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Safety Engineering, Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Health Services
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Essential Safety Products since 1959 has supported the industrial and construction industries with quality safety products and safety solutions. Let ESP serve your needs in the following areas:
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| Safety Consultation: Our capable and credentialed safety professionals can provide consultation on safety and industrial hygiene issues ranging from: |
• On-site safety and health audits
• Health and safety program review and assistance
• Assessments of health and safety management practices
• Job Hazard Analyses and accident investigations
• Health and safety training and education
• OSHA compliance assistance
• Workplace air and noise monitoring
• Technical guidance and information
• Printed and electronic materials on
occupational safety and health |
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Mock OSHA Inspections
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ESP will visit your job site anywhere and conduct a full-scale, OSHA-like focused inspection. Our Safety Consultant performing this inspection will conform not only to the standards, but to the latest OSHA directives and interpretations. The goal of this visit: to identify areas of non-compliance for you or your subcontractors. These mock OSHA inspections are tailored to fit the size and scope of the specific jobsite a company is working at. The time spent conducting an inspection will closely follow what a normal OSHA inspection would entail. Utilizing this service, many contractors have stated that the money spent on the mock OSHA Inspection more than paid for itself in comparison to the findings and potential penalties should it had been an actual OSHA inspection. Reports will include written documentation accompanied by photos. The findings are then analyzed and conclusions with you. |
Safety & Health Program Review
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ESP has a program to assist our customers achieve their goals of providing a safe and healthful workplace for their employees. An experienced professional safety consultant will identify safety and health hazards in your business, supply recommendations to reduce or eliminate these hazards, and assess your safety and health management program. Our goal is to help your business meet current OSHA job safety and health regulations and develop an ongoing, effective safety and health management program. We will provide you with confidential, comprehensive written reports containing our findings and recommendations.
ESP’s safety professionals are available to assist you in investigating any accident or incident in your workplace. The purpose of investigating is to analyze activities to prevent accidents or incidents that impact your company. The investigation/analysis is designed to produce factual information leading to corrective actions to prevent or reduce the number of accidents or incidents. Like other phases of the modern industrial and construction business management, accident prevention must be based on facts that clearly identify the problem. We will focus our research on finding the root cause of accidents or incidents and recommend appropriate corrective measures.
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Safety & Health Program Management System Assessment
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ESP’s safety consultants can evaluate the effectiveness of your company's Safety and Health program management system. Using assessment tools, seven major elements can bereviewed:
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• Hazard Anticipation & Detection
• Hazard Prevention & Control
• Planning & Evaluation
• Administration & Supervision
• Safety & Health Training
• Management Leadership
• Employee Participation
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ESP recognizes that an effective safety and health program management system is an asset to your company. It will reduce the number of accidents by reducing the risk of illnesses and injuries to employees, reduce the recurrence of identified hazards, and change the culture of the workplace to work safe and smart.
Developing HASPS (Health and Safety Programs) Required by the HAZWOPER Standard
Let ESP prepare your site-specific Health and Safety Plan (HASP). From the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA’s) perspective, employers who have employees on a site that falls within the scope of the Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) standard, paragraphs (b)-(o), are responsible for ensuring that their employees are protected by the provisions of an effective site-specific Health and Safety Plan (HASP). One way to accomplish this is for each employer to prepare its own HASP to address employee work activities, the associated hazards, and implemented controls. This plan must be coordinated with other contractors on the site and with the emergency response organization(s) and the medical care facilities you’ll rely on for emergency services.
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Alternatively, a single site HASP may be prepared to cover multiple contractors. Preparation of a comprehensive site HASP may promote efficiency, completeness, clarity and coordination among all parties. A company can use the site-wide or prime contractor’s HASP to protect its employees if the HASP appropriately addresses all activities and potential safety and health hazards to which its employees may be exposed. Each contractor and subcontractor, however, is ultimately responsible for complying with OSHA safety and health requirements that apply to its employees. If the site-wide or prime contractor’s HASP does not address the hazards or controls associated with your employees' activities on the site, you are responsible for working with the contractor to modify the HASP, or for developing a supplemental plan to cover the additional provisions that apply to your work operations, or developing a complete HASP if necessary.
"Turnkey" Safety Program and Training Programs
ESP’s safety and training program development strives to provide employers with the knowledge they need to keep employees safe in their work environment while providing an environment where learning experiences are both challenging and positive. ESP strives to ensure that your company can comply with OSHA standards.
