VISITORS attending the renowned RWM exhibition (11-12 September) will have the opportunity to learn about Tidy Planet’s turnkey Waste-to-Energy plants, which feature pioneering solid waste boiler regulating technology – the Artificial Vision System (AVS) – from Sugimat. Despite having worked on multiple projects in the UK, it’s the first time the two firms have exhibited together in this...
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WAMITAB welcomes waste return changes
THE Environment Agency has announced that changes to the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 mean that operators of permitted waste facilities will need to include details of which technical competence scheme they are complying with in their waste returns in future. For those who subscribe to the CIWM/WAMITAB Operator Competence Scheme this includes...
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Help Shape the future of Operator Competence Qualifications – Attendance Limited, book now!
WAMITAB are offering a unique opportunity to employers, assessors and verifiers to become involved in the review of units from the Operator Competence Scheme at two development workshops in July. As you will be aware, in the early part of 2015 we held an extensive consultation to seek industry views on the validity, currency and...
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Keeping Operations Safe and Legal
The waste and recycling industry accounts for only about 0.5% of the employees in Britain, but 2.6% of reported injuries to employees (2.2% fatalities, 2.6% major/specified and 2.7% of over-seven-day injuries) according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) statistics for 2013/14. These statistic include four fatal injuries to workers and one fatal injury to...
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WAMITAB: Validate Delivers What Employers Want
Launched in May 2014, with a strong focus on health and safety compliance, Validate is an on-the-job assessment tool, which complements and supports in-house training and relevant work experience. Employers and training providers have endorsed Validate as an easy-to-use tool for verifying training and skills in the workplace and to “validate” workplace competence. Modular approach...