Hostile Environment Services - Hostile-Environment Emergency-Response and Safety Training

Hostile Environment Services (HES) is an Australian-based company specialising in extreme-environment entry, intervention, inspection, maintenance and repair. We deliver the highest-standard emergency services and security personnel, specialist response equipment, and emergency vehicle fleet hire.

We are also Registered Training Organisation (RTO)-trained in a range of safety, emergency response and fire response courses. In addition, we provide a selection of mercury management services and plant shut-down services.

Hostile environment intervention, inspection, maintenance and repair operations

HES is a world leader in the provision of intervention, inspection, maintenance and repair operations within hostile environments. We are able to provide services that are unique within the industry. Throughout these projects we are able to manage the service from end-to-end, ensuring maximum efficiency and saving your company time and resources.

Safety and production are paramount for every client. This means getting a safe and prompt resolution and getting it done with little or no production down time. With years of experience and specialised equipment, our operations team can safely carry out work and inspections in many environments that would otherwise require a partial or complete production shutdown.

Highly trained industrial medics and medical centres

HES can not only provide highly trained medics but we can also supply, stock and maintain fully equipped medical centres. Our services include but are by no means limited to the provision of:

• Procedures, protocols, guidelines and documentation
• Scheduled drugs licence and all management
• Experienced and qualified medics
• Fully equipped medical centres
• Fully equipped ambulances
• Preventative health strategies
• Promotional health information packs

As part of our head office's support of all site-based operations, we have a strong management team that is in regular contact with our personnel and is frequently on-site for management visits and audits.

Mine emergency services offices

Emergency service officers from HES are an outstanding addition to any emergency response or safety department. We are often called upon to:

• Cover leave requirements
• Provide extra support during shutdowns
• Provide cover during commissioning of plants
• Provide site-wide cover as a standalone service reporting directly to site management

Mine security personnel

HES can provide highly trained and experienced security officers as well as security vehicles for site patrols. Our security team will work closely with the site's management to ensure that we can maintain the desired level of asset protection and site personnel management whilst building a strong rapport with all personnel on site. We are also able to provide security services such as wet mess coverage.

Emergency-response vehicle hire

Adding to our mobile medical and emergency response workforce is our large fleet of emergency vehicles. HES boasts the largest private rescue ambulance fleet in Australia, meaning that we are able to rent a large range of emergency vehicles to clients in all areas with a quick turnaround. All of our ambulances and emergency response vehicles come fully equipped and ready for use, including equipment such as:

• International standard 'Hostile Hi-Vis' markings
• Comprehensive communications systems
• Full emergency and operational lighting systems

We are proud of the configuration, design, construction and maintenance of our high-specification fleet, which is accepted by all of the major resource companies in Australia.

Mine safety, emergency-response and fire-response training

For mining organisations to be successful, their employees require up-to-date emergency response and safety training from a reliable and experienced RTO.

We are able to bring a full training environment to your site through our mobile training modules. The mobile training modules are multi-configurable, allowing for realistic training in areas such as working in confined spaces, gas testing, confined space rescue, heights rescue and training for use of breathing apparatus.

We offer many safety and emergency courses, including:

• Safe working in confined spaces
• Operate breathing apparatus open circuit
• Hazmat response
• Fire fighting (specialising in gas fires)
• First aid
• Basic safety in the workplace
• Team building

Your organisation may require reliable up-to-date advice on fire and safety training, procedures and equipment. HES can visit your workplace to determine your unique training and equipment requirements.

Mining shutdown personnel and services

HES provides a single source for the provision of emergency response and safety equipment together with qualified personnel during shutdowns. We are unique in that we are able to manage the entire shutdown process from providing assessments, security staff and medical staff all the way through to equipment and testing. Services include but are not limited to:

• Assistance with risk identification and assessment during planning and preparation stage
• Provision of certified emergency response rental equipment
• Provision of short-term fully qualified emergency service officers, medics and nurses
• Preparation of emergency response and rescue plans, including confined space
• Provision for short-term hire of additional safety equipment
• Provision for fully equipped and staffed maintenance, cleaning and decontamination facilities (emergency response and safety equipment)
• Provision of on-site high-pressure (BA) air-filling facility
• Air-quality testing of breathing air (high and low pressure) in accordance with legislation and AS/NZS1715
• Provision for respiratory fit testing (equipment and qualified facilitator) as outlined in legislation and AS/NZS1715
• Assistance with site inductions by fully qualified trainers
• Specialised safety training (nationally accredited)

Mercury management services

HES is proud to add mercury management and HazMat services to our portfolio. We are the only company in Australia that is capable of offering a complete solution to your mercury management requirements.

Using our own unique processes and world-leading chemicals, we are able to effectively plan and project manage the following scopes of supply with the absolute minimum downtime and disruption:

• Hazardous material management
• Hazardous shutdown / turnaround supervision
• Mercury decontamination
• Medical monitoring
• HazMat training and certification
• Procedure writing for handling hazardous material
• Mercury management products
• Decontamination and production chemicals for various applications