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RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS FOR Continuing Professional Consulting Engineering Services -Environmental Engineering #BID 20-07-01 10 • GBTS maintains an in-house and experienced staff of fully accredited and licensed professionals. We do not have to rely on any outside vendors or subcontractors to provide the technical tasks requested by the client under this contract. The staff proposed has worked together (as a team) for over 35+ years. This configuration of staff results in a consistent level of quality with no variation on the approach or project deliverable. • All accredited GBTS professionals undergo annual refresher training. Training classes are often held exclusively for GBTS with few or no outside students allowed. This is done so that we can review project specific issues which arise and collectively determine how to resolve them while maintaining the Standard of Care for the Industry. This level of refresher training is far superior to the norm which often is a prepared class which simply reviews theoretical situations that in fact have little or no practical relevance. • Field procedures are established by the Licensed Professional Consultant and reviewed with all technical staff prior to deployment for a given project. This ensures that proper testing methods will be used and also that these methods will be consistent from one project to the next. • GBTS participates in a quality control program established and ran by the American Indust rial Hygiene Association (AIHA). Specifically, this program requires that each staff who reads asbestos air sample , for example, conduct annual analysis of standard samples send by the AIHA. This ensures both accuracy and precision when reading the Client samples in the field. • All deliverable reports or other documents are peer reviewed prior to sending to the client. This is done regardless of who drafts the report. Typically, the peer review is conducted by a senior level member prior to review by t he licensed professional. The result is that written reports are reviewed by TWO levels of professional staff. GBTS Health and Safety Program Policy GBTS is committed to protecting the health and safety of its employees by supporting a "safety first" work ethic, monitoring the work environment to minimize the occurrence of accidents, conducting vigorous investigations of accidents when they occur, and providing training. GBTS will endeavor to maintain a safe and healthful work environment, provide safe working equipment and conditions, train employees in safe work practices, provide necessary personal protective equipment, and, in the case of injuries, make available first aid and medical services. It is our goal to minimize injuries and / or illnesses in the workplace through implementation of a formal Health and Safety Program, on file with the Corporate Safety Director and HR Manager. This program includes initial and ongoing employee training on such topics as hazard recognition and control, protection p rocedures and personal protective equipment, air monitoring, medical surveillance, and other elements. Safety procedures are communicated to employees through their first -line supervisor and site-specific Health and Safety Plans (HASPs) which are typically developed for each job site. The GBTS Employee Safety and Health Handbook is provided to each employee upon hire. Additionally, GBTS employees are responsible for compliance with applicable state, local, and federal regulations. Client-specified safety requirements may apply, and will be followed by GBTS employees wherever appropriate.