Consulting and TrainingComplying with regulations, maintaining a skilled work force, working to prevent environmental disasters—a lot goes into running a successful business. The ES&H Consulting and Training Group can help you get it right. Our consultants draw upon decades of education and experience in the private and public sectors, providing regulatory assistance and total solutions to your environmental needs.

Emergency/Spill Management Team

When an environmental emergency occurs, you need a team that can help you respond effectively. Our team will be there immediately to assess the environmental impact, manage the cleanup process, and handle the necessary regulations triggered by the incident. Our team is organized according to the National Inter-Agency Incident Command System and can manage any incident in the Unified Command System. We work with you from start to finish:

• Dealing with relevant agencies and the media
• Performing health and safety assessments
• Creating Incident Action Plans (IAPs)
• Providing logistical support and security
• Staging equipment and personnel, managing resources, and more

PREP Drills and Exercises

We can evaluate, facilitate, and even direct your required National Preparedness for Response Exercise Planning (PREP) drills and exercises, which include the following:

• Spill Management Team (SMT) Tabletop Exercises
• On Board Emergency Procedures Exercises
• Equipment Deployment Exercises
• Qualified Individual (Q.I.) Notification Exercises

We offer special PREP compliance packages to maintain your compliance needs. We preserve all certification records on our server with appropriate hard file backups.

Response Planning

We can help you stay on top of the regulations that affect your business, drafting plans that are fully compliant with the latest regulations. We will conduct an annual review of your response manuals, updating all information, including regulatory notifications and employee information.

• Facility Response Plan (FRP)
• Oil Spill Response Plan—Regional and Subregional (OSRP)
• Operations Manual
• Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasures Plan (SPCC)
• Tank and Non-Tank Vessel Response Plan (VRP/NTVRP)
• Shipboard Oil Pollution Emergency Plan (SOPEP)
• Shipboard Marine Pollution Emergency Plan (SMPEP)
• Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWP3)
• Safety and Environmental Management Plan (SEMP)
• Security Plan
• Department of Transportation (DOT) Pipeline Manual

DOT Pipeline Services

We assist pipeline operating companies in developing, implementing, and documenting routine maintenance schedules. Our consultants are fully qualified under the operator/contractor qualification program listed in 40 CFR 195. Tasks include:

• Development of operations & maintenance procedures
• Pipeline inspection and greasing of key valves
• Inspection of removed components
• Observation and documentation of the testing of pressure limiting devices
• Inspection of right of ways
• Management of your company's One Call program
• General vegetation control

Training

We offer training at our state-of-the-art training facilities in Houma, Louisiana and Houston, Texas, as well as on site at your company. Our full-time instructors teach from hands-on experience, engaging participants with activities that appeal to their unique learning style and build on prior experience. This objective-driven, application-focused approach enhances both the trainee and your company. Courses include:

• HAZWOPER 40-hour Technician/General Site Worker
• HAZWOPER 24-hour Technician
• HAZWOPER Refresher
• HAZWOPER 8-hour Operations
• HAZWOPER 4-hour Awareness
• MMS Spill Management Team Qualified Individual (Q.I.)
• Incident Command System (ICS)
• DOT HAZMAT Employee
• Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) Awareness

Customized courses are also available. We are approved by the Louisiana Incumbent Worker Program to provide state-funded training to qualified companies.

Environmental Auditing

We can perform a visual assessment of all of your facilities to ensure that everything is operating within the standards and guidelines of regulatory agencies like EPA, OSHA, USCG, and DEQ. Our auditors look for problem areas so you can address them before they become critical.

Environmental Permitting

We offer environmental monitoring, sampling, and permit preparation services including National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits dealing with storm water, sanitary waste, and wash water outfalls. We can also help generate and submit the following important filings associated with federal and state industrial permits and MMS-regulated drilling activity:

• Discharge Monitoring Reports
• Tier II Reports
• MMS Development Operations Coordination Documents (DOCDs)
• MMS Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU)/Exploratory Well Worst Case Discharge Scenarios

Environmental Surveying

We can perform a Phase I environmental site assessment on any property or facility to determine if areas of potential concern or liability exist. A Phase II assessment involves sampling potentially contaminated areas and we can conduct NORM surveys, as needed. We can also perform a Phase III site remediation to restore the property to its background conditions under the guidelines of the Louisiana RECAP Program.