Training is tailored to meet the requirements of each customer’s company, corporate culture and regulatory environment. We use a safety-training matrix to show what training is required for each OSHA Standard. Some training is required only once, some is required annually, and some is required only when conditions change or an employee demonstrates a deficiency of essential safety skills.
ESP can design a custom program for your needs, provide the specialized and individualized training required and qualify instructors, including First Aid and CPR. |
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CPR/First Aid and Automated External Defibrillator Training: ESP and ESP/ OfficeSafe® can train your employees not only in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but also in the use of automated external defibrillators |
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Defensive Driving Program and Training: ESP can help you establish defensive driving programs based on the National Safety Council program in order to reduce vehicular accidents
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Forklift and Industrial Truck Operator Training: ESP can train your employees in accordance with OSHA’s Industrial Truck standard by using the National Safety Council Forklift Training Program.
Noise Level Surveys and Dosimetry Testing: ESP offers a full range of dosimetry and noise level analysis through its comprehensive industrial hygiene services. Instrument calibration and service is also available |
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Air Sampling: ESP can perform air sampling for particulates, fumes, mists and vapors by use of certified industrial hygienists. Laboratory analysis of air samples is normally available within 48 to 72 hours. |
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Asbestos Training: ESP can help in meeting all of your asbestos training needs for your employees. Training is conducted under the supervision of our certified industrial hygienists.
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Confined Space Entry and Rescue Program and Training: ESP’s safety and technical services specialists can help you to design a comprehensive permit required confined space program that is compliant with OSHA’s 29 CFR 1910.146 standard. ESP can train your employees on safe confined space entry and operations, equipment maintenance and inspection, atmospheric monitoring and non-entry rescue. |
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Excavation/Trenching Competent Person Training and Certification: ESP can provide your construction crews with competent person training as required under OSHA’s Excavation and Trenching Competent Person requirement. |
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Ergonomic Assessment and Evaluation: ESP and ESP/ OfficeSafe® can perform detailed ergonomic evaluations and analyses of office, industrial and construction jobs and tasks. ESP’s Certified Professional Ergonomists (CPEs) and Certified Industrial Ergonomists (CIEs) can help you to implement comprehensive ergonomic programs, reduce injury and illness experience, reduce workers’ compensation costs associated with musculoskeletal disorders and design for ergonomic and ADA accommodation of a diverse workforce. |
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Process Hazard Analysis: ESP can team-lead process hazard analyses under both OSHA’s PSM Standard and EPA’s Risk Management Program for highly hazardous chemicals and chemical processes. ESP has PHA facilitators who can use Checklist, Hazard Operability Studies (HAZOP), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and/or Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) techniques to analyze potential hazards and consequences, both on and off-site. ESP has particular expertise in anhydrous ammonia and chlorine processes. |
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Process Safety Information: Another PSM and RMP requirement, ESP can help in the development of P&IDs (piping and instrumentation diagrams), pressure vessel certification documentation through the National Board (U-1s, U-2s, U-4s and R-certificates), manufacturers’ performance data and development of safe operating procedures. |
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Hazardous Materials and HAZWOPER Training: ESP can provide detailed HAZMAT programs and training for Levels 1 through 5 (Awareness, Operations, Technician, Specialist and Incident Commander) that meet you specific site, facility, hazardous material and chemical process needs. ESP has the ability to train all aspects of Level A and SCBA use for both industrial and weapons of mass destruction (WMD). |
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Expert Witnessing: ESP’s safety, industrial hygiene, health, environmental and engineering professionals can provide detailed forensic support and expert witness services in a court of law for administrative, civil and criminal proceedings.
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Contact us at 303-286-7135 or speak to one of our sales representatives in order for us to help assess your needs in all areas of environmental health and occupational safety service needs.
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Industrial Hygiene Service
ESP is recognized in the Rocky Mountain Region as the leader in industrial hygiene instrumentation used by a variety of people from industrial hygienists
to first responders, in a wide range of situations from occupational health to
safety applications. We not only provide and service gas, dust and noise
detection instrumentation for monitoring and alerting of potentially dangerous
environments, but additionally provide the monitoring service itself. ESP
realizes that monitoring for the presence of irritating chemicals and noise
improve worker and plant safety.
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Let ESP’s industrial hygiene partners serve your monitoring needs, whether they initial site characterization for HAZWOPER operations, employee complaints, confined space operations or for determining Personal protective equipment needs. |
