Newsletter #21: Pollution Control, Spa Maintenance, Biological Urinal

Accepta

Water Treatment

Speciality Chemicals

Test Kits & Reagents

Equipment

Boiler Treatment

Open & Closed Cooling

Heating

Biocides

Chlorine Dioxide Precursors

Reverse Osmosis

Base Exchange

Odour Control

Liquid Polymers

Effluent Treatment

Flocculants

Dry Polymers

Scale control

Corrosion Inhibitors

Antifoams

Water Hygiene Cleaners

Toll Blending

Own Labelling

Speciality Chemicals

Hard Surface Cleaners

Sanitizers

Chlorine Release

Oil & Grease Removers

Hand & Surface Wipes

Descaling Chemicals

Fuel Oil Treatments

Oil Dispersants

Test Kits & Reagents

L8 Test Kits

Chlorine Dioxide Test Kits

Dip slides

Incubators

pH Meters

Conductivity Meters

Comparators

Accepta Newsletter: Issue 21

Welcome to issue 21; this month we feature a number of articles including a guide to choosing cost effective pollution control measures, a legislation update concerning the transportation of dangerous goods, details of an innovative biological water saving system, plus a guide to maintaining spa pools.

If you find our newsletter useful please pass it on to friends and colleagues. And if there are any subjects you'd like to see included in future issues please e-mail me at sdooner@accepta.com.

********************

In this issue:

Choosing Cost-Effective Pollution Control.
Legislation Update - New Carriage of Dangerous Goods Regulations.
Business Skills - Quick Tips For Writing Good Ads and Sales Letters.
Innovative Biological Urinal System - Save up to £200 per year, per urinal!.
Business Skills - A Good Question For Job Candidates.
Spas – Good Maintenance Routines.

********************

Choosing Cost-Effective Pollution Control

Good Practice Guide

This good practice guide covers issues surrounding the selection of cost-effective pollution control solutions and is intended to help managers, engineers and operators save money by choosing the most suitable pollution control measures for their site as part of an overall waste management strategy. It is applicable to companies from all industrial sectors, with any type of pollution or waste problem, and outlines a step-by-step approach to choosing cost-effective pollution control.

The industry examples included in this guide describe how six companies, including Motorola, Alcoa, and Bristol Myers Squibb, chose cost-effective pollution control. Each example describes the problems faced by the company and the economic and environmental benefits achieved by following an integrated approach to pollution control.

For your complimentary copy of this excellent guide please e-mail sdooner@accepta.com quoting the full title of the document.

********************

Legislation Update

New Carrriage of Dangerous Goods Regulations for the UK

Dangerous goods, such as explosives, flammables or corrosives, have inherent hazards. There is a risk that incidents involving these hazards may cause harm to people, property and the environment, eg by explosion, fire or spillage.

In Great Britain (GB), legislation on the carriage of dangerous goods has gradually converged with international legislation. Both aim to regulate in such a way that risks are reduced as far as possible and incidents can be safely and effectively dealt with, but commerce is not impeded.

Changes

The Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations 20041 (the Carriage Regulations) apply to the carriage of dangerous goods by road and rail. They place general duties on everyone with a role in the carriage of dangerous goods, and specific duties on those in the transport chain, ie consignors, carriers, loaders, packers, etc.

The Carriage Regulations refer to the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road 20032 (ADR 2003) and Regulations concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail 20033 (RID 2003). The Regulations also implement a further Directive on transportable pressure equipment.4 They replace, by a single Statutory Instrument (SI), 12 previous Sis that regulated the carriage of dangerous goods by road and rail in GB.5

This guide covers the carriage of dangerous goods by road. It is not intended to serve as a summary of either the Carriage Regulations or ADR, but as a ‘route map’ to help you determine whether any carriage might fall within the scope of the Regulations and ADR, and guide you through working with both documents to determine the requirements that apply to you.

For your complimentary copy of this excellent guide please e-mail sdooner@accepta.com quoting the full title of the document.

********************

Business Skills

Quick Tips For Writing Good Ads and Sales Letters

Avoid making these mistakes in your copy:

Forgetting to include a reason for reading your ad. Don’t give your target audience a reason to stop reading before the get started. Ask: “Am I offering an incentive for reading my message?”. If you’re not then go back and rewrite your ad.

Using headlines that don’t excite your audience. Your readers will ignore a message if the headline fails to address their needs.

Trying to be clever. People may remember your cleverness but will probably forget your product.

********************

Innovative Biological Urinal System

Save up to £200 p.a, per urinal!

Accepta’s innovative water saving “BioSleeve” is a specially designed urinal waste trap system that once fitted could save commercial users up to £200 per urinal, per year on their water bills. It’s also far kinder to the environment, as it uses less water, it's simple to fit and much safer for maintenance and facilities staff as it eliminates the need to handle dangerous chemicals. BioSleeve's clever design means it's quick and easy to fit into most existing urinal units making it ideal for a whole range of commercial and industrial applications including offices, hotels, hospitals, motorway service stations, pubs, airports, shopping centres and more....to read the full article click here.

