MATHESON Wins Leonard Parker Pool Safety Award
Basking Ridge, NJÂ –The Compressed Gas Association (CGA) has awarded the prestigious Leonard Parker Pool Safety Award to MATHESON. The award was announced in April at the Annual CGA's Meeting of the Members. This year the CGA celebrated its 100th anniversary as the Standard for Safety in the gas industry.
The Leonard Parker Pool Awards honor the memory of Leonard Parker Pool, the founder, and former chief executive of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. The awards are presented annually to participating CGA member companies that have recorded the greatest improvement in safety performance during the previous two years, and are based upon the total recordable case incidence rates as defined by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). There are three divisions of the award based on employee exposure hours. MATHESON received the award for Group 1Â - over five million employee exposure hours.
William J. Kroll, Executive Chairman of the Board of MATHESON and 2012 Chairman of the Board of the CGA, said "Safety is our highest priority and this award reflects the outstanding performance of all our employees. All of our teammates should be very proud of what we have accomplished and that all our hard work has been recognized."
Mike Tiller, President and CEO, CGA, stated "It is with great pleasure that we honor those member companies who are committed to a safer industry."
MATHESON is a single source for industrial, medical, specialty and electronic gases, gas handling equipment, high performance purification systems, engineering and gas management services, and on-site gas generation with a mission to deliver innovative solutions for global customer requirements. MATHESON is the largest subsidiary of the Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation Group, the largest Japanese supplier of industrial gases and one of the five largest suppliers of industrial, specialty, and electronics gases in the world.
Contacts:
Beth Sullivan, bsullivan@mathesongas.com, +1-215-648-4026
Christine Scully, cscully@mathesongas.com, +1-201-825-1331
