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Recent PPC regulations have substantially increased the
burden placed upon local authorities to not only ensure
that industrial pollution is reduced, but also to
demonstrate that they are implementing the regulations
in a transparent and cost-effective manner.
Some of the recently introduced features of the regime
that are having an impact on the way local authority
officers carry out their duties include:
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The requirement for Risk Based Inspections
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Solvent Emissions Directives
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Best Value Performance Indicators
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Introduction of annual statistical returns
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Requirement to make information accessible
electronically (e-government)
How Can GeoEnviron help?
The GeoEnviron Pollution Prevention and Control module (PPC)
allows Officers to easily manage data on:
- Fees
- Permits issued, revoked etc
- Complaints
- Documentation - letters, licences etc
- Inspections - including time logs
- Risk assessments
- Emissions monitoring including wastewater
- Plant and production details
The module is equipped with a sophisticated task manager
and calendar that allows you to program inspections and
keep a track of your work load. A large selection of
standard reports allows you to quickly and easily
generate statistics and reports on inspections. Further
custom user reports can be created with the InfoMaker
Report Generator add-on.
The module also includes facilities to assist
environmental officers to cope with the requirements of
new legislation and guidance such as the Solvent
Emissions Regulations and the Risk Based Method for
Determining the Relative Level of Risk Associated with
Processes
The module includes a Samples sub-module which allows
you to manage monitoring data. In addition to this, the
powerful querying facilities within the database allow
you to quickly isolate and retrieve the data you are
interested in analyzing. Once located, the data can
easily be exported to Microsoft Excel for charting or
further manipulation.
As with all GeoEnviron modules, data from PPC can be
visualized spatially via the selection of GIS
integration facilities.
A web based public register?
GeoEnviron web solutions allow data contained within the
database to be viewed via a web browser. So you could
have your public register accessible to the public via
the internet and reduce the huge amount of time you
spend collating and managing paper based registers.
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