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Arc Specialist Meeting 2007

Arc Specialist Meeting 2007

Representatives from all companies within the Arc Network attended the yearly specialist meeting. Engineers, Sales Consultants and Senior Employees met to discuss the latest developments in the air conditioning industry.

A full range of topics were discussed, including:
- Preferred Method of Leak Testing
- Safe Criteria for Working at Heights
- Effect of the new Smoking Legislation in the workplace, and company cars
- How best to achieve a reduction in energy and CO2 emissions
- Best source of Copper Supply for R410a systems.

With regard to reducing refrigeration leakage levels, and therefore, improvements to the running costs, reliability and environmental performance of your existing air conditioning systems the government has produced a Good Practice Guide. Guide 178 encourages owners, users and purchasers of air conditioning to choose maintenance and installation contractors who are registered with Refcom and so bring them into the mandatory scope for regrigerant handling. It also advises that the service and installation staff of your air conditioning equipment should possess an ACRIB 'registered refrigerant handling identity card' as proof of their gaining a recognised qualification; and as required by British Law, by virtue of the UK Ozone Depleting substances regulation 20061510, and the recently implemented F-Gas Regulation.

Etherington Air Conditioning hold these qualifications, and we respectfully request, to enable the industry to maintain the highest standards of environmental care, your company chooses only suppliers, like us, who hold these qualifications.