Total Safety Acquires Z-Safety Services, Increasing Offerings and Footprint in Europe
Posted by admin in Industrial Safety Service Centers, Industrial Safety Services & Equipment on December 22, 2011
December 21, 2011 – Total Safety, the leading global provider of integrated industrial safety services and compliance solutions, today announced that it has acquired Z-Safety Services, the European leader in mission-critical safety services and equipment to the downstream energy and petrochemical markets based in Dilsen, Belgium. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Both Total Safety and Z-Safety Services have deep roots in the industry and are well known for providing best-in-class air, gas, fire and safety management services to clients. With over a decade of commitment to customer service, Z-Safety Services has established itself as a leader in providing critical safety services to the chemical, petrochemical, industrial and power markets in the Benelux region through their qualified pool of technicians, equipment fleet and distribution partners.
With this combination, Total Safety dramatically expands its European footprint and its ability to serve the safety needs of its global client partners. It also enables Total Safety to extend its reach to Z-Safety Services’ world-class customer base and further enhance service offerings to these customers through the introduction of additional safety services, such as industrial hygiene, fire safety, emergency medical treatment/paramedics and communications services.
“We are excited to partner with the innovative and talented team at Z-Safety Services,” said David E. Fanta, chief executive officer of Total Safety. “The leadership team has a commitment to safety and excellence that mirrors our own, and their family of over 500 qualified personnel is a great complement to our international family. We are looking forward to extending our additional capabilities in industrial hygiene, communications and medical services to their current customers, many of which we serve elsewhere. We are proud to have an expanded global presence through this partnership with the premier safety services provider in continental Europe.”
“Our customers have asked us to increase our service offerings in Europe for sometime. The Z-Safety Services combination enables us to enhance our offerings in the market in a meaningful and expedited way. We believe the added mix of expertise and geographic reach will provide our customers even more value and satisfaction, and we believe looking forward to attracting new customer with our breadth of quality safety services and equipment,” noted Paul Tyree, chief operating officer of Total Safety.
Matty Zadnikar, president of Z-Safety Services, noted, “We are enthusiastic to bring our clients additional capabilities now that we are part of the Total Safety family. We know this transaction will be advantageous for our clients and our dedicated employees.” Mr. Zadnikar, who will invest and serve on the board of the merged European entity, will continue to manage the business with his team across Europe and maintain the high standards of customer service and innovation that has made Z-Safety Services the leader in their market today.
About Total Safety
Houston, Texas, based Total Safety, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company, is the world’s leading outsourced provider of integrated industrial safety services and compliance solutions and the products necessary to support them. As the world’s leading provider of industrial safety solutions, Total Safety provides services and products to support on-site safety, turnaround safety, gas detection, respiratory protection, rescue, safety training, fire protection, safety compliance and inspection, industrial hygiene, on-site emergency medical treatment/paramedics, communications, custom-engineered systems design and materials management. It operates from more than 133 location in 18 countries to ensure the safe Wellbeing of Workers Worldwide (W3). For more information about Total Safety, please visit Total Safety.com.
About Z-Safety Services
Z-Safety Services provides safety solutions, turnaround safety, gas detection, respiratory protection, materials management and on-site support to customers in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, France and the United Kingdom from 28 locations.
Contact:
Total Safety
713-353-7100
Dennis Turnipseed, Chief Financial Officer
Stenning Schueppert, Vice President – Strategy & Corporate Development
Plant Outage Safety: Make a List and Check it Twice!
Posted by admin in Health and Safety Services, Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Health and Safety, Plant Outages on December 16, 2011
By Mandy Sunderland, Senior Industrial Hygienist
It is recognized that well-planned and executed outages are far less expensive and much safer than taking a reactive approach and responding to unplanned failures as they occur.
Tremendous effort typically goes into planning and coordinating the various aspects of a major outage to maximize repairs and preventive maintenance that can only be conducted in “shut down” mode. It is critical that all issues, like industrial hygiene, rescue and safety personnel, are fully addressed in the early phases of outage planning. Playing catch-up in these areas can have a negative impact on worker safety, project budget and schedule.
Industrial Hygiene Management
Assessing risks of chemical and physical exposure for the myriad activities involved in major industrial outages can be daunting for even the most seasoned Industrial Hygiene professional. But a comprehensive IH assessment is an essential part of outage management to assure IH resources are allocated properly, controls are provided and exposures are monitored. Creating a comprehensive list of activities and potential exposures will protect workers, improve safety and reduce costs during the outage process.
