Editorial Policy
How a guide gets researched, sourced and signed off, and the things we decline to publish.
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This policy governs every guide on this site.
What we choose to cover
We write about subjects where the existing material is either promotional or written for specialists. A topic earns a guide if an operator, landowner or newcomer would struggle to get a straight answer elsewhere. We do not publish to chase search volume, and the library is deliberately small.
Research and sourcing
Regulatory statements are sourced to the directive or regulation they come from, and the guide says which. Field practice is sourced to direct operational experience and stated as practice rather than requirement. Where practice and requirement differ, we say so, because that gap is often exactly what a reader needs to understand.
Our sources policy sets out what we treat as a source.
Editing and sign-off
Each author edits the other. The regulatory editor checks every guide for statements that describe what people do as though it were what is required. The field editor checks regulatory guides for whether the requirement, as written, matches what happens at a lease or a facility gate. Nothing publishes that only one of us has read.
Dating and review
Every guide carries a last-reviewed date. Regulatory guides are re-checked against the current directives periodically and whenever we become aware of a revision. When a requirement changes, the guide changes and the date moves.
What we will not publish
- Compliance advice. We explain the framework; we do not tell you that your specific situation is compliant.
- Engineering advice. Neither author is a professional engineer.
- Legal advice. Neither author is a lawyer.
- Claims about a named company's operations, safety record or conduct.
- Paid placements inside a guide. See our advertising disclosure.
- A requirement stated without a source.
Independence
We are not a disposal operator and we are not affiliated with one. No facility, service company or vendor can pay for a mention, a recommendation or a change to a guide, and we do not name specific facilities as recommended.