INDUSTRIAL SERVICES
Lab Packing. Decontamination. Remediation. Emergency Response.
AET’s Lab Pack program is designed to provide “turn-key” management of laboratory-sized, small chemical containers. All AET field chemists work under the guidance of certified hazardous materials managers (CHMMs). We help clients produce a chemical inventory or characterize and segregate a prepared inventory.
AET field chemists segregate small-container waste based on DOT hazard class and disposal facility requirements. We pack materials in UN-rated containers, transport and dispose of. AET maintains several DOT Party Exemptions, which provide relief on some packaging restrictions, allowing us to pack more effectively, and reducing the cost to clients.
The benefit of using AET is that we are nimble and agile in our responses to your questions and requests for information. We help clients understand why the regulations require certain separations or segregations of chemicals. Each lab pack project has its own qualities, but AET’s field chemists, having completed these projects for over 20 years, have pretty much-seen everything. You will be pleased by how positively the lab pack progresses!
One of the requirements for federal and commercial agencies when they vacate space is to decontaminate and clean all leased areas where chemicals or hazardous materials had been used or stored before returning the facility to the owner.
AET has performed dozens of these facility and laboratory decontamination projects from Florida to California for agencies such as the USGS and the FDA and also for commercial manufacturing corporations. We devise work plans based on client scope of work and historical site use. Tasks may include cleaning and decontaminating electrical and HVAC systems; removal and repurpose of laboratory benches, casements, equipment and fume hoods; disposal of unwanted chemistry from corrosive and flammable chemical rooms storage cabinets; dismantle tanks and associated plumbing from process areas; and removal of contaminated or stained room surfaces. Verification and confirmation sampling completes the process of successful clean-up.
AET designs these projects in accordance with the American Industrial Hygiene Association. Protocols include work plans, sampling and analysis plans, health and safety plans, quality control plans, and waste management plans.
AET’s approach to remediation is founded on assigning the proper resources for the effective clean-up of environmentally compromised sites. Project plans are developed based on historical site use and client requirements. Work elements vary but include construction support, excavation, treatment (in-situ and off-site), containment, decontamination and demolition.
Clandestine methamphetamine contaminated properties is special type of remediation challenge. When the safety and hygiene of a property is been compromised from the production of illicit drug manufacturing, AET assists residential and commercial property owners reestablish the fitness of the property for occupancy or reuse.
Sam Woods, Compliance Coordinator, DCP Midstream