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The 4gas and 5 gas meters we used were between $3500 and $5000 each and had to be calibrated daily with the calibration gas ($300 to $800 for a small tank) and records have to be kept.

You can rent them from some places but it will run you between $500 and $2000 per day depending on where you can find them for rent. Drop it in water or chemicals and you bought it.

There are places out there where you can take some of the classes but they are starting about $1500.00 on up depending on what class you take and how many you need to get.

I have a feeling that the class at the H&M will be either an intro class or maybe an overview class, most places charge a lot more than what the weekend event cost for one of the classes.
 
Christopher said:
The 4gas and 5 gas meters we used were between $3500 and $5000 each and had to be calibrated daily with the calibration gas ($300 to $800 for a small tank) and records have to be kept.

You can rent them from some places but it will run you between $500 and $2000 per day depending on where you can find them for rent. Drop it in water or chemicals and you bought it.

There are places out there where you can take some of the classes but they are starting about $1500.00 on up depending on what class you take and how many you need to get.

I have a feeling that the class at the H&M will be either an intro class or maybe an overview class, most places charge a lot more than what the weekend event cost for one of the classes.
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It clearly said your Certified...
 
I'm already Certified, Hazmat & Confined Space, not My company but the Company I work for.

Chris & Lou bring up some very valid points..... If you don't have O2 meters, SCBA's, Rescue Tri-pod and harnesses and a written SOP, the Certification ain't worth the paper it's written on, and you won't go in the hole or tank or where ever.

Lou brought some of this up on the Uamcc thread and Tom called him negative and dramatic,wasn't that at all, Lou just told the truth.

I feel Tom is still not taking Contractors seriously (for whatever reason), he gets Educated Feedback from some Contractors, and then calls them names.

Tom says there's going to be experts there, I would like to see the list.
 
Guy Blackmon said:
I'm already Certified, Hazmat & Confined Space, not My company but the Company I work for.

Chris & Lou bring up some very valid points..... If you don't have O2 meters, SCBA's, Rescue Tri-pod and harnesses and a written SOP, the Certification ain't worth the paper it's written on, and you won't go in the hole or tank or where ever.

Lou brought some of this up on the Uamcc thread and Tom called him negative and dramatic,wasn't that at all, Lou just told the truth.

I feel Tom is still not taking Contractors seriously (for whatever reason), he gets Educated Feedback from some Contractors, and then calls them names.

Tom says there's going to be experts there, I would like to see the list.
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http://www.fleetwashacademy.com/

We are talking about it now
 
Among my many certifications I am also confined space certified. Chris is right on there being different levels of certification, but I think that the level you need deals with what type of confined space entry you are making. I would think that a refinery would be an upper level entry. That is just my opinion. He might be offering a certification that is for a particular industry that is in, or around, South Bend, Indiana.

I cannot say I am surprised that he would attack Lou for being negative. He does not take criticism well.
 
I'll guess will have to wait until Tuesday to see what Tom is talking about when it comes onto his website. I am holding off my opinion on this until after then. If there is certifications and lessons there that are valuable then $860 might night be to bad of a deal....Will see soon.
 
Since I left the refinery 2 years ago, I think that I would have to do the re-certifying all over again, you always had to re-new your certifications every year along with training for each module.

I have not had any requests or opportunities for using the confined space knowledge since I left the refinery but you never know.
 
Ron Musgraves said:
I dont see you or Myself doing confined space cleaning.
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That is funny Ron! hahahahaha

When I wrote the Safe Work Permits for Confined Space, I had to go into the manway openings and walk around in the tank with SCBA or Breathing Air Supplied Respirator and flashlight and 5 gas monitor and make sure that it was safe for workers to go in there and do their job.

I got into a lot of places that the guys were betting money against me that I would not be able to get into or if I got in, I would not be able to get out. hahahahaha

We had to go in first and make sure that the environment was safe so others could work. There was a few times that I could not get in so I had another employee help me out with that entrance.

On the initial openings we were suited up with chemical suits, chemical boots, breathing air respirators and all taped closed so the chemical vapors would not get into our suits, not for the closterphobic people.

You had to be very careful inside those tanks, there were wells in the floor that were from 2' to 10' deep where the pumps pull suction at that tank and you could walk right into them and fall in, no barricades until workers got in there once it is safe and chemicals and vapors are removed by washing with firehoses for days at a time and using vacuum trucks to remove the chemical/water mixes and disposing it at the on-site wastewater station.

It was interesting to say the least.

I got certified for the Initial Entry Confined Space Permit Writer but only wrote maybe 15 or 20 of those permits, the regular Confined Space Permits, probably wrote a couple hundred of those permits working up to the Initial Entry Confined Space Permit Writer certification. It all took time and a lot of permits to move up to the higher level of permit writer.
 
Did anyone ever get their super secrete INVITE after the application process that was never posted. What a joke.:barf: :kma:
 
Chris Tharpe said:
Did anyone ever get their super secrete INVITE after the application process that was never posted. What a joke.:barf: :kma:
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Everybody got one except you, Ron, and Guy.
Sorry you're gonna miss it!
 
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