanced follow-on to Contractor HSE Management, for HSE managers, contract holders, company site representatives, contracts leads and auditors…

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Organising a workplace so that abnormality is obvious and work flows. Covers the five steps, the difference between 5S and tidying, visual management…

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Preventing falls from height and protecting people below. Covers the avoid-prevent-minimise hierarchy, access equipment selection, fall arrest…

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Managing water as a resource and effluent as a controlled discharge. Covers water balance and reduction, drainage systems, trade effluent consents…

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Managing waste legally and reducing how much of it exists. Covers the waste hierarchy, classification and hazardous waste, duty of care and…

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Managing the hazards of storage and materials handling operations. Covers pedestrian and vehicle segregation, forklift stability and operation,…

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A structured incident analysis method that traces failed barriers back to organisational latent conditions. Covers the trio and the tree, immediate…

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How to run a pre-task briefing that changes what the crew does, rather than a five-minute ritual with a signature sheet. Covers preparation,…

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Risk assessment from the supervisor’s chair: planning the day’s work, verifying controls in the field, adjusting when the plan meets reality, and…

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Understanding what environmental, social and governance reporting asks for and producing it credibly. Covers the ESG pillars, materiality assessment…

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Preventing releases to ground and water, and responding effectively when one occurs. Covers storage and containment, high-risk operations like…

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Addressing the largest single cause of workplace injury. Covers the mechanics of slipping and tripping, floor surface and contamination, footwear…

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Managing the risk created when two or more activities run at the same time in the same place. Covers interaction matrices, SIMOPS plans and…

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Controlling respirable dust from construction and manufacturing processes, with particular attention to crystalline silica. Covers dust size…

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Why reducing minor injuries does not reduce fatalities, and what does. Covers the SIF concept and the flaw in the accident triangle, identifying…

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Using scaffolding safely as a user, supervisor or manager. Covers scaffold types and components, the tagging system and what a tag means, inspection…

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What leaders actually do that changes safety outcomes, beyond signing policies. Covers visible felt leadership, safety conversations that people…

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How organisational culture shapes safety outcomes, how maturity is assessed honestly, and how behavioural safety observation programmes succeed or…

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Identifying the equipment and systems that prevent or limit major accidents, and defining what each must actually do. Covers SCE identification from…

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Two accessible root cause techniques used well rather than mechanically. Covers 5 Whys and its failure modes, cause and effect diagrams, causal…

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A practical method for assessing and recording workplace risk. Covers the five-step approach, using a risk matrix without pretending it is precise,…

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Selecting, fitting and maintaining respiratory protective equipment so that it actually protects. Covers filtering versus supplied-air devices,…

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Preventing major accidents rather than personal injuries. Covers the difference between process and personal safety, the elements of a process safety…

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Measuring whether major accident defences are actually working. Covers the tiered process safety event framework, leading indicators tied to…

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The last check before hazardous material is introduced. Covers when a PSSR is required, building a review that verifies rather than confirms, punch…

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Choosing personal protective equipment that actually protects, and keeping it effective. Covers PPE as the last resort, hazard-based selection for…

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How a permit to work system controls high-risk work, and the roles that make it function. Covers permit types, the issue-and-acceptance sequence,…

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Managing the health risks of office and screen-based work, including hybrid and home working. Covers workstation setup and assessment, posture and…

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The discipline of anticipating, recognising, evaluating and controlling workplace health hazards. Covers exposure limits and how to read them,…

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The half of HSE that does not bleed. Covers work-related ill health and why it is under-managed, health risk assessment, health surveillance and its…

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Managing the impact of a site on its neighbours through noise and artificial light. Covers environmental noise assessment and rating, planning…

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Protecting hearing from permanent, painless and preventable damage. Covers how noise damages hearing, the decibel scale and exposure action values,…

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Designing and running a reporting programme that produces useful information rather than volume. Covers what to collect, removing friction, triage…

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Keeping equipment capable of doing its safety job throughout its life. Covers integrity management systems, risk-based inspection, maintenance…

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Reducing musculoskeletal injury by designing the task around the person. Covers the anatomy of back injury, the TILE assessment, risk filters and…

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Assessing and authorising change before it is made, so that improvements do not introduce hazards. Covers what counts as a change, technical,…

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Preventing contact between people and dangerous machine parts. Covers mechanical hazards and traps, guard types and selection, interlocks and safety…

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Why process material escapes, and what to do about it. Covers containment integrity and degradation mechanisms, the leading causes of LOPC events,…

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Isolating hazardous energy so that equipment cannot start or release while people work on it. Covers all energy types, isolation standards and…

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Planning and executing lifts safely, from a routine forklift move to a complex tandem crane operation. Covers lift categorisation and planning, sling…

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Turning investigation findings into organisational change that lasts. Covers why lessons are not learned, writing and distributing alerts people…

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A semi-quantitative method for deciding whether the protection around a hazardous scenario is enough. Covers initiating event frequency, independent…

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Managing the risk of driving as a work activity. Covers the scale of work-related road risk, journey planning and authorisation, driver fitness and…

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Breaking a job into steps, finding the hazards in each, and agreeing controls with the crew who will do the work. Covers task breakdown, hazard…

