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Congratulations to Liz Berry of Casey's on completing her award - she can be seen receiving her certificate from the awarding body (EMP) External Verifier. Also in the picture is her assessor - Alan Wallace, SERAC's Internal Verifier - Martyn Johnston and Eric Turner of ProSkills who developed this new award. It is aimed at weighbridge operators - primarily in the Extractives and Waste Management Sectors - for details please see the Award Overview on our website - link or contact SERAC's office.
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SERAC will be on stand T25 at the CIWM 2008 Exhibition, Torbay.
Please come along to discuss:
- Environmental Permitting Regs 2007
- VRQ’s / EPOC / Continuing Competence
- Operator Competency Scheme
- NVQ’s
- e-assessment
- Courses - IOSH / CIWM / CIEH
To use SERAC's online visitor registration service for the CIWM 2008 Exhibition click the link below.
http://www.reg-box.co.uk/ciwmshow/default.aspx?pcode=T25
and select "New Registration".
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Environmental Permitting Regulations 2007 – this is a major change to the competency requirements for the management of waste – see the new dedicated areas of our web site under Waste & Recycling and Brochures with the latest advice and documents.
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- WAMITAB APPROVES SERAC FOR DEFRA VRQ
Further to being approved for Level 3 training, SERAC has now received approval from WAMITAB for Level 4 training 'Award in Waste Treatment Technologies'. This course is aimed at providing professionals within the waste industry with a detailed understanding of the practical aspects of advanced waste treatment processes.
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DEFRA - Consultation on Environmental Permitting Programme (EPP) and Waste Technical Competence
Defra and the Welsh Assembly Government has launched the fourth Government EPP consultation for a streamlined environmental permitting and compliance system.
The consultation addresses guidance on the European Directive requirements for environmental permitting and specific proposals for demonstrating the revised technical competence for permit holders of waste operations. These proposals, if implemented, would bring about a significant change to the existing COTC scheme.
You are invited to respond before the consultation closes on 10 October 2007.
For details of the consultation package go to:
www.defra.gov.uk/environment/epp
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TRAINING AND CAPITAL GRANTS AVAILABLE
SERAC draws your attention to the availability of grants to organisations who are registered in the East of England (Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire or Bedfordshire).
The rules for the grants are as follows:
1. Capital Grants
£10,000 for equipment that diverts waste from landfill and increases employment. These grants are currently due to expire March 2008. Applicants will be required to put together a short business case as part of their application.
2. Training Grants
Up to £1,400 per employer for any non-statutory training - this must be completed by 30th November 2007. So the training grant could be used for one, or a number of employees up to this value. The employer is required to contribute 50% of the costs if they employ more than 250 employees, or 30% if they employ less than 250 employees.
If you are interested in either, or both, of these schemes please contact us for further details.
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- WAMITAB APPROVES SERAC FOR DEFRA VRQ
Lawrence Strong, Director General of WAMITAB, is pictured below presenting SERAC MD Don Glaister with the UK's first ever centre approval for the new DEFRA VRQ training programme. Don Glaister commented that he was delighted SERAC had been granted this status.
SERAC have already launched level 3 training for WRG as a result.
(Picture: Left, Lawrence Strong. Right, Don Glaister).
