Facility managers and asset owners face complex challenges in the event of unforeseen environmental incidents and natural disasters. Rapid response requires a unique understanding of regulatory, technical, and logistical requirements. Our dedicated emergency response team, GHD FIRST, offers a comprehensive range of spill response services to meet these challenges.
GHD has over 25 years' experience in handling a wide-range of emergency spill response scenarios and has successfully executed projects throughout the United States and Canada. We help our clients respond to environmental incidents, identify and prepare for issues likely to arise in the event of a failure or natural disaster, assist in implementing planning measures in key operational areas to help preserve life, property, and business interests, and to minimize exposure to future liability.
Our experience with providing emergency management services for a range of sites includes industrial facilities, railroads operations and railyards, commercial vehicle accidents, pipelines, and numerous petroleum-petrochemical assets. Through this experience, we have developed proven response programs that provide rapid response while balancing the safety of the responders and local community.
Our emergency response services include:
- Air quality monitoring and dispersion modeling
- Chemical engineering
- Contamination assessment and remediation
- Data management
- Evacuation contingency planning
- Hazardous materials management
- Incident Command System (ICS) management
- Industrial hygiene sampling and OSHA compliance
- Litigation support
- Natural Resource Damage Assessments (NRDA)
- Potential worker and community exposure characterization
- Public health evaluation and regulatory agency interaction
- Regulatory interface/liaison
- Risk assessment and toxicology
- Risk liability management
- Shoreline Cleanup and Assessment Technique (SCAT)
- Short-term and long-term action plan development
- Spatial Sciences
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While relatively new to the CSX world, [GHD has] quickly become an integral part of our emergency response efforts, from routine TestNet calls to derailments and other incidents in railyards. GHD always shows their value through their innovative solutions and capability in the field.
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