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5th March 2009 – The European Industrial Gases Association (EIGA) has honoured Air Products’ Wilton plant with a prestigious safety award recognising their excellent performance and commitment in this area. The Bronze award recognises 5 consecutive years without employee loss-time incidents at the company’s hydrogen gas and liquid carbon dioxide manufacturing plant.
Highlighting the successful harmonisation of Air Products’ operating standards and EHS best practice globally, EIGA also gave their facility in Zaragoza (Spain) a Gold award representing a momentous 15 years without lost time incidents. A further Silver award was presented to their facility in Glogow (Poland), representing 10 years without any lost time incidents or 500,000 employee hours worked. The company’s sites in Arrigorriaga (Spain) and Vilvoorde (Belgium) also received Bronze.
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.”
EIGA has also honoured Air Products with their esteemed Annual Road Safety Award for the second time in three years. The honour recognises the company’s lowest accident rate for cylinder vehicles driven 500,000 – 2,000,000KM in Germany.
“Through comprehensive training, we provide all Air Products’ drivers with the necessary skills and expertise to work safely and prevent risks,” commented Kim DelSordo, Air Products’ General Manager - Northern Continent Packaged Gases. “Winning this award from EIGA demonstrates that those efforts really are working and helping us set an industry standard.” |
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