Q      What do you provide?

A:      Action Response Team Provides Professional and Comprehensive Confined Space Entry/Rescue, Trench to High-Angle Rescue and Safety Services

Q     What is a Confined Space?

• Has limited or restricted means of entry or exit
• Is large enough for an employee to enter and perform assigned work and
• Is not designed for continuous living by the employee

Q     Where do confined spaces exist?

A:     Underground vaults, tanks, co-gens, storage bins, pits, vessels, sewers, and silos, etc.

Q     What is a Permit-Required Confined Space?

• First it must meet the definition of a Confined Space
• Second it must have either one or more of the following characteristics
• Contains or has the potential to contain a hazardous atmosphere
• Contains a material that has the potential for engulfing the entrant
• Has an internal configuration that might cause an entrant to be trapped or asphyxiated by inwardly converging walls or by a floor that slopes downward and tapers to a smaller cross section, and/or
• Contains any other recognized serious safety or health hazards

Q     What's the difference between Confined Spaces and a Permit-Required Confined Spaces?

A:     The term "permit-required confined space" refers to those spaces that meet the definition of a "confined space" and may pose health or safety hazards, thereby requiring a permit for entry.

Q     Where does Action Response Team perform the majority of their work?

A:     Oil Fields, Co-gens, Manufacturing Plants, etc.

Q     What other services do you provide?

A:     Many corporations seek out Action Response Team for our basic-to-highly technical safety know how. We provide On-site confined space assessments, Emergency Medical Review and we analyze your company's current safety procedures and OSHA compliance.

Q     What is High-Angle Rescue?

A: High-Angle Rescue is a division of technical rope rescue that involves high angles such as over a steep edge or even undergound often requiring specialized gear and involved rigging.

Q     What is Trench Rescue?

A: Trench rescue is a highly specialized form of rescue, a subset of confined space rescue. Trench rescue involves shoring up the sides of a trench, and digging a trapped worker out of a collapsed ditch

Q     Are you like the Fire Department?

A:     No. Although Fire Departments receive annual training in these same areas, we work in them regularly. Our staff is highly trained in the real world working environment that Fire Departments would not be able to afford for training.

Q     What is an IDLH Environment?

A:     Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health

Q     Do you work in IDLH Environments?

A:     Yes.

Q     Are you really trained in the latest State Of The Art Equipment?

A:     Yes. We are willing to spend the time and the money on the latest most advanced, efficient and durable equipment known to man. No matter the cost, when we learn of something new we go to specialized classes, receive training and if the equipment really out-performs what we already have, then. we gratify our insatiable need to be #1

Q     What type of equipment do you have?

A:     Please see our Equipment page.

Q     Can you recommend what equipment might be best for our company?

A:     No one knows your business as good as you. However we do stay up to date with the latest and greatest equipment for the environments we work in.We do recommend certain companies who we know to provide high quality, trustworthy equipment for the services we perform. Please see our company recommendation page.

Q     Do you meet the requirements for rescue, safety and OSHA compliance?

A:     Our Confined Space Rescue Division is continuously updating our standard operating guidelines and safety procedures to not just meet, but exceed industry requirements and standards.