Emission Testing Services

Our Approach

Many stationary source operators (SSOs) report that emission testing (ET) programs present significant challenges for their facilities. Often, SSOs have trouble identifying qualified ET firms, encounter logistical problems when test teams arrive on site, receive test reports late, struggle with confusing data, and are invoiced in excess of quoted prices. Frustrated, many SSOs have come to accept these problems as part of the emission testing business.

Over the past 4 decades WESTON has built a national ET practice that eliminates these problems. Key attributes of the practice include:

• Practice Organization and Resources – WESTON's Emission Testing Practice (ETP) is a national practice with multimillion dollar test equipment resources, operating from offices across the country. Unlike many ET firms that tout a national presence, WESTON has standardized its operations across the practice. As a result, test teams can be readily assembled from various offices, deployed to test locations, and function seamlessly to respond to testing needs efficiently and cost-effectively.

• Project Management Approach – WESTON follows a true project management model for ET. Each project is assigned a Project Manager who is technically competent in the ET area and who has the responsibility for delivering the resources required for your project. This approach ensures that our clients always have direct and immediate access to the person responsible for their job and enables us to consistently meet scheduling requirements and report deadlines.

• Quality Management Approach – WESTON operates under a quality management system model based on ANSI E4-1994 "Specifications and Guidelines for Quality Systems for Environmental Data Collection and Environmental Technology Programs" and EPA QA/R-2 "EPA Requirements for Quality Management Plans." The WESTON ET Practice has accreditations from the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) and the Louisiana Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (LELAP).

• Internal Laboratory Capabilities – We have found that in-house analytical capabilities allow us to better control chain-of-custody, improve data turn around time, resolve problems quickly, and accommodate special sample archive requirements. For these reasons, WESTON performs all analytical work in-house except that requiring highly specialized capabilities.