| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 環境工程學研究所 === 93 === It has been more than ten years for the Republic of China in Taiwan to have the accreditation system for the environmental analysis organizations (EAOs). After the environmental enterprises are mandated to have an effective measure, which is called the self-reporting mechanism, for environmental pollution controls, and which is under the “Basic Environment Act” set by Environmental Protection Administration, the EAOs play accordingly an important and effective
role in the career of environmental pollution controls.
The testing data provided by EAOs are not only useful for the factories as the guidelines of pollution prevention and improvement in practice, but also useful for the competent authority as the essential references to enforce pollution controls, surveillance and assessments.
Logically, the quality of data is negatively related to profits and loading capacity of the EAOs. In addition, a good quality of data is based on the management system of the EAOs. However, the quality of testing data provided by EAOs recently has the risk of degradation due to certain factors, such as the immaturity of the management system for EAOs, shortage in enactment and manpower, and imbalance between supply and demand in the environmental analysis.
This study is focused on “Air Pollutants Measurement in Stationary Pollution Sources” as an example to estimate the employees and equipments capacity required for the disclosed measurements, to project the optimal supply of analysis manpower and equipments capacity in the whole environmental analysis market, and to provide positive suggestions
for policymaker in managing and accrediting the EAOs.
The result of this study reveals that the capacity of the available EAOs measuring “Air Pollutants Measurement in Stationary Pollution Sources” is nearly equal to the estimated optimal supply of analysis manpower and equipments capacity in the environmental analysis market. Nevertheless, that the EAOs are qualified and then start to expand their business for a good profit brings undesirable consequences in which supply exceeds the demand, particularly, in the approved item of dioxins sampling. Therefore, after the EAOs are qualified, there is a need to
supervise their testing capacity and analysis skills.
This study has proposals to prevent the undesirable consequences in terms of long-term and short-term strategy for the management of the EAOs. For long-term strategy, the competent authority should formulate and promulgate the regulations of “Environmental Analysis Management Act” and “Licensing of the Analysis Personnel.” For short-term strategy, the EAOs are requested to set up satisfactory processes for their testing data, including the real time tracking system of sampling, intensive professional training, personnel specialty collaboration, sampling auditing procedures, reasonable rate of auditing and evaluation, monitoring testing capacity and market survey aimed at supply and demand status in the
related field timely.
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