American Westech - Enviromental Laboratory Services and Specialized Consulting

WESTECH functions as a highly skilled practitioner in the areas of environmental, health and safety compliance and consulting, industrial hygiene, indoor air quality, indoor environmental quality, training and education. "Professional excellence" and "commitment to client satisfaction" have emerged as two of our most prominent business attractants. We are devoted to the achievement of your project goals and the delivery of total client satisfaction. We offer a broad range of consulting services tailored to meet the specific and diverse needs of the many businesses, industries, contractors, health care facilities, schools, and government agencies we serve. With our wide range of professional excellence and diverse experience, we are able to provide our clients with a broad range of services that include regulatory compliance audits, project management and oversight, protocol and project specifications development, program development and implementation, and specialized training. We have performed work in Brazil, Argentina, and Puerto Rico in addition to our routine work performed in Pennsylvania and throughout the United States of America. Our consulting staff has impressive credentials and qualifications that include the following:

Our primary EHS focus is geared toward compliance consulting. Our environmental and OSHA "GAP" audits are unique and provide our clients valuable knowledge required to minimize exposure, risk, and liability while maximizing worker safety and production. The onsite GAP audits provide a cost-effective approach to determine "where you are", "where you need to be", and "how to get there in a timely manner".

Our IAQ, IEQ and Mold and Moisture consulting services focus on identifying problems that actually exist and providing timely, cost-effective solutions up to and including corrective actions. Since WESTECH does not perform any remediation (i.e. mold), restoration (i.e. fire and water), or corrective actions (i.e. HVAC maintenance, systems balancing, etc.), we have no conflicts of interest that can interfere with the identification process, development of remediation plans or corrective action plans. We are free to work toward our goal of educating and training our clients to prevent problems or deal intelligently with problems when and if they exist.

COMMERCIAL BUILDING & REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

The purchase of a commercial building or real estate is a very big investment from which timing is everything. Loans and grant money are getting more and more difficult to secure without a thorough building or property assessment. Our consulting staff focuses on identifying problems that actually exist rather than those that may exist. We provide timely, cost-effective, and practical solutions to meet all of your needs and deadlines. Since we do not perform remediation or abatement work (i.e. underground storage tanks, mold, asbestos, lead, etc.), restoration work (i.e. fire and water), or construction work, conflicts of interest do not interfere with the assessment process. Our unique method of combining an environmental site assessment with a building systems and components assessment provides buyers and/or lending institutions a thorough understanding of costs associated with all work required to remediate environmental issues and provides a basis for estimating costs to improve the building systems (i.e. electrical, plumbing, HVAC, structural, etc.). Most consultants simply perform the environment and engineering assessments without any knowledge of the planned use of the building. On projects where building renovations are likely, we work closely with your architect prior to make sure we fully understand the desired future use of the building. This has proved invaluable to our clients in developing cost budgets while hitting due diligence deadlines. We help our clients clearly identify whether a building will or will not be able to be renovated cost-effectively in conjunction with their intended useage.

Our services include, but are not limited, to the following areas:

Phase I Environmental Site Assessments
Phase II Environmental Site Assessments
Electrical Systems Assessments
Plumbing Systems Assessments
Mechanical Systems Assessments
Structural Systems Assessments
Asbestos Inspections
Lead & Lead Based Paint Assessments
Mold & Moisture Assessments
Hazardous Materials Assessments
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) Assessments
Mercury Assessments
Litigation Support & Expert Testimony
Project Planning & Construction Support

Listed below is a short-list of training classes administered by our staff of environmental, health & safety specialists. Classes are primarily offered on-site utilizing the Client’s equipment because we strongly believe that the Client and its employees receive greater benefit by being trained on the equipment that is routinely used. However, we also provide open enrollment classes that are held at our location depending on our Clients’ needs, requests, and number of students registered for each class.

Listed below is a general list of the classes WESTECH offers. However, please call or email one of our account specialists to obtain the most current class topics, open-enrollment schedule, specific class information and fees.

HazWOPER — Worker Health & Safety (40 hours)
HazWOPER — HazMAT Technician (24 hours)
HazWOPER — Operations (8 Hours)
HazWOPER — Awareness Level (4 hours)
HazWOPER — Worker Health/Safety Refresher (8 hours)
HazWOPER — HazMAT Technician Refresher (8 hours)
HazWOPER — HazMAT Operations Refresher (4 hours)
HazWOPER — HazMAT Awareness Refresher (2 hours)
Confined Space — Rescue (16 hours)
Confined Space — Operations (8 hours)
Confined Space — Rescue Refresher (6 hours)
General Safety — Elevated Work Platforms Safety Awareness (4 hours)
General Safety — Powered Industrial Trucks Safety Awareness (4 hours)
General Safety — Respiratory Protection Awareness, APRs (4 hours)
General Safety — Respiratory Protection Awareness, SAR (8 hours)
General Safety — Industrial Fire Brigade — Incipient (8 hours)
Construction Safety — Fall Protection User Awareness (4 — 8 hours)
Construction Safety — Scaffold User Awareness (4 — 8 hours)
Construction Safety — Excavation Awareness (2 hours)
Construction Safety — Excavation User (4 — 8 hours)
Mold Prevention & Remediation (24 hours)
Mold Prevention (4 — 8 hours)

10-HOUR — General Industry & Construction
30-HOUR — General Industry & Construction

First Aid/CPR training classes are available at our Medic First Aid "Regional Training Center" or at your facility. The two (2) year certification will help meet your emergency response and safety compliance requirements. We are currently able to train up to 12 students per class in this simple and enjoyable one (1) day class. Supplemental certifications include: AED (Automated External Defibrillator), Emergency Oxygen, and Bloodborne Pathogens.

WESTECH is a co-sponsor of a wide range of online training courses relative to environmental, safety and mining compliance. To view or register for any of those courses, click the link below.

WESTECH performs Qualitative and Quantitative Respirator Fit Testing with documentation and depending on your needs, fit testing can be performed at our facility or on location.

We provide Certificates of Training for all of our specialized classes and, depending on your needs, for our awareness classes.