From the assessment, the information should then be compiled and prioritized for controls and monitoring. Priorities should be established based on:
- Toxicity and immediate risk to workers
- Regulatory requirements
- Understanding of the work activity
(are exposures related to the activity well understood and documented, or is
this a new or unique potential exposure that is not well understood?)
Emergency and Rescue
Having highly skilled safety personnel on standby to protect workers in emergency situations reduces liability and increases productivity by being able to respond quickly and appropriately. Rescue personnel should provide:
- Self-rescue and rescue team training
- High angle, hull entry and confined space rescues
- Safety supervision and confined space assessment
- Space or site rescue pre-planning and pre-entry equipment staging
- Proper entry permit documentation
- The writing of hull entry procedures and guidelines
- Continuous atmospheric monitoring and ambient air testing
Specialized Industrial Safety Personnel
Industrial Safety Technicians and Safety Attendants (holewatch/firewatch/bottlewatch) increase safety and efficiency and reduce costs. By having Specialized Safety Personnel on an
outage provide excellent benefits, like:
- More competitive billing rates
- Craftsmen are not tied up performing attendant duties
- Reducing the number of multiple contractor employees, thus reducing the total man-hour costs of the project
- Immediately being able to provide time tickets and head count reports, as well as up-to-the-minute cost reporting
Due to the high cost and loss of production associated with outages, it is essential these are executed as efficiently and safely as possible. Proper management of safety issues during outages can help your company increase profitability and decrease liability during crucial outage and shutdown periods. Outages are hectic, chaotic and stressful by nature. By making your safety list (and checking it twice), you can help ensure the success of your outage!
Emergency Response Industrial Hygiene Monitoring
Posted by admin in Health and Safety Services, Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Health and Safety, Safety Training & Consulting Services on November 11, 2011
By Lisa Browning, Training Coordinator
The time is now! Plan for how your facility will conduct emergency response industrial hygiene (IH) monitoring. What should you be looking for in a provider of this service? Because of the unique challenges surrounding emergency response IH monitoring, choose a provider that is able to develop written protocols/procedures, to deploy teams and equipment quickly, to provide experienced/knowledgeable personnel, quality support staff, and can adapt to ever changing conditions. Some of the more challenging issues arising specific to IH monitoring include but are not limited to mobility, flexibility, proper equipment, documentation, reporting, and site specific training.
Developing written protocols/procedures has to occur first. The protocols set the applicable exposure levels, alarm levels and actions including deployment of respiratory protection, establishment of safe zones, evacuation, shelter-in-place or other personal protective measures. Reporting mechanisms, format and timing of data reports should also be included in the protocol. It is important to remember that reports are often shared not only with the client but others as well including federal, state and local authorities. Therefore, a data management support team must be available 24/7 to provide quality assurance and create a database from which a variety of reports can be prepared quickly. Certified industrial hygienists should be utilized to write the IH sampling protocol and be available to lead project management. Summary reports that pull all of the information together at the end of the event should be prepared and retained just as any other industrial hygiene medical record.
Next comes deployment which includes both necessary equipment and a team of personnel to operate the equipment. Your provider has to have the equipment in inventory or else have connections already in place to get it. Equipment ranges from simple personal monitoring pumps to the more technologically advanced real time wireless monitoring systems with built in GPS and data management software. All of which must be rugged, portable, intrinsically safe and able to collect large quantities of data for the specific contaminant(s) of concern.
One thing often overlooked is the need for an IH Mobile Command Center. It must communicate with both the site’s incident command center and also the outside world. A high speed Internet connection is needed for monitoring data management software. A standalone IH Mobile Command Center will not interfere with the incident command center communication requirements but seamlessly integrate on site.
Training is a valuable component. Your provider should have the ability to train their own responding team and also be available to train other site workers. Monitoring personnel should have completed HAZWOPER, Incident Command, NIMS, respiratory protection and other standard courses. However, prior to deployment, training should occur on the incident IH monitoring protocol, site specific hazards, client’s procedures, reporting requirements, and equipment use.
Support away from the response is required. The provider needs to have a strong support staff provide additional resources to handle issues that may arise during the sampling. Plan now and choose your emergency response IH monitoring provider with these criteria in mind to ensure that your facility is fully prepared for any emergency response.
