Shutdown, Turnaround and Outage Services

Holistic solutions that improve efficiency and maintain compliance

Nothing is more expensive than downtime. Minimize it with proactive and comprehensive safety execution.

Maintenance events, planned or unplanned, come with tight timelines, high risk, and significant cost pressures. SITEX offers a wide variety of services to support shutdowns, turnarounds, and outages with end-to-end safety, confined space / high angle rescue, industrial hygiene, and environmental solutions designed to:

Reduce downtime
Improve contractor safety coordination and statistics
Maintain regulatory compliance

The experienced SITEX team brings the structure, supervision, and support to help your project stay on schedule and on budget.

Complete your work safely and expedite your return to operations with help from our safety, confined space / high angle rescue, industrial hygiene, and environmental solutions. Leverage critical capabilities across:

Jobsite supervision
Hazard management
Compliance tracking
Safety equipment support

Comprehensive Shutdown, Outage and Turnaround Services

From compliance verification to safety supervision, you’ve got a lot to manage during a turnaround, especially if it involves multiple sites.

These steps require careful compliance verification, dedicated safety supervision, and reliable coordination across teams.

Any delay, gap in safety coverage, or overlooked regulation can result in missed deadlines or unplanned expenditures.

That’s why SITEX provides a full range of safety and environmental services that support every phase of your shutdown, turnaround, or outage project, with the flexibility to scale up for complex, multi-site events across critical industries, including:

Energy and Utilities
Oil and Gas
Chemical
Manufacturing
Food and Beverage

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SITEX Turnaround Safety Services

SITEX works as a single-source provider to reduce coordination gaps and help teams meet key safety and compliance milestones throughout each phase of your project. Our support includes:

Site Safety Supervisor / CSP Staffing

Our trained site safety professionals can lead on compliance, inspections, and jobsite safety protocols.

Confined Space Rescue Teams

Our fully trained rescue teams are ready to respond to emergencies and meet OSHA requirements. We also support required planning and documentation required for confined space entries, which reduces risk and protects your team in the event of an incident.

Asbestos Inspection

Identify and manage asbestos-containing materials through inspections and air monitoring that support compliance and reduce long-term worker exposure risks.

Breathing Air Solutions and Rentals

Provide safe, clean breathing air to workers in hazardous or oxygen-deficient environments with equipment delivered and maintained on-site.

Industrial Hygiene Services

Manage exposure risks and ensure compliance through hygiene assessments, sampling, and strategy.

Air Monitoring

Maintain visibility into jobsite conditions with air monitoring for gas detection, silica, particulates, and more.

Noise Monitoring

Monitor and document workplace noise levels to protect worker hearing, support OSHA compliance, and meet your project’s health and safety requirements.

Hexavalent Chromium Testing

Support OSHA compliance with exposure assessments, air sampling, and documentation that help protect workers from this airborne contaminant.

Planning and Project Management Support

Coordinate early with our safety specialists to develop site-specific safety plans, identify hazards, and plan for staffing and PPE needs.

Training and Orientation Services

SITEX assists with onboarding contractors, verifying certifications, and designing safety orientations for your project.

PPE and Equipment Logistics

Forecast and supply the protective gear and specialized safety equipment you need, with delivery aligned to your project schedule.

Nothing Is More Expensive Than Downtime
— So Minimize It

Shutdowns, turnarounds, and outages are complex, multi-phase projects where any delay, incident, or oversight can have a ripple effect, throwing schedules and budgets off track.

Many companies don’t set themselves up for success in these complicated projects:

80%

of shutdown, turnaround and outage projects exceed planned costs by 10% or more

90%

of these projects fail to meet their expected goals

NEARLY

50%

of manufacturing facility accidents occur during maintenance outages

MORE THAN

50%

of all turnarounds experience significant delays

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Why Turnaround Execution Falls Short

Even with months of planning, many shutdowns and turnarounds struggle to stay on track. Risks can increase as a result of:

Unexpected discovery of problems like asbestos, which can create delays and impact project timelines.
Failure to plan for compliance with OSHA’s hexavalent chromium standards, which can be triggered when work involves welding stainless steel
Not identifying the need for confined rescue teams or scheduling them in advance, which can delay other work.
Limited bandwidth or miscommunication among internal teams

While many facilities quarterback turnaround planning internally, bringing in a safety and environmental partner earlier in the process can help ensure all hazard, compliance, and staffing considerations are fully addressed and aligned with your schedule.

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It’s Never Too Early to Get Safety Involved

Safety plays a role in every phase of a shutdown, turnaround, or outage.

Every company’s needs are different, but involving a safety and environmental services provider like SITEX early in the process can reduce risk, improve coordination, and identify potential problems as soon as possible.

With SITEX, you get a centralized team that understands turnaround services at every phase and knows how to keep your project moving when conditions shift.

Here’s how SITEX can support your project:

During planning, SITEX can provide strategic guidance on:

Confined space entry requirements: Identifying the need for a confined space entry team is crucial. Limited availability is a common problem. SITEX has pre-vetted teams around the country to help ensure you get these professionals on-site when you need them.
Hazard controls and abatement: Our teams can identify abatement issues during pre-outage work to help a surprise problem not become a much bigger delay.t
Safety and protective equipment: High-end safety equipment is not only expensive to purchase but can be costly and time-consuming to maintain. SITEX can provide the latest gear to your worksite when it’s needed.
Training and orientation programs: SITEX can deliver orientation training to contractors working on your shutdown, turnaround and outage project.
Verification of certifications and credentials: Ensuring workers on-site possess valid, up-to-date certifications is critical to meeting compliance requirements and avoiding delays.

These elements are mapped into workflows to prevent costly surprises once the project is underway.

SITEX helps you:

Dispatch safety supervisors and rescue teams
Expedite PPE or equipment delivery
Monitor air quality and site conditions
Manage change safely when the plan shifts mid-project
Ensure machinery lockup/tagout verification and paper work is in order
Coordinate safety meetings as needed

After the project wraps, SITEX supports clients in post-project evaluation, including:

Safety and environmental KPI tracking
Safety performance reviews
Lessons-learned documentation to improve future shutdowns, turnarounds, and outages

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