Mark Lo­quan, pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of T&T Lim­it­ed, signed the Safe to Work (STOW) Char­ter, demon­strat­ing the com­pa­ny's re-com­mit­ment to the orig­i­nal ob­jec­tives of STOW.

Present at the sign­ing, which took place at the ex­ec­u­tive of­fice of the En­er­gy Cham­ber of T&T, were Dr Thack­wray Dri­ver, pres­i­dent and CEO of the En­er­gy Cham­ber and NGC of­fi­cials Maria Thorne, Vice Pres­i­dent, Le­gal & Cor­po­rate Man­age­ment and Heather Moore-Bernard, Man­ag­er, Risk Man­age­ment.

NGC joins 25 ma­jor op­er­at­ing com­pa­nies in the oil and gas sec­tor who have signed the char­ter and agreed to adopt the STOW-TT HSE re­quire­ments as a manda­to­ry pre­req­ui­site for ser­vice providers com­pet­ing for busi­ness with­in T&T. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, Lo­quan iden­ti­fied Jan­u­ary 1, 2017, as the cut-off date af­ter which STOW cer­ti­fi­ca­tion will be­come manda­to­ry for all of NGC's ser­vice providers.

NGC is one of the ma­jor play­ers in the oil and gas sec­tor and this sign­ing points to the grow­ing im­por­tance and in­flu­ence of STOW and strength­ens the mes­sage of the par­tic­i­pat­ing op­er­at­ing com­pa­nies that seek to en­sure ac­cept­able HSE per­for­mance of ser­vice providers in the oil and gas sec­tor.

STOW is a cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gramme for con­trac­tors' HSE man­age­ment sys­tems and is a min­i­mum re­quire­ment for con­tract­ing com­pa­nies wish­ing to pro­vide ser­vices to any of the STOW char­ter op­er­at­ing com­pa­nies in T&T.

Since the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of the first com­pa­ny in 2010, 485 com­pa­nies have achieved STOW cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and this fig­ure is on­ly ex­pect­ed to grow in the near fu­ture.

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On STOW, vis­it the STOW Web­site at http://stowtt.en­er­gy.tt or con­tact the STOW Project Of­fice at 636�3749 Ext. 27, 31 or 32.