UAE-based Tristar Transport wins 2 UK road and safety gold awards 

(MENAFN Press) Dubai, UAE; May 24, 2012: Tristar Transport LLC, a global integrated liquid logistics company serving the petroleum and chemical industries, received two RoSPA Gold awards for consistently upholding the highest health and safety standards in line with internationally recognized best practices. RoSPA stands for Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and is UK-founded but has become a globally recognized benchmark for safety. Its mission is to save lives and reduce injuries.

Tristar Group CEO Eugene Mayne received the 2012 Occupational Health & Safety Gold Award and the 2012 MORR (Management of Road Risk) Gold Award in Birmingham, United Kingdom, last Thursday, May 17.

This is the second time for the global integrated liquid logistics company to be recognized for its safety standards by RoSPA The gold award is given to those organizations which have achieved a very high level of performance, demonstrating well developed occupational health and safety management systems and culture, outstanding control of risk and very low levels of error, harm and loss.

"We are delighted to win two awards this year. This comes nine years after we won our first RoSPA Occupational Health & Safety Gold award. All these awards are testament to the realization of our vision of offering superior service without compromising our core values and commitment to manage our business to the highest health, safety and environmental standards," explained Mr. Mayne.

Tristar was established in 1998 in Dubai, UAE and is now a market leader in delivering integrated liquid logistics solutions to the petroleum and chemical industries. Its interests are in storage and distribution, ocean and coastal shipping, specialized warehousing and turnkey fuel operations, including into-plane aviation fuel services.

Today, the company has an extended footprint across the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Haiti and the Pacific island of Guam. It employs more than 1,500 people of various nationalities.

Dating back to 1956, the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards scheme is the largest and longest-running program of its kind in the UK. It recognizes commitment to accident and ill health prevention and is open to businesses and organizations of all types and sizes from across the UK and overseas.

David Rawlins, RoSPA awards manager said: "The RoSPA Awards programme provides well-deserved recognition for the winners and spurs on other organisations to raise their standards of accident and ill health prevention. We congratulate Tristar Transport LLC on its success and encourage it, and all our other winners, to remain committed to safety and health, an approach that is well recognised to be good for workers and the bottom line."