Total Safety Opens New Location in Australia
Posted by admin in Industrial Safety Service Centers on November 10, 2011
Total Safety is proud to announce the opening of our Sale, Victoria, location, managed by Marty Tesselaar. This new office is yet another concrete illustration of our commitment to meet our customers’ demands for local service and on-site expertise. As with all Total Safety locations worldwide, the office will leverage Total Safety’s vast network of best-in-class safety processes and the industry’s deepest network of safety professionals.
Office location information:
Sale, Victoria
2 Invictus Court
Sale, Victoria 3850
Phone: 61 351 444131
Fax: 61 351 444132
District Manager: Marty Tesselaar
Total Safety is the world’s leading provider of integrated safety strategies and the products necessary to support them. With more than 100 offices worldwide from Australia to the Americas, we stand committed “to ensure the safe Wellbeing of Workers Worldwide (W3).”
To learn more about Total Safety and the industrial safety services & equipment that they can provide to your company, call 888.44.TOTAL.
H2WR Reaches Motorola Service Provider Milestone
Posted by admin in Communications Solutions on September 27, 2011
H2WR, a Total Safety Company, reached a major milestone – 20 years as a Motorola Service Center. H2WR is one of Motorola’s Premier Service Providers, which is the highest level of service provider Motorola has.
Motorol Solutions serves as a leader in communications areas, including public safety communications from infrastructure to applications and devices, such as radios, as well as task-specific mobile computing devices for enterprises. They produce advanced data capture devices, such as barcode scanners and RFID (radio-frequency identification) products for business. They make professional and commercial two-way radios for a variety of markets and also bring unlicensed wireless broadband capabilities and wireless local area networks – or WLAN – to enterprise.
Warburg Pincus to Acquire Total Safety
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on September 7, 2011
Total Safety, the premier global outsourced provider of integrated safety and compliance solutions to clients operating in hazardous environments, today announced that Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm, has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Total Safety from DLJ Merchant Banking Partners. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed and it is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2011.
About Total Safety
Total Safety, based in Houston, Texas, is the world’s leading global outsourced provider of integrated safety and compliance solutions and the products necessary to support them. As the world’s leading provider of safety solutions, Total Safety provides services and products to support: on-site safety, turnaround safety, gas detection, respiratory protection, rescue, safety training, fire protection, safety compliance and inspection, industrial hygiene, onsite emergency medical treatment/paramedics, communications systems, and engineered system design. It operates from more than 105 locations in 13 countries to ensure the safe Wellbeing of Workers Worldwide (W3). For more information about Total Safety, please visit www.totalsafety.com.
About Warburg Pincus
Warburg Pincus is a leading global private equity firm. The firm has more than $30 billion in assets under management. Its active portfolio of more than 125 companies is highly diversified by stage, sector and geography. Warburg Pincus is a growth investor and an experienced partner to management teams seeking to build durable companies with sustainable value. Founded in 1966, Warburg Pincus has raised 13 private equity funds which have invested more than $35 billion in over 650 companies in more than 30 countries.
Since inception, the firm has invested approximately $7.5 billion in consumer, industrial and services (CIS) companies including past and current investments in Aramark, Polypore, Safetykleen, Scotsman Industries, Survitec Group, TransDigm Group Inc. and Transpacific Industries.
The firm is headquartered in New York with offices in Amsterdam, Beijing, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Mumbai, San Francisco, Sao Paulo and Shanghai. For more information, please visit www.warburgpincus.com.
About DLJ Merchant Banking Partners
DLJ Merchant Banking Partners (DLJMB) is a leading private equity investor that has a 24-year record of investing in growth capital opportunities, leveraged buyouts and related transactions across a broad range of industries. DLJMB, with offices in New York, London and Los Angeles, is part of Credit Suisse’s Asset Management business. In its Asset Management business, Credit Suisse offers products across a broad spectrum of investment classes, including alternative investments such as private equity, hedge funds, real estate and credit, as well as multi-asset class solutions, which include equities and fixed income products. Credit Suisse’s Asset Management business manages portfolios, mutual funds and other investment vehicles for a broad spectrum of clients ranging from governments, institutions and corporations to private individuals.
