SAFETY: Specific to UST Work

Committed to the Facility owners/operators

TesTank Inc. is committed to safely performing our services while on your facility. We have developed our Injury and Illness Prevention Program (IIPP) with our customers’ need for onsite safety in mind and are happy to share this Safety Plan on request.

Committed to our Employees

TesTank Inc. is committed to providing a safe work environment for our employees under diverse safety challenges. Our work environment is not static but constantly shifting during any day’s workload. During the day, our crews may move from an aircraft refueling site to a hospital emergency generator fuel storage system, a QuikTrip type C-Store under construction, or a middle-of-nowhere Oil Field Card Lock Refueling facility.

Committed to UST Permit Required Confined Space Entry Continuity

Just in the past few years, the Petroleum Equipment Institute, Major Equipment Manufacturers, and other stakeholders have begun to emphasize safety factors associated with the PRCS spaces at Gasoline Dispensing Facilities. You can now observe the increasing awareness tactics on our industry’s websites, in online training modules, and in written installation and maintenance documents.

As a trusted and invited member of our tank-owning-customers regulatory compliance team, TesTank Inc. has maintained trust by staying abreast of more obscure regulations that pertain to our industry but are not as readily visible if only reviewed in the Federal or State UST rules. We discipline ourselves to investigate codes that seem to be less discussed in our testing industry, such as OSHA and Fire Safety Codes, etc. This expanded research enables us to execute our customer directives and perform tasks at their facilities in accordance with safety laws. We invest in education for our personnel on safety issues. We provide state-of-the-art equipment dedicated to their safety. TesTank understands and is at the forefront of our industry in providing for the specialized Safety associated with PRCS entry spaces owned by our customers (STP Secondary Containment Sumps).

Since June 2014, TesTank Inc. has required our testing personnel to receive training pertinent to OSHA regulations found in 29 CFR 1910.146 Permit-Required Confined Space Entry.

Early in their training cycle, all newly employed testing trainees are enrolled in the OSHA #2264 course at the OSHA Institute Education Center on the University of Texas Arlington campus. They receive 22 hours of hands-on and classroom instruction with certification for PRCS entry meeting OSHA, ANSI, and EM 385 -1-1 requirements. Everyone attends this fixed plan course. We have witnessed that this brings continuity to our PRCS entry program.

This continuity of training means the newest trainee becomes a “stakeholder” in his own safety and that they are positioned to bring intelligent input to the decision processes. When tasks

requiring ENTRY into one of these types of spaces is determined at the facility, our personnel teams diligently adhere to the requisite planning of entry. Team size stipulations, training requirements with certifications, permit procedures and special safety equipment needs (4-gas monitors, rescue tripods, fresh air blowers) are considered. The team must be in unanimous agreement with all the preparations for entry, the actual entry, and tasks procedures to be accomplished while in these PRCS. Adhering to the permit, which by regulation is created while on site, any member of the team is authorized to call for a total STOP and safe shut down of the ENTRY.

We have been gathering field data into our database since 2014 and are willing and able to share this information with our customers/tank owners. We don’t just say a space meets requirements requisite to needing to comply with PRCS entry protocols; we provide verifiable data. Our records indicate that our deepest PRCS entry has been 126”.