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Overview

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

• Explain the fundamentals of fugitive dust, including particulate matter size fractions (PM₁₀ and PM₂.₅) and their health and environmental impacts
• Interpret legislation and regulatory requirements governing fugitive dust management and environmental compliance
• Identify and assess fugitive dust sources and risks across construction, mining, aggregates, site remediation, and heavy industrial operations
• Develop and implement effective fugitive dust management and control plans that mitigate off‑site impacts and meet regulatory standards
• Manage monitoring, documentation, and reporting requirements related to fugitive dust issues across a variety of projects

Description:

Fugitive dust management is a critical consideration for large infrastructure projects, site remediation activities, mineral extraction, and many large industrial operations. Poorly controlled fugitive dust can result in regulatory non-compliance, project delays, environmental harm, and impacts to health and safety.

The primary tool for managing off-site fugitive dust is the development and implementation of a dust management and control plan, which is typically submitted to regulators for review and approval. This course provides participants with a practical understanding of how fugitive dust is generated, how risks are assessed, and how effective dust management strategies are developed and implemented.

Drawing on experience from a variety of dust control projects, this course applies concepts in a case study format to support the development of practical, defensible dust management plans. Participants are encouraged to bring forward their own case studies or problems for discussion; where this is not possible, prepared case scenarios are provided.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for professionals involved in environmental management, regulatory compliance, and project execution, including:

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

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Syllabus

The Basics of Particulate Matter

• Size fractions - TPM, PM₁₀ and PM_2.5
• Relative importance
• Composition (metals, silica, and other air toxics)
• Legislative and health aspects

Mechanisms for Generation & Transport

• Science of airborne dust
• Factors that influence dust generation and propagation, such as weather conditions and wind patterns, site layout, local terrain, and moisture content

Sector Sources

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

Source Quantification

• Source silt content measurement, emission factors
• Metals, semi-volatiles, and respirable silica
• Source apportionment

Case Study – Part 1 Sources

Impact Assessment

• The concept model
• Health and ecological risk assessment
• Ambient monitoring networks
• Dispersion modelling – benefits, problems and pitfalls

Mitigation

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

Case Study – Part 2 Impact Assessment

Monitoring

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

Putting it All Together

• The dust management and control plan
• Complaint response
• Discussions with the regulator

Case Study – Part 3 Dust Management and Monitoring

Instructor

Linda Lattner, M.Eng., P.Eng.

Linda Lattner is a licensed professional engineer and is the technical lead for the Air Quality Practice in Ontario. She has over twenty years of experience in air quality assessment and compliance management.

Her primary responsibilities include air quality compliance management, emission inventory development, greenhouse gas quantification and mitigation studies using GHG frameworks and protocols of Canadian and other global agencies, air dispersion modelling, developing and overseeing ambient air monitoring programs, annual environmental reporting, and leading the air quality technical component of Environmental Assessments and permitting assessments.

With experience that includes notable work for gold and iron ore mining clients, power projects, municipal landfills, and industrial facilities. Linda has provided air quality and fugitive dust management support for mining projects; the cleanup of the radioactive waste repository in Port Granby; Toronto Transit Commission’s Leslie Barns site remediation and facility construction; the remediation of the former gold mine site in Deloro, Ontario; Waterfront Toronto’s Lakefilling Project; and for Metrolinx projects in southern Ontario.

Mrs. Lattner has worked with Environment and Climate Change Canada, where she reviewed the GHG reduction potential for major projects subject to federal or provincial environmental assessment. She has also worked for the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment as co-author of a study on the Adequacy of Ambient Air Quality Monitoring in Canada. She has developed guidance materials for the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change to support the provincial odour policy and led a training workshop for Ministry operations staff.