Hostile Environment Services - Extreme-Environment Training, Entry, Intervention, Inspection, Maintenance and Repair

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

We provide Registered Training Organisation (RTO) training in a range of safety, emergency response and fire response courses. In addition to this, we provide a range of mercury management services and plant shutdown services.

Mercury management services

HES is proud to provide mercury management and HazMat services in its 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 materials
• Mercury management products
• Decontamination and production chemicals for various applications

We provide a single-source solution for the provision of all mercury-related services and products, having secured exclusive distributorship for a wide variety of high-quality products sought throughout the industry.

Mercury decontamination services for vessels

HES is unique in the methods and materials we employ to accomplish mercury decontamination of your vessels. With the continual requirement for positive proven results, we also provide decontamination and production chemicals for various applications.

This revolutionary new technology can even be custom-designed to the specific contaminant in a number of complex and dynamic environments. These unique chemicals include:

• HyDeX - plant decontamination (H2S, CO2, hydrocarbons, benzene, pyrophoric and iron sulphide)
• MeDeX - mercury decontamination (all species present)
• C-Dox - CO2 removal
• BioRinse - personnel mercury decontamination
• HydraScav - H2S scavenger
• XFlow - friction and drag-reducing agent

Mercury testing equipment and training

In terms of testing equipment, HES is able to provide everything required to ensure your vessels are completely decontaminated. We can also provide the training for staff equipment, including:

• Portable mercury vapour analysers
• Explosion-proof H2S area monitors
• Personal passive detector badges (all hazardous compounds)

Mercury management training

In addition to equipment training, HES is able to provide skilled and experienced trainers to work with you staff in learning about mercury management. We are able to offer high-level courses to staff in areas such as:

• Mercury awareness
• Mercury operations
• Use of mercury vapour analysers
• Safe working in confined spaces
• Breathing apparatus

Chemical health risk assessments for the offshore industry

As part of our service, HES is able to conduct complete chemical health risk assessments. A proactive approach controls the risks of mercury, mercuric compounds and elemental vapour, and secures the safety of personnel and protection of components and equipment. This is referred to as a mercury management plan (MMP) and includes:

• Legal compliance for mercury waste handling and disposal
• Chemical health risk assessment
• HazMat monitoring and supervision
• Biological / medical databases
• HazMat training and certification of 'At Risk' personnel
• Full procedure writing
• Mercury management audit (gap analysis) of existing systems
• Baseline and speciation studies for process and discharge streams using both field monitoring and laboratory apparatus

Highly trained offshore medics

HES can not only provide highly trained offshore medics but also supply, stock and maintain fully equipped offshore medical centres. Our team are all highly qualified and experienced in their fields of operation and able to provide a single source solution for all of our clients' on-site medical needs. 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
• Preventative health strategies
• Promotional health information packs

Offshore safety, emergency-response and fire-response training

Face-to-face training from highly experienced instructors allows course participants to ask questions and gain immediate feedback on their progress. We encourage a workshop environment where participants are encouraged to freely ask questions and make comments.

Our highly experienced instructors will ensure a proactive, easy-to-learn environment, which encourages positive interaction between our instructors and course participants. 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.

Offshore shutdown 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.

We are world leaders in the provision of intervention, inspection, maintenance and repair operations within hostile environments. Our processes are unique and employ the highest standard of both personnel and equipment in the country. Services include but are not limited to:

• Assistance with risk identification and assessment during planning and preparation stages
• 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)