********************

Business Skills

A Good Question For Job Candidates

Ask a prospective job candidate you’re interviewing this question: “If I met your former boss at a party and asked to hear just one sentence about you, what would that one sentence be?”

Chances are that you’ll get a fairly accurate picture of the person.

********************

Spas – Good Maintenance Routines

When entering the wonderful world of soaking away those stresses and blues, remember the higher temperatures and relative higher bathing loads per volume of water have an effect. Controls and measurements become more critical under these conditions.

Spa Maintenance Routine

Start-up and re-start - When setting up your spa, begin by oxidising the water with Accepta Spa Granular Shock or Non-Chlorine Shock.

Daily routine - Check your sanitiser and pH level, and dirty clean waterlines with Accepta Spa Surface Cleaner.

Weekly routine - Oxidise your water with Accepta Spa Granular Shock or Non-Chlorine Shock and use Accepta Spa Sparkle for extra clarity and Anti-Foam for controlling foam or suds. Hard water areas and in areas of high (calcium) hardness, use Accepta Spa Anti-Scalant.

Fortnightly/monthly routine - Clean cartridge filters using Accepta’s Cartridge Cleaner. A well managed system should have a spare filter soaking in cartridge cleaner whilst the other is in use.

Note: Rebalance water for alkalinity and hardness (calcium) – see water testing section below.

Spa Water testing - Always test your spa water with the air blowers off as air bubbles heighten pH and reduce total alkalinity in test results.

Draining and refilling your spa - Your small volume of hotter water and relatively heavy bathing loads will promote a more rapid build-up of Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) which affect sanitiser effectiveness and can induce scaling. To prevent TDS rising above 1500ppm, drain the spa periodically. There are no hard and fast rules, although every month to six weeks is often recommended. The following formula can also be used as a guide:

(Spa Volume in Litres) divided by (Number of Daily Bathers) divided by 12 =
Days Between Draining and Re-Filling

Example - 1200 litres/2 Bathers/12 = 50 Days

IMPORTANT

If you’ve not used your spa for a while whilst the tub holds water, do not turn your air blowers on without first oxidising the water as per Start-Up instructions above and/or sanitising as per the Daily Routine. This will eliminate potential aerosol borne bacteria, which can be inhaled – please refer to our guide on Legionnaires Disease: Controlling Risks Associated with Spa's, Baths & Hot Tubs.

********************

Please recommend Accepta's newsletter to a friend

Thank you

You can UNSUBSCRIBE from this newsletter at any time by clicking here, inserting the word 'unsubscribe' in the message subject line and sending.

		Accepta Water Treatment Speciality Chemicals Test Kits & Reagents Equipment Boiler Treatment Open & Closed Cooling Heating Biocides Chlorine Dioxide Precursors Reverse Osmosis Base Exchange Odour Control Liquid Polymers Effluent Treatment Flocculants Dry Polymers Scale control Corrosion Inhibitors Antifoams Water Hygiene Cleaners Toll Blending Own Labelling Speciality Chemicals Hard Surface Cleaners Sanitizers Chlorine Release Oil & Grease Removers Hand & Surface Wipes Descaling Chemicals Fuel Oil Treatments Oil Dispersants Test Kits & Reagents L8 Test Kits Chlorine Dioxide Test Kits Dip slides Incubators pH Meters Conductivity Meters Comparators

