Business View Magazine | September 2019

316 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2019 Work performed in radiologically controlled zones is inherently riskier and carries additional expenses. If the utilities want to keep their costs low, the focus needs to be on ensuring that their materials and equipment are being decontaminated and managed in efficient and sustainable ways. UniTech Services Group, a nuclear services subsidiary of UniFirst Corporation, is 100 percent in sync with the CNSC’s Waste Management Regulatory Policy P-290 and has been promoting and successfully implementing a “Reduce • Reuse • Recycle” waste reduction/cost savings strategy for many years. This has been accomplished via investments in: 1) R&D into decon chemistries/fabrics, 2) unique, purpose-built, high-tech monitoring instrumentation and 3) the design/fabrication of launderable replacement PPE for single-use products. UniTech’s “Reduce • Reuse • Recycle” strategy has achieved very significant, fully documented/verifiable waste reductions and cost savings for the Canadian Nuclear Industry. “We came to Canada in the fall of 2001,” says Kent Anderson, Director of Canadian Operations at UniTech. “At the time, there was some refurbishment and restarting of the reactors and the laundry volumes in the form of contaminated workers’ garments, equipment, and tools were outstripping their capacity. We implemented a launderable program and leased these facilities the clothing and materials needed - everything from bags and coveralls to cart covers and tents. It all went from single use to a launderable product and we’ve washed over 40 million of these items in the last 15 years.” “We started with clothing and advanced into tools and equipment,” Anderson continues. “Today, we offer a whole suite of custom radiation monitors that operate with almost assembly-line precision. These monitors survey every square centimeter of whatever we put on the belt. They monitor 100 percent of that item. They do it fast. They do it with computer-controlled statistics. They do it with repeatability. This removes all the human factors from the hand-frisking equation.” 214 BRUCE AVENUE, KINCARDINE, ON CANADA N2Z 2P3 WWW.SED.BZ 1-800-665-2740 | 519-396-8555 PRODUCTS AND SERVICES THAT FIT OUR CUSTOMERS' NEEDS W H E N L I V E S A R E O N T H E L I N E , C O M M U N I C A T E W I T H C O N F I D E N C E ™