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A clause-by-clause orientation to the international standard for occupational health and safety management. Covers worker participation, hazard…

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An orientation to the international standard for environmental management systems. Covers environmental aspects and impacts, compliance obligations,…

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How health, safety, environment and quality fit together as one management system rather than four competing programmes. Covers the Plan-Do-Check-Act…

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How to merge separate safety, environmental and quality systems into a single integrated management system without losing the detail that each…

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Capturing what happened, consistently and without suppressing it. Covers what counts as a reportable event, actual versus potential severity,…

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Running an investigation that finds causes rather than culprits. Covers investigation planning and team selection, evidence gathering, interviewing…

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Who is responsible for what in an HSE management system, from the board to the operative. Covers line accountability versus advisory roles, RACI for…

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Choosing HSE measures that drive the right behaviour, calculating the standard injury rates correctly, and reporting performance so that decisions…

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The structure of health, safety and environmental law and the duties it creates. Covers goal-setting versus prescriptive regulation, duties of…

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Establishing that people can do safety-critical work, not just that they attended a course. Covers what competence actually means, identifying…

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Controlling welding, cutting, grinding and any other ignition source in a workplace where flammables may be present. Covers gas testing, the fire…

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Working safely in hot environments, indoors and out. Covers thermoregulation and heat illness, the factors beyond air temperature, WBGT and work-rest…

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The hazard and operability study explained for engineers and operations staff joining their first HAZOP. Covers nodes, parameters and guidewords,…

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Running a hazard identification workshop that finds real hazards rather than filling a register. Covers guideword-driven study, assembling the right…

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Controlling substances hazardous to health, from inventory through assessment to verified control. Covers GHS classification and labelling, reading a…

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Classifying areas where flammable atmospheres may occur, and controlling ignition sources within them. Covers zones for gases and dusts, gas groups…

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Finding the hazards before they find you. Covers the difference between hazard and risk, energy-based hazard spotting, systematic identification…

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Managing vibration exposure from powered tools and from vehicles and plant. Covers hand-arm vibration syndrome and carpal tunnel, whole-body…

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Reducing the injury category that dominates most workplace statistics. Covers the mechanisms of hand injury, line of fire and pinch points, hand tool…

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Using portable and fixed gas detection correctly and responding to what it tells you. Covers sensor technologies and their limits, bump testing and…

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Storing, dispensing and transferring flammable liquids without creating a fire or explosion. Covers flash point and vapour behaviour, storage…

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How fire starts, spreads and is controlled in the workplace. Covers the fire triangle and classes of fire, ignition sources and fuel control,…

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Carrying out a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment for a workplace. Covers the five-step method, identifying fuel and ignition sources,…

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Working safely below ground level: locating buried services, preventing collapse, controlling access and managing water, spoil and plant around the…

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Getting everyone out and knowing that you have. Covers evacuation strategies, the role of fire marshals, muster point selection, personnel…

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Holding and complying with environmental permits and consents. Covers permit types and conditions, best available techniques, building a compliance…

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How everyday work affects air, water, land and resources, and what every employee can do about it. Covers pollution pathways, waste and resource use,…

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Identifying how an organisation interacts with the environment and deciding what matters. Covers the aspect-impact distinction, lifecycle and…

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Reducing energy consumption systematically rather than opportunistically. Covers the ISO 50001 framework, energy review and significant energy uses,…

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Building an emergency plan people can actually follow under pressure. Covers scenario selection, command structure and roles, alerting and…

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Designing, running and learning from exercises that genuinely test a response capability. Covers the ladder from seminar to full-scale exercise,…

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Recognising and avoiding electrical hazards for anyone working around electrical equipment. Covers shock and arc flash, safe systems of work and…

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Assessing risk at the point of work, when conditions differ from the plan. Covers the Take 5 / Step Back structure, recognising change, stop-work…

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Preventing objects falling from height onto people below. Covers static and dynamic dropped objects, the DROPS calculator and consequence assessment,…

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Driving techniques that reduce the chance of being involved in a collision, whoever is at fault. Covers observation and hazard perception, space…

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Managing the consequences of a serious event beyond the immediate emergency response. Covers crisis team structure and decision making under…

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Managing the safety of work done by other organisations on your behalf. Covers prequalification and selection, specifying HSE requirements in…

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Recognising a confined space, controlling entry, and being able to get someone out. Covers atmospheric hazards and gas testing, isolation and…

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Measuring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions credibly. Covers the greenhouse gases and their potencies, organisational boundaries, scopes 1, 2 and…

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Building bow-tie diagrams that make barriers, threats and consequences visible to everyone from the boardroom to the workface. Covers hazard and top…

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Managing the ecological impact of a site and the land it occupies. Covers ecological survey and constraints, protected habitats and species, the…

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Recognising asbestos-containing materials and avoiding disturbing them. Covers asbestos types and health effects, where ACMs are found in buildings…

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Deciding how much risk reduction is enough, and recording the decision so it stands up. Covers the tolerability triangle, gross disproportion,…

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Controlling emissions to atmosphere from combustion, process and fugitive sources. Covers pollutants and their effects, permits and emission limits,…
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