	Accepta Newsletter: Issue 21 Welcome to issue 21; this month we feature a number of articles including a guide to choosing cost effective pollution control measures, a legislation update concerning the transportation of dangerous goods, details of an innovative biological water saving system, plus a guide to maintaining spa pools. If you find our newsletter useful please pass it on to friends and colleagues. And if there are any subjects you'd like to see included in future issues please e-mail me at sdooner@accepta.com. ********************
	In this issue: Choosing Cost-Effective Pollution Control. Legislation Update - New Carriage of Dangerous Goods Regulations. Business Skills - Quick Tips For Writing Good Ads and Sales Letters. Innovative Biological Urinal System - Save up to £200 per year, per urinal!. Business Skills - A Good Question For Job Candidates. Spas – Good Maintenance Routines. ****************** Choosing Cost-Effective Pollution Control Good Practice Guide This good practice guide covers issues surrounding the selection of cost-effective pollution control solutions and is intended to help managers, engineers and operators save money by choosing the most suitable pollution control measures for their site as part of an overall waste management strategy. It is applicable to companies from all industrial sectors, with any type of pollution or waste problem, and outlines a step-by-step approach to choosing cost-effective pollution control. The industry examples included in this guide describe how six companies, including Motorola, Alcoa, and Bristol Myers Squibb, chose cost-effective pollution control. Each example describes the problems faced by the company and the economic and environmental benefits achieved by following an integrated approach to pollution control. For your complimentary copy of this excellent guide please e-mail sdooner@accepta.com quoting the full title of the document. **************** Legislation Update New Carrriage of Dangerous Goods Regulations for the UK Dangerous goods, such as explosives, flammables or corrosives, have inherent hazards. There is a risk that incidents involving these hazards may cause harm to people, property and the environment, eg by explosion, fire or spillage. In Great Britain (GB), legislation on the carriage of dangerous goods has gradually converged with international legislation. Both aim to regulate in such a way that risks are reduced as far as possible and incidents can be safely and effectively dealt with, but commerce is not impeded. Changes The Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations 20041 (the Carriage Regulations) apply to the carriage of dangerous goods by road and rail. They place general duties on everyone with a role in the carriage of dangerous goods, and specific duties on those in the transport chain, ie consignors, carriers, loaders, packers, etc. The Carriage Regulations refer to the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road 20032 (ADR 2003) and Regulations concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail 20033 (RID 2003). The Regulations also implement a further Directive on transportable pressure equipment.4 They replace, by a single Statutory Instrument (SI), 12 previous Sis that regulated the carriage of dangerous goods by road and rail in GB.5 This guide covers the carriage of dangerous goods by road. It is not intended to serve as a summary of either the Carriage Regulations or ADR, but as a ‘route map’ to help you determine whether any carriage might fall within the scope of the Regulations and ADR, and guide you through working with both documents to determine the requirements that apply to you. For your complimentary copy of this excellent guide please e-mail sdooner@accepta.com quoting the full title of the document. **************** Business Skills Quick Tips For Writing Good Ads and Sales Letters Avoid making these mistakes in your copy: Forgetting to include a reason for reading your ad. Don’t give your target audience a reason to stop reading before the get started. Ask: “Am I offering an incentive for reading my message?”. If you’re not then go back and rewrite your ad. Using headlines that don’t excite your audience. Your readers will ignore a message if the headline fails to address their needs. Trying to be clever. People may remember your cleverness but will probably forget your product. **************** Innovative Biological Urinal System Save up to £200 p.a, per urinal! Accepta’s innovative water saving “BioSleeve” is a specially designed urinal waste trap system that once fitted could save commercial users up to £200 per urinal, per year on their water bills. It’s also far kinder to the environment, as it uses less water, it's simple to fit and much safer for maintenance and facilities staff as it eliminates the need to handle dangerous chemicals. BioSleeve's clever design means it's quick and easy to fit into most existing urinal units making it ideal for a whole range of commercial and industrial applications including offices, hotels, hospitals, motorway service stations, pubs, airports, shopping centres and more....to read the full article click here. **************** Business Skills A Good Question For Job Candidates Ask a prospective job candidate you’re interviewing this question: “If I met your former boss at a party and asked to hear just one sentence about you, what would that one sentence be?” Chances are that you’ll get a fairly accurate picture of the person. **************** Spas – Good Maintenance Routines When entering the wonderful world of soaking away those stresses and blues, remember the higher temperatures and relative higher bathing loads per volume of water have an effect. Controls and measurements become more critical under these conditions. Spa Maintenance Routine Start-up and re-start - When setting up your spa, begin by oxidising the water with Accepta Spa Granular Shock or Non-Chlorine Shock. Daily routine - Check your sanitiser and pH level, and dirty clean waterlines with Accepta Spa Surface Cleaner. Weekly routine - Oxidise your water with Accepta Spa Granular Shock or Non-Chlorine Shock and use Accepta Spa Sparkle for extra clarity and Anti-Foam for controlling foam or suds. Hard water areas and in areas of high (calcium) hardness, use Accepta Spa Anti-Scalant. Fortnightly/monthly routine - Clean cartridge filters using Accepta’s Cartridge Cleaner. A well managed system should have a spare filter soaking in cartridge cleaner whilst the other is in use. Note: Rebalance water for alkalinity and hardness (calcium) – see water testing section below. Spa Water testing - Always test your spa water with the air blowers off as air bubbles heighten pH and reduce total alkalinity in test results. Draining and refilling your spa** - Your small volume of hotter water and relatively heavy bathing loads will promote a more rapid build-up of Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) which affect sanitiser effectiveness and can induce scaling. To prevent TDS rising above 1500ppm, drain the spa periodically. There are no hard and fast rules, although every month to six weeks is often recommended. The following formula can also be used as a guide: (Spa Volume in Litres) divided by (Number of Daily Bathers) divided by 12 = Days Between Draining and Re-Filling Example - 1200 litres/2 Bathers/12 = 50 Days IMPORTANT If you’ve not used your spa for a while whilst the tub holds water, do not turn your air blowers on without first oxidising the water as per Start-Up instructions above and/or sanitising as per the Daily Routine. This will eliminate potential aerosol borne bacteria, which can be inhaled – please refer to our guide on Legionnaires Disease: Controlling Risks Associated with Spa's, Baths & Hot Tubs. ********************
	Please recommend Accepta's newsletter to a friend Thank you



You can UNSUBSCRIBE from this newsletter at any time by clicking here, inserting the word 'unsubscribe' in the message subject line and sending. Accepta Superior Water & Wastewater Treatment Supplies ©2004 Accepta