Ice Management

Whether you are already provide salting services or you are thinking about starting, it is important to establish best practices that will guide your company and help to protect it should you ever be faced with a lawsuit. Rick Kier, CSP addresses some major areas to consider with your salting services.

Safety in snow and ice control should always be of the utmost concern in your business. While the commonly used de-icing chemicals are generally safe for humans, safety measures must still be observed while using or handling de-icers.

With colder temperatures, rising fuel costs and a challenging economy that pretty much sucked every penny from our clients' operating budgets, there is an undeniable need for greater application efficiencies. One such option is to pretreat salt.

Estimating the volume of a salt pile can serve two purposes: to estimate how much salt you can store in a given space or how much salt is left in a pile.

The winter of 2007-08 was a lesson in how the weather can cause shortages of materials, particularly road salt. Extended periods of above-average snowfall, freezing rain (in areas where it is uncommon), and associated ice and compacted snow put extreme pressure on chemical inventories. It also tested the resupply system and its strategies. Now is the time to look back at the winter's events, learn from them and develop strategies to deal with future shortage situations.