Course Catalogue.

After participating in this course, you will be able to:

• Apply your skills in various areas including contracting, integrating health and safety, data management and reporting, inspections and investigations, negotiating approvals, and environmental management
• Understand the legislation that directly impacts fugitive dust management
• Identify practical approaches for site risk identification and environmental compliance
• Manage and report fugitive dust issues for a variety of projects

Description
Fugitive dust management is essential to large infrastructure projects, site remediation, mineral extraction and some large industrial projects. The primary tool to manage offsite fugitive dust is typically developing and implementing a dust management and control plan that is usually submitted to the regulator for approval. This course takes the participant from an understanding of the mechanisms that produce fugitive dust through the assessment of the problem and the development of a suitable dust control plan.

This is done using experience gained on various dust control projects and applied in a case study format for plan development. While participants are encouraged to bring along their own case study or problem, case scenarios will be provided where this is not possible.

Who Should Attend
Environmental Managers • Coordinators • Engineers • Scientists and Technicians • Corporate/Project Managers • Facility Managers • Plant Superintendents • Consultants • Contractors • Regulatory Personnel

Course Syllabus

The Basics of Particulate Matter

• Size fractions - TPM, PM10 and PM2.5
• Relative importance
• Toxics content
• Legislative and health aspects

Mechanisms for Generation & Transport

• Science of airborne dust
• Factors that influence dust generation and propagation, mechanical, wind, moisture, etc

Sector Sources

• Infrastructure construction/demolition
• Site Remediation
• Mining and aggregates
• Heavy Industrial – metals, cement

Source Quantification

• Source silt content measurement, emission factors
• Metal dust and source apportionment

Case Study – Part 1 Sources

Impact Assessment

• The concept model
• Health and ecological risk assessment
• Ambient Networks
• Dispersion vs receptor modelling – benefits, problems and pitfalls

Mitigation

• Dust management vs dust control
• Management activities
• Dust suppression

Case Study – Part 2 Impact

Monitoring

• Inspection and monitoring
• Monitoring protocols
• Instrumentation – discussion and examples
• Action levels, data management and reporting

Putting it All Together

• The dust management and control plan
• Discussion with the regulator

Case Study – Part 3 Dust Management and Monitoring