Clas Consulting provided Consultants for positions supporting the Unified Area Command and Louisiana Incident Command Post. 

Consultants responsibilities included providing Subject Matter Expertise on disaster response and recovery; program development and management of response and recovery Safety Management Systems, potable water program, and base installation and inspection program; liaison to State Fire Marshall and Louisiana Department of Public Health and Hospitals. 

As part of the response Clas Consulting also provided health and safety oversight and project management to Louisiana and Mississippi Piling and Rigid Pipe Boom Removal Project. (November 2010 – February 2011). The project included the removal of 2,061 steel and wood pilings and 12,800 linear feet of rigid pipe boom which had been put into placed in strategic areas in Louisiana and Mississippi during the MC252 response to protect shoreline from being oiled. The on-water removal of these pilings and equipment includes significant risk factors such as commercial dive operations, critical on-water crane lifts, hot work, marine safety, etc. 

We provided field industrial hygienists on board NOAA vessels and as industrial hygienists and confined space entry experts for the large vessel decontamination operations. Consultants were deployed in early June of 2010 and continued to actively participate in the Response and Recovery Operations through February 2011.