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Welcome and thank you for visiting the
Envirotest Environmental Consultants Website.
Diesel
Vehicle Emission Testing
Envirotest Environmental Consultants CC
offers diesel
vehicle emission testing throughout South Africa
Envirotest Environmental Consultants CC uses the
Lucas Hartridge Smokemeter 4, for
diesel
vehicle emission testing. Testing is conducted on your
premises and a scientific report of the testing will be
issued to your company for submission to the ISO
Certification auditors to confirm compliance with the
South African air pollution legislation.
Please contact us with any queries you might have.
Recognised Standard & Legislation
ISO 14001 is an international standard for
environmental
management systems (EMS’s) and is based on three key
principles:
1) Prevention of pollution
2) Compliance with
relevant environmental law
3) Continual improvement in
both the system and environmental performance.
 The
regulations that dealt with noxious or offensive gases
emitted by diesel driven vehicles, R1651 dated 20
September 1974 has been repealed together with the
Atmospheric Pollution Prevention Act (APPA), No.45 of
1965 on the 1st of April 2010. APPA has now been
replaced by the National Environmental Management: Air
Quality Act, No. 39 of 2004. Each municipality is now
responsible to deal with diesel vehicle emissions within
their own areas of jurisdiction by means of promulgating
and enforcing their own by-laws. These by-laws determine
the maximum allowed exhaust emissions for all
diesel-driven motor vehicles. A Model Air Quality
Management By-Law, which, inter alia, deals with diesel
vehicle emissions, has been promulgated by the
Department of Environmental Affairs on the 2nd of July
2010 for easy adoption and adaption by municipalities.
Compliance with promulgated by-laws, as well as with the
company’s Environmental Management System, should be
determined during the annual auditing of your company.
To ensure that your company is in full compliance,
annual testing of all diesel-driven vehicles is
recommended.
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