Services
HSS has an experienced workforce that is intimately familiar with a vast array of occupational health and safety principles, so you always have the support you need and can depend on our experience and knowledge.
We generally charge by the hour for our consulting services. Some projects can occasionally be quoted at a fixed price. We often recommend to new clients that they consider placing HSS on retainer and pre-pay for a set monthly allocation of consulting/training hours.
Health & Safety Consulting and On-site Services
HSS can assist when your company's resources are taxed or it may be advantageous to have a third party offer objective advice on a project. Consulting services are private with all information being treated as confidential. We are experienced with the process of working through corporate attorneys to ensure attorney/client privileges are maintained. All reports are issued with recommendations and with the principal consultant's signature and professional stamp upon it.
Should your company be sued for an occupational injury, it may be advantageous to your organization's attorney to contract a professional that specializes in OSHA regulations to help them develop an appropriate course of action based upon an analysis of the incident and the facts associated with the event. Having an expert in occupational health and safety on your side may mean the difference between a claim being unjustly issued or not.
HSS has the ability to provide on-site facility auditing for OSHA compliance and best practices observations. Should your company have a turnaround or outage and need additional safety personnel on-site, HSS can assist with the staffing of these positions.
Plant outages and turnarounds are very stressful on even the largest company's resources. HSS specializes in assisting with planning for health and safety resources and planning of permit-required confined space entries during facility outages and turnarounds.
HSS can provide union staffed confined-space rescue teams & rescue equipment, fire watches, fresh air watches and PRCSE attendants to assist with manpower needs during outages and turnarounds. All of HSS's union service providers have received additional training that qualifies them for their assigned task.
HSS can provide basic industrial hygiene services for noise sampling, air quality sampling and ergonomics. HSS provides on-site H2S monitoring services for the oil & gas exploration industry. Should your location wish to have your air monitors maintained by a third party, HSS can provide monthly service/calibration of your facility's air monitors.
We can also provide inspections for mobile and overhead cranes, rigging equipment as well as inspections for entire industrial and marine facilities.
HSS consults and provides on-site services in the following industries: healthcare, nursing education, general industry - light manufacturing, general industry - heavy manufacturing, chemical, oil and gas exploration, commercial diving, construction, industrial emergency response, legal team assistants.
Fire & Explosion Investigation & Training Services
Health and Safety Sciences, LLC offers fire and explosion investigation services to a wide range of clients. HSS’s fire investigators hold accredited certifications through the National Associations of Fire Investigators and maintain their skills through NAFI continuing education requirements. All of HSS’s fire and explosion investigators are experienced municipal and industrial firefighters.
HSS fire investigators have experience with cold scene forensics and enjoy the challenges of determining origin and cause of fires/explosions that have occurred at locations that have been abandoned. HSS adheres to the National Fire Protection Association 921 Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations as a standard of conduct for its investigative processes.
Contact our group for your subject matter expert needs such as:
- Fire Investigations
- Explosion Investigations
- Fire Investigator Training
- Case Reviews
- Analysis of Opposing Reports and Testimony
- Forensic Laboratory Coordination
- Expert Testimony
Health & Safety Training
- OSHA 10 and 30 hour Training for Construction and General Industry
- Competent Person Excavation
- Competent Person Scaffold Daily Inspection and Erection
- Flammable Liquids and Gas (FLAG) Fire Fighting
- Respiratory Protection
- General Industry Safety Meetings - Assorted Topics
- HAZWOPER - 8, 24 and 40 hour Programs
- Competent Person Fall Protection
- American Heart Association CPR/First Aid - AED
- H2S (4 hour Awareness Course)
- Confined Space Attendant, Entrant & Supervisor
- Confined Space Rescuer
- Wind Turbine Rescue Team Member
- High-Angle Rescuer
- Hazmat Technician
- Industrial Fire Brigade Courses
- Incident Command
- United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America 644-Hour Inland Surface Supplied Air Commercial Diver/Tender Qualification Program
Health and Safety Sciences, LLC. offers the following courses accredited by the American Safety and Health Institute:
- CPR/AED for the Community and Workplace
- CPR/AED and First Aid Combo Course
- Emergency Medical Response (Workplace)
- Bloodborne Pathogens
- Emergency Oxygen Provider
- CPR Pro for the Professional Rescuer
- 40-Hour Emergency Medical First Responder
Health and Safety Sciences, LLC. offers the following courses accredited by the International Diving Educators Association:
