Essential Safety Products receives new training vault
SEPTEMBER 2014 — Essential Safety Products (ESP) specializes in distributing occupational safety, health, ergonomic, environmental equipment and supplies, as well as assisting a wide variety of industries in achieving the goal of total worker safety. Their certified trainers provide courses, including simulated situations, designed to safeguard employees from the hazards they face every day. Due to their recent move to a new training facility, ESP needed a new confined space simulator. After discussions between Garney and ESP, the conclusion was made that the construction of two partially buried precast vaults and a connecting pipeline were what ESP’s classes needed to simulate confined space safety and rescue tactics. Due to the tight quarters of the new facility, each piece of the four-piece vaults had to be placed by a 200-ton crane. The pieces were able to be off-loaded next to the excavation with the largest piece of the vault coming in at 35,000 pounds. The project is now the only realistic training facility of its kind in Colorado.
The following companies provided goods and services for this project: Garney Construction provided more than 180 hours including a crew of six, Project Superintendent, and Regional Safety Manager; Duffy Crane and Hauling provided services of the second largest 350-ton hydraulic Terex crane in Colorado that required 200,000 pounds of counterweights and volunteered a crew of three; Oldcastle Precast provided one 7 x 11 vault and one 8 x 8 vault, as well as 40 feet of 48-inch diameter reinforced concrete pipe (RCP); and Hockaday Trucking provided transportation services for Garney’s excavator and crew equipment to complete this project.
ESP owner Ed Stephenson is thrilled with the outcome of this project, and believes it will tremendously help their training program with realistic confined space simulations. “We couldn’t turn down Garney’s offer to build this vault; having a real-life vault simulator that is good enough for a contractor will definitely be beneficial for training municipalities and engineers. This project exceeded all my expectations,” Stephenson said. All team members worked collaboratively together to complete a successful, and above all else, safe project, in just over three days.