Business View Magazine | April 2020

88 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE APRIL 2020 the environment.” ProFrac also takes an aggressive stance on drugs and alcohol and has done so since day one. Kaster notes, “The oil fields have a reputation for being heavy with drug use because of the long hours. So, we continually monitor the hours our truck drivers are working so as to not have fatigued drivers out on the road. Secondly, on our drug testing, we not only test to the level that our federal government requires but we actually go above that, because the Feds only require truck drivers to be tested. We require all of our employees to be tested at the same levels, and we actually test for all synthetics, as well as the normal drugs you’d see in a drug test because the last thing we want is an impaired driver out on the road.” As for recent initiatives in health and safety, like the rest of the world, ProFrac is currently in the midst of trying to slow down the novel coronavirus. Because their oilfield workers live in “man camps” with very close quarters, and they ride crew buses together to work every day, the company is actively doing its best by training employees and working with customers on ways to mitigate the potential for the spread of COVID-19. To double down on that, ProFrac has a Medical Directorate that is overseeing the process to make sure protocols are followed. “We are also members of PESA (Petroleum Equipment Services Association),” says Kaster. “And right now, I’m in charge of educating oilfield workers on human trafficking. It is a multi-billion dollar industry, worldwide, that targets the market of predominantly male groups like we have in the oilfields and it usually goes hand- in-hand with drug abuse. So, through PESA we do educational awareness in the man camps, so they can actually lock down their facilities more and make it harder for the traffickers to access those places. Thankfully, I work for a company that totally supports that.” Community involvement and outreach is