When attempting to select an emergency response company and supporting emergency services, companies are often faced with the challenge of finding a quality emergency response provider among all of the various firms offering such services.
McCulley, Eastham & Associates has found that the cheapest contractor is not always the best risk management choice for your corporation. Emergency response is a very technical field and requires highly skilled and qualified contractors to be solicited.
Responding to incidents in the steel, oil, chemical, and other industries is an extremely dangerous occupation. The results of a poorly executed emergency response can cripple an organization.
McCulley, Eastham & Associates, Inc. recommends that every organization, individual facility, and plant manager seeking to implement a full-time contract emergency program, contract emergency response services for outages and turnarounds, or an emergency response training contractor ask every potential contractor the following eight (8) questions:
- Does the contractor have the experience in the field of need (have they done it before)?
- Does the contractor’s personnel have the required skills, knowledge and abilities and are they experienced?
- Can the contractor maintain a standing force of qualified emergency response employees to service your needs?
- Does the contractor have a previous work history in the emergency response field?
- Is the contractor properly equipped to do the emergency and safety jobs you need?
- If your job runs over the contracted time do they have the resources to staff it until your company is out of harms way?
- Can the contractor expand as your plant’s needs expand?
- Does the contractor have the proper insurance needed to perform the emergency response work in your plant?
