Odour management

This is a pre-recorded webinar available until 31 March 2027. Estimated duration of this webinar is 5 hrs.

Fee = £295 plus VAT or 3 credits.

Trainer = Tim Glews and Oliver Marshall and Nigel Gibson

This advanced webinar considers the management and control of odour and noise from commercial kitchens. The webinar will consider the operational factors which define the scale of an extraction system and considers the characteristics of the extracted air stream which are important for designing pollution control equipment. As part of this we will explain how the Kitchen risk assessment should be applied as part of the planning/development process.

It will also provide an opportunity to review technical issues dealing with odour from a range of commercial kitchens including:

These real-life kitchen scenarios will examine practical examples of how kitchen operators have tried to address pollution control and will identify areas where designs commonly fail.

Odour management

Fee = £255.00 plus VAT or 3 credits or £265.00 plus VAT for non-members

Our odour acuity training & certification services provide a standardised framework for assessing an individual’s odour sensitivity to the reference compound N-butanol as indicated by Defra’s odour guidance (2010). The assessments are typically carried out over a single two-hour period in accordance with the panellist requirements of BS EN 13725.

Following the assessment, each individual’s sensitivity to the reference odorant is calculated and a certificate is issued. Confirmation of an individual’s sensitivity to odour is a valuable tool for many professionals including:

• Environmental Health Officers 
• Any operator responsible for odour evaluation within their organisation
• Environmental and Air quality consultants conducting odour impact assessments (IAQM odour guidance)

Odour management

This is a pre-recorded mini webinar, appox. 30 minutes long, available until 31 March 2027.

Fee = £65.00 plus VAT or 1 credit

Trainer = Patrick Harland

This mini-webinar considers odour from waste management facilities. Exploring the processes which take place on the sites, the areas in which potential odours can arise and the potential mitigation or management procedures often used to reduce the impact of these sites. There is also discussion on the management of waste sites with planning and the processes around dealing with when a site is causing a nuisance. The session will cover a range of different waste sites including, landfills, civil amenity sites/household recycling centres, waste transfer stations, composting facilities, and more. These sites will be detailed looking at how the factors which would influence complaints, frequency, intensity, duration, differ from each of these types of sites and how some practices may result in these factors having more of an impact.

Odour management

This is a pre-recorded mini webinar, appox. 40 minutes long, available until 31 March 2027.

Fee = £65.00 plus VAT or 1 credit

Trainer = Nigel Gibson

This mini-webinar has been prepared as a result of concern about the potential contributions of PM_2.5 from commercial kitchens to the total PM_2.5 burden. The webinar sets the scene with reference to PM_2.5 inventories and restaurant numbers in London and provides information on PM_2.5 in  some other large conurbations. It sets out the main causes of kitchen activity linked to fine particulates derived from smoke and grease. The webinar then demonstrates how, by designing, operating and maintaining the kitchen ventilation system in accordance with the EMAQ guide, the emission of fine particulate can be minimised.

Odour management

This is a pre-recorded mini webinar, approximately 50 minutes long, available until 31 March 2027.

Fee = £65.00 plus VAT or 1 credit

Trainer = Nigel Gibson and Oliver Marshall

This webinar will explain the Environment Agency’s new odour guidance, published in December 2025, and how it differs from the previous H4 guidance. We explore the Environment Agency’s increasing focus on effective odour management and control over dispersion modelling. Attendees will gain an understanding of the practical implications of the new approach.

Odour management

As an EMAQ+ member: Fee = £45.00 plus VAT  or 1 EMAQ credit

Non-member: Fee: £75.00 plus VAT