Air Products’ Ellesmere Port Facility Receives Prestigious Safety Award
LONDON, UK (April 2010) — Air Products’ (NYSE:APD) has been honoured with the European Industrial Gases Association’s (EIGA) most prestigious safety award. Recognising the company’s outstanding safety performance, the Gold award commended their Ellesmere Port facility for achieving 30 years and 1 million worked hours without a lost time incident.
Highlighting the successful European harmonisation of Air Products operating standards and Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) best practice, EIGA also presented their Perafita (Portugal) facility with a Gold award. Two further Silver awards, representing 10 years without any lost time incidents, have been presented to their facilities in Kedzierzyn (Poland) and Masalfasar (Spain). Along with Bronze awards presented to the company’s sites in Toulouse and Nantes (France) and Neuenstadt and Hattingen (Germany).
Milan Patel, Health and Safety Manager - Europe, commented: “As a responsible company, our top priority is ensuring Air Products’ operations comply fully with globally-recognised assurances of safety. We are extremely proud of the commitment and focus shown by our teams at all of the sites recognised by EIGA.
“In addition to industry standards, within our company we set extremely high benchmarks for our operational safety performance. By repeatedly meeting and building on these standards, our people, customers, suppliers and local communities continually reap the benefits.” |
