Hazmat Clean-Up Hinges on Interaction
John Walters has seen it all when it comes to the worst accidents involving hazardous materials, including his share of rail and truck spills.
The emergency response manager at the Boots & Coots Special Services’ office in LaPorte, Texas, has many tales and has garnered a lot of knowledge about the best approach to containing and cleaning up chemicals or waste spills. A lot of that learning he passes on to others, especially those in the transportation industry, where spills and leaks are ever-present.
The special services unit, formerly Code3, has been around since 1993 and is now part of the Boots & Coots Group based in Houston. The subsidiary has several offerings that run from hazmat responses, including oil spills and industrial fires, to risk and crisis management.
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| Members of a response team from Boots & Coots Special Services put down material to soak up a tanker spill. |
“We not only respond to incidents, providing mitigation and clean-up, but we also offer private-sector training and refresher training in hazardous materials and confined space training,” Walters says about the services his employer offers to transportation and rail companies around the world.
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