Emergency Rescue Services
Once an oil and gas site is fully operational, fire suppression operations are delegated to fire and safety crews on-site and on standby in case of an incident. However, when the oil and gas site is still under construction, the site still requires safety and fire fighting personnel on standby.
In addition to the obvious responsibility of responding to health and worker safety, emergency response services teams also oversee a large range of activities pertaining to safety planning, worker safety training, and coordination with local and provincial emergency response teams.
When looking to hire a vendor for your emergency response or high angle rescue needs, it’s important to perform due diligence to ensure that both the vendor and the individuals on their team have the experience and capabilities to fulfill their responsibilities to your company’s workers.
With oil prices at a multi-year low, oil companies are re-evaluating their investment in projects and cutting expenses across the entire company as they prepare to face a deteriorated outlook. In addition to improved safety, here are three ways that an external vendor can reduce your emergency response costs.
Oil and gas workers are highly valuable and skilled workers. In addition to certain situations requiring emergency response teams on standby, by law, it’s also in a company’s interest to protect their workers to ensure maximum productivity. Serious injuries can result in employees taking upwards of 50 days of paid leave or in the worst case, not able to return to work at all.
In today’s market with soft oil and commodity prices affecting the short-term viability of new and existing projects, outsourcing can be attractive because as it allows you to quickly and easily change course to minimize cost, maximize cash flow and mitigate risk.