Risk Assessment for Odour in Kitchen Extracts
The Risk Assessment for Odour is scored by ranking an establishment using the following form. By using this form in conjunction with the EMAQ+ guidance, system designers can obtain odour control equipment suggestions based on their score. With this information and a duty airflow, Airclean will assist you in creating a specification for your Kitchen Exhaust Odour Control System.
The EMAQ+ document “Control of Odour and Noise from Commercial Kitchen Exhaust Systems” is often used by local authority Environmental Health Officers as a basis for odour mitigation in restaurants seeking change of use or planning consent.
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Carbon Filter
Electrostatic Precipitator
Kitchavent 2000 / 3000 / 4000
Kitchen Extract AHU
Controlled Ozone Injection System
Airclean Odour NeutraliserFAQ - Odour Risk Assessment for Kitchen Extracts
The “DEFRA Guidance on the control of odour and noise from commercial kitchen exhaust” has been the go to guidance for the design of kitchen extract systems, and selection of odour control filtration since 2011, but was formally withdrawn in 2017.
This withdrawal was done to empower local authorities to make their own choices, but left Environmental Health, planning officers, and the industry, with no formal guidance to follow when approving planning applications, or assessing premises that were causing both noise and odour nuisances.
As a result of this a company called the Ricardo has employed the original author of the DEFRA guidance (Dr. Nigel Gibson) to recreate the guidance along with some updates, and offer this for use which is called “EMAQ+”.
This has been well adopted by local authorities and the industry alike, with many professionals (public and private sector) taking a course offered by Ricardo on the new EQMA+ guidance.
To help provide guidance on the type of equipment needed to prevent nuisances from odour, smoke, and excess grease in a kitchen extract, EMAQ+ offers an odour risk assessment. This assessment considers four key factors—Dispersion, Proximity of receptors, Size of kitchen, and Cooking type—to generate a score and recommend a level of odour control.
Based on this level, the EMAQ+ guidance suggests nuisance control equipment and specifies contact times for activated carbon filtration to appropriately remove odours from your kitchen.
Completing an Airclean odour risk assessment will send the information you provide to our technical team. They will then be able to give you a score and a recommended level of odour control for your kitchen.
Using either the provided airflow volume or the face velocity method for your canopy size, Airclean aims to quote the kitchen extract filtration equipment needed to meet the EMAQ+ guidance.
This assessment provides a basis for a solution, and the technical team aims to process it within 24 hours.
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Your Risk Assessment for Kitchen Extract Odour Control
The following Risk Assessment for Odour Control form will guide our technical team in making an initial selection of Odour Control Equipment that may be suitable for use in your catering establishment. Should you have any questions, please call the sales team for assistance at 01622 832777.