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Avoid safety-critical delays during routine operations and shutdowns

Typical petrochemical operations integrate a variety of routine and non-routine tasks, contractor mobilisations, changing plant conditions and multiple permits into a compressed programme. Vessel entry, line breaking, intrusive maintenance and hot work may depend on effective isolation, acceptable gas readings, the availability of suitable respiratory protective equipment (RPE) and rescue cover being available at the same time.

At Fire Safe International, we help you prepare the life-safety equipment, wearer competence and rescue capabilities required for the planned work before your permit window opens.

How we help you:

  • Preparing RPE and gas detection for permit issue

    Your hazard assessment will determine whether employees require filtering RPE, airline breathing apparatus, self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) or emergency escape equipment. Oxygen-deficient, immediately dangerous or uncertain atmospheres may require a breathing-air supply rather than a filtering respirator depending on the findings of the risk assessment and the anticipated working conditions.
    Our technicians can coordinate face fit testing, wearer training, equipment servicing, cylinder checks and gas-detector calibration around your planned work schedule. For supplied-air RPE, we can also test compressed breathing air against BS EN 12021 and where included within the agreed scope, assess the flow available at the point of use.

  • Planning and providing rescue cover for each entry

    Effective rescue cover starts with the practical challenges of the entry, with access constraints, the likely atmosphere, casualty position and the recovery route determining the team, equipment and response plan you need. In turn, these conditions influence whether non-entry recovery is possible, whether your rescuers require breathing apparatus and how many response roles must remain available throughout the entry.

    We can train your internal rescue team or provide a dedicated operational team for defined confined-space work. The personnel and equipment are matched to your entry plan and remain available while the covered work is active.

  • Site-specific control-of-work and emergency response training

    We provide bespoke face fit testing, confined-space, and emergency response training built around the equipment, permits, alarms, communications and withdrawal procedures used on your site. Your teams will work through the full response sequence in a scenario-led workshop setting, from a gas-detector alarm and breathing-apparatus checks to entry control, casualty recovery and handover.
    Running the scenario before a shutdown helps confirm that team roles are understood, equipment works together, and information passes cleanly between permit, entry and rescue teams before contractors arrive and live work begins.

What this means for your operation:

Keeps permit-controlled work moving

Readiness checks identify any overdue servicing, calibration, face fit testing, cylinder work or rescue provision before these issues delay a live permit. This gives you the flexibility and space to address gaps while there is still time to protect the programme.

Use your in-house rescue capacity where it is needed most

With our flexible support and training service, you can maintain an internal rescue capability for routine confined-space work and bring in additional cover for shutdowns, specialist vessels or concurrent entries. This avoids carrying permanent capacity for occasional demand while also allowing your response provision to grow as your commitments change.

Reduce the coordination load on your team

Bringing connected life-safety requirements into one coordinated programme reduces the need for repeated mobilisation, fragmented handovers and separate readiness checks. 

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Who we work with 

Our training and testing services can be adapted for various petrochemical sites, applications, and operations, including:

Refinery and petrochemical operators
Tank farms, terminals and chemical-processing facilities 
Shutdown and turnaround projects
Site emergency-response and industrial fire teams 
HSE, process-safety and control-of-work managers 
Area authorities, permit issuers and contractor-management teams 

Why Fire Safe International?

Petrochemical operations leave little room for fragmented safety support, which is why, at Fire Safe International, we bring together confined-space rescue experience, respiratory protection expertise and an understanding of permit-controlled work on high-hazard sites into a single scalable service. That gives your team one technically joined-up partner who understands how rescue readiness, breathing apparatus, gas detection and emergency arrangements need to align before your critical work begins.

Can one supplier support all of our life safety requirements?

We can coordinate your respiratory protection, gas detection, breathing-air testing, confined-space training and rescue services within our service remit. These services work within your site’s overall permit-to-work, plant-isolation, hazardous-area and COMAH (Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 2015) arrangements, which remain under the control of your site management team and appointed engineering, process-safety and control-of-work specialists.

Do you provide confined space rescue teams?

Yes, we can. We provide dedicated rescue teams to remain on site while your confined-space work is carried out. Before deployment, we’ll review your space, entry points, hazards, communication method and casualty-recovery route to determine the personnel and equipment you require for the project.

Can training be tailored to refinery operations?

Yes - we can tailor your training to refinery operations by building the course around your site risk assessment, emergency response plan, operating procedures and plant-specific hazards. Sessions and scenarios can cover hydrocarbon fires, flammable atmospheres, gas detection, breathing apparatus, spill response, confined-space entry and casualty recovery, using your actual equipment, access routes and emergency roles.

Do you provide nationwide support?

Yes, Fire Safe International serve both individual sites and national accounts throughout the UK. For organisations with several locations, visits can be arranged as a proactively planned, coordinated site-by-site programme.

Find out more

To find out more about our services, please call 01743 761000 to discuss your project requirements, or arrange a planning meeting with one of our technical specialists.