- Basic Open Water Diver
- Advance Open Water Diver
- Rescue Diver
- Master Diver
- Professional Divemaster
- Basic and Advance Search & Recovery Diver
- Artifact Diver
- Basic Underwater Photography
- Basic Wreck Diver
- Boat Diving
- Current (Swift Water) Diving
- Deep Diver
- Divers Safety Assistant
- Equipment Specialist
- Full-Face Mask Diver
- High Altitude Diving
- Kelp Diving
- Limited Visibility Diver
- Marine Aquarium Specialist
- Night Diver
- Research Diver
- Rocks, Rips & Reefs
- Underwater Hunter
Hospital Safety and Security Services
- General duties of security personnel
- Overall safety and security planning and review
+ Provide a comprehensive review and recommendations to all safety and security plans
+ Meet Joint Commission review requirements - Report writing training
- Incident investigation training
- Fleet safety management
+ Defensive driving technique training - Situational awareness
- Personal safety training (Self-Defense)
+ This is much needed, especially for ER nurses due to higher injury rates - Workplace violence
- Specific active shooter program development and training
- Home visit safety program development and training
- Strikes and labor disputes
- Executive protection
- Emergency action planning and procedures
- Homeland security issues
- Physical property security assessment
- CPTED: Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
HSS now provides on-line training courses for Health, Safety and Environmental subjects. Visit our Virtual University now!
Virtual University is powered by 360training.
Customer support: 1-800-442-1149
Online OSHA outreach trainer Michael Millsap
HSS has dedicated carpenter crews that will come to your location and erect system scaffold for your turnaround or maintenance projects. HSS provides all material and labor for these services.
HSS can provide onsite health assessments, program design, resource assistance, implementation of health and wellness programs, and effectiveness evaluation services to small and large companies alike.
Health and Safety Sciences, LLC, (HHS) works with Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital (OLBH) to reduce work-related medical expenses. OLBH provides pre-employment drug screenings, employee physicals, wellness programs and medical management options using board certified safety professionals. OLBH works with HHS to provide on-site drug screenings and physicals by appointment to its industrial client base.
HSS offers emergency response team/security services to industrial and hospital clients. These services can be customized to the needs of the client and can include items such as quick attack fire units, confined space/high angle rescue units, and other unique resources to meet the hazards confronted by your organization. ERT/Security personnel are qualified in Fire/Rescue/EMS/Security methodologies allowing corporations to maximize their investment to cover many facility regulatory and safety needs.
HSS can provide union staffed confined-space rescue teams & rescue equipment, fire watches, fresh air watches and PRCSE attendants to assist with manpower needs during outages and turnarounds. All of HSS's union service providers have received additional training that qualifies them for their assigned task.
HSS offers marine security diving services and underwater investigation services to industrial and government clients. HSS divers hold Public Safety Diving certifications through the Public Divers Association and Water Rescue, Inc. and hold qualifications in underwater investigations.
HSS will inspect your vessels, ports, harbors, bridges, and other marine structures to ensure they have not been damaged or tampered with utilizing surface-supplied apparatus and SCUBA apparatus. The health and safety of your employees and visitors to marine facilities is of great importance to you and your organization.
HSS has the ability to investigate underwater failures of industrial systems and workplace fatalities involving waterborne environments. It is important to have qualified and experienced providers of underwater accident and failure investigations to ensure the facts are properly uncovered and that similar events do not occur in the future.
Health and Safety Sciences, LLC is an approved Public Safety Diving Association (PSDA) and Water Rescue, Inc. training agency for Public Safety Diver Level I Courses. PSDA & Water Rescue, Inc. has been training Public Safety Officers since 1972 and have developed a world renowned name for comprehensive public safety diver programs.
HSS’s lead public safety diving instructor is JP Pennington. Jon is a designated Chief Fire Officer through The Center for Public Safety Excellence and is a Member Grade of the Institution of Fire Engineers.
Feel free to contact HSS about your fire, police, security and rescue squad’s diving certification needs. Programs can be delivered at our training facility or arrangements can be made to bring the training program to your location.
HSS has partnered with Pro Fire Extinguishment to provide our clients with the best and most comprehensive fire prevention, protection and safety training in the area. Learn more about Pro Fire Extinguishment by contacting Aaron Jarrell at (502) 261-7070 or point your browser to www.profireextinguishment.com.
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