Riclem Enviromental Services

Riclem is a company that was created in 2006 as one of the companies to respond to environmental emergencies related to hazardous materials special handling fuel spills. Our offices are located in Bo. Sabana Seca, Road 866, Ramon Rios Roman Ave. Building 59 of the Municipality of Toa Baja. The same is incorporated in the year 2009. During this period, the company handled cases of oil spills in incidents related to oil storage tanks for generators, gas stations and fuel tanks carry . Our human resources were trained to handle emergencies related to hydrocarbons , dissolved in water, soil or content in confined areas. This unit has eight employees for field work especially in the oil spill response full time with the company and a squad of twenty part-time workers which are activated in cases of large-scale emergencies . The staff of full-time employees who work in Riclem , has the required training for handling hazardous substances , have responded to spill responses where fires have been sparked by the incident. In addition, this staff has worked in incidents where the spilled substance (diesel , gasoline and oil # 6) has migrated to the river systems , water bodies and confined areas. In response to these types of events template Riclem work has developed the following a procedure to deal with incidents involving hazardous substances. 1. Mobilization of the work units (trucks , equipment and materials ) to the incident in a reasonable time to the location where it occurs . 2. Strategies are established location of the headquarters of the company and delineation of the restricted area in the project. We discuss the incident data and initiates the risk assessment of the incident using the format provided by Riclem . Our staff is committed to the use of personal protective equipment and the company designates a resource such as health and safety officer during operations. 3. Payment order is initiated in the sector and establishing measures of personal safety for the various tasks of field staff. 4. The staff started a exploratory to identify storm systems that may be impacted by the incident. Barriers are installed container and absorbent material to prevent migration of the substance. 5. We proceed to establish priorities for the emergency taking into consideration the analysis of regulatory agencies and the availability of technology. Are also established work plans considering the weather, the geography of the sector, the characteristics of the substance , the availability of access and technology available to make recovery efforts of the substance , decontamination of the site and for payment . 6. For containment and recovery of spilled material (hydrocarbons) Riclem staff used absorbent materials ( Pamper , pads, absorbent sand, improvised trenches of recovery in the affected area , vacuum Truck, vacuum pumps , vermiculite and other measures. 7. The staff has worked Riclem fuel spills have severely impacted water body . In the cleaning this unit stands out for its ability to identify and clean up pockets of free product on the banks of the waterbody impacted. The staff skill acquired Riclem field to collect the fuel surface sheets that migrate over the body of water, were essential to protect a water supply is important as Carite Lake . ( Stroke diesel tank Guavate ) This staff established strategic collection points and confined, collected and pack the product with a recovery of more than 95 % of the film suspended in the water body. 8. For handling and packaging of the substance spilled , the staff establishes control measures to prevent splashing or spillage of the substance and collected in areas not impacted by the spill.