Enforcement agencies recommend hiring certified professionals for a gun range reclamation or environmental remediation project. The magnitude of the undertaking requires significant know-how, equipment, and financial input. Subsequently, to avoid exposure from unfinished projects, it is crucial to identify a financially stable and trustworthy contractor. This is because if an issue comes up months (even years) after your project is complete, you must ensure that the contractor you selected is stable enough to sustain regulatory agency inquiries and potential lawsuits and fines.
It’s Not Only Bullets
You Need to Watch Out for in a Shooting Range!
The increased popularity of outdoor ranges heightens
the cases
of lead exposure, presenting a danger to the general public. Vital to
ensuring compliance and even surpassing regulatory requirements, you have to
identify a contractor with verified financial assets. But how do you do
that?
- Scan the firm’s project
management capabilities. The contractor should be capable of adhering to the
quality requirement listed in the building and construction guidelines.
Besides, construction contractors must be able to comply with set environmental
standards especially those relating to lead remediation. - Seek audited financial
documents to prove the construction contractor has sufficient company assets.
With this insight, you can leverage on the company’s ability to compensate you
without going bankrupt in the eventuality a violation of the contract terms
arises. - Contractor must be able to document, with
audited financials, sufficient company assets to finish your project, not just
take your lead and allow it to sustain defending you against a claim or actual
violation without going bankrupt leaving your range unprotected and exposed.
(Suggested minimum $1,000,000)
PROOF: You should require a notarized
CPA audit letter confirming company assets.
When performing renovations & construction, contractor must be required to
provide a payment-performance bond.
OSHA Regulations
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
sets the standards of lead exposure in shooting ranges’ establishing guidelines
concerning construction design parameters, site selection, planning, and
support facilities. Besides, OSHA and EPA stipulate lead-regulation with
non-compliance attracting penalties for
businesses.
In Conclusion
In the delivery of the project, a contractor who
fully understands the work involved and has the financial muscle puts you in
better standing and protects your range. To avoid inconvenient delays, as well
as expensive, incomplete gun range lead cleanup projects, scan through audited
financial documents of gun range contractors. In doing so, you can avoid bad
experiences and get good value for your gun range. Choose the proposition that
represents the best value for your environmental objectives.
MT2 Firing Range Services is
the #1 largest most cost-effective nationwide professional indoor & outdoor
firing range lead reclamation, maintenance and construction contractor
providing the highest value for your recycled lead. Now in our 18th year in
business, MT2 Firing Range Services is a recent Inc. 5,000 fastest growing
company and is well-known industry wide for being the nation’s #1 largest
professional provider of the full scale of outdoor/indoor firing range
environmental/maintenance/construction services at over 2,500 ranges nationwide
for Law Enforcement, Military and Commercial ranges in all 50 states. No one
reclaims more lead or finishes a project faster than MT2!!
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