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“Be proactive in your preparedness plan to ensure employee safety and to protect revenue-generating activities,” advises Vic DeMasi, Chief Operating Officer, Deployed Resources. “Through innovative logistical approaches, employee safety and facility profitability can both be enhanced,” he adds.

Deployed Resources is a solution provider at the marcus evans Petrochemical & Refining Summit 2016, in Houston, Texas, July 18-20.

What issues in the petrochemical and refining industry can Deployed Resources address? How?

When they are experiencing major maintenance or unforeseen events, such as hurricane response, they often need temporary facility structures. That is what we do. We provide temporary infrastructure when they have a surge of personnel on site, including temporary dining facilities, blast-resistant offices, containerized climate-controlled restrooms or shower units. We are part of the logistics solution during pre-planned events as well as unforeseen facility disruptions, including strikes where there might be a lock-in.

This is about safety preparedness. They need an industry leading partner like Deployed Resources to ensure the safety of their personnel. We can bring in everything, whether it is temporary power generation, potable water systems or containerized laundry units and all the personnel to support, to include chefs for food service and personnel with experience with working on these sites.

What do emergency preparedness plans often lack?

They often lack a dedicated provider and a proactive approach. Most master service agreements we see in this industry lack guaranteed support language in the case of an emergency.

In this industry, it is always first come first serve, so unless the organization is guaranteed response, it runs the risk of not having a supplier that can meet all its demands in an emergency. They need to get a site back into a revenue generating mode as soon as possible. Every hour counts.

We advise a proactive instead of a reactive approach. As a supplier, it is critical we get to know our customers. When we develop a relationship with a company, we get ingrained in their corporate safety culture. In an emergency it is always better to work with someone you have communicated with before, to have a strategic partner who you know can augment your capabilities, instead of opening up the Yellow Pages or searching online for a response contractor.

What obstacles do they often face?

The environmental, health and safety divisions in companies understand the importance of proactive preparedness and they recognize the importance of having dedicated support, but they get a push-back from contracting a dedicated support standby contract. Our message is that a retainer approach is the most effective way to prepare for a contingency.