H2WR, A Total Safety Company, Has Relocated
Posted by admin in Communications Solutions, Industrial Safety Service Centers, Industrial Safety Services & Equipment on August 29, 2011
H2WR, A Total Safety Company (formerly Houston 2-Way Radio) is now at a new sales, rental and service office location:
| 4100 N. Sam Houston Parkway W., Suite 290 Houston, TX 77086 |
Business: 713.681.2525
Fax: 713.681.5940
H2WR offers two-way radio sales, rental and repair, as well as many other communications solutions and services. H2WR offers solutions for rugged computing, handheld scanning and data capture devices, area-wide private digital radio service, plant and municipal emergency notification systems, communications system design and consultation, and much more.
As always, look to our experts at H2WR for exceptional service, proven techniques and superior equipment that meet your needs.
ICU, a Total Safety Company, Has Relocated
Posted by admin in Industrial Hygiene, Industrial Safety Service Centers, Occupational Health and Safety on August 22, 2011
ICU, A Total Safety Company will now offer environmental, health and safety services from a new location:
| 4100 N. Sam Houston Parkway W., Suite 290 Houston, TX 77086 |
Business: 281.363.9939
Fax: 281.363.4744
ICU’s professional experience and expertise provides customers with the resources necessary to complete EHS projects successfully, within budget and on time, while reducing risk and liability. Continue to look to our experts for Occupational Health Services, Safety Services, Technical Training Services, Environmental Services and more, just from a new, centralized location.
Total Safety Sulphur, Louisiana Office Awarded OSHA’s VPP Star Status
Posted by admin in Industrial Safety Service Centers on August 4, 2011
Not only does Total Safety promote a culture of safety to their clients, we strive for safety excellence within our own company. As a result, Total Safety is proud to announce that our Sulphur location has received OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) Star status. Total Safety would not have been able to achieve this level of excellence without the commitment of our employees and the leadership of management.
We would like to recognize the outstanding efforts of our employees who have achieved exemplary occupational safety and health in accordance with OSHA’s VPP and within our own mission to ensure the safe Wellbeing of Workers Worldwide (W3).
About OSHA Voluntary Protection Program (VPP)
The VPP recognizes employers and workers in the private industry and federal agencies who have implemented effective safety and health management systems and maintain injury and illness rates below national Bureau of Labor Statistics averages for their respective industries. In VPP, management, labor and OSHA work cooperatively and proactively to prevent fatalities, injuries and illnesses through a system focused on:
- Hazard prevention and control
- Worksite analysis
- Training
- Management commitment and worker involvement
To participate, employers must submit an application to OSHA and undergo a rigorous onsite evaluation by a team of safety and health professionals. Union support is required for applicants represented by a bargaining unit. VPP participants are re-evaluated every three to five years to remain in the programs. VPP participants are exempt from OSHA programmed inspections while they maintain their VPP status.
To learn more about OSHA’s VPP, please visit their website at:
Total Safety Acquires Oilfield Safety and Western Fire
Posted by admin in Fire Protection Service Solutions on August 3, 2011
Total Safety, the leading global provider of integrated safety services and compliance solutions, announced today it has acquired Oilfield Safety, Inc. (“OSI”) based in Williston, North Dakota and Western Fire & Safety, Inc. (“Western”) based in Dickinson, North Dakota. With over twenty years of customer service each, the companies will add to Total Safety’s Williston Basin presence through additional air, gas, and fire services. OSI provides critical safety services to the upstream energy markets including air, gas, and fire services to complement their equipment rental fleet. Western complements the portfolio with a focus on fire services (fixed and portable systems) and personal protective equipment to both the up- and midstream energy markets and various fire departments across North Dakota.
“We are excited to partner with the energetic and talented team at OSI and Western,” said David E. Fanta, Chief Executive Officer of Total Safety. “The leadership teams have a commitment to safety and excellence that mirrors our own. We are looking forward to extending our additional capabilities to their current customers, some of which we’ve been proud to serve elsewhere but simply didn’t have the strong local presence to meet their needs until now. OSI’s office in Williston will provide an immediate footprint to expand our services further north from our geographic base while Western’s capabilities complement our current Dickinson office very well.”
Randy Jilek, President and CEO of Western and OSI, noted, “we are very eager to provide our clients with additional services now that we are part of the Total Safety family. We know this combination will be advantageous for our clients and our loyal employees.” Randy Jilek will continue to manage the business in Dickinson while Ben Weltikol will continue his leadership in Williston; both will dedicate themselves to their continued high standard of customer service.
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