​Falck’s continued world class delivery of protection services have been recognised by The Chemical Industries Association as one of a small number of business that are shortlisted for the prestigious Service Provider of the Year for 2017.
As the organisation that represents the Chemical and Pharmaceutical sector throughout the UK, The Chemical Industries Association (CIA) is well placed to evaluate the capability of service providers to the industry.
Paul Frankland, Falck Fire Services Commercial Director commented “Falck is delighted to be recognised in this category of service provider of the year by the CIA, judged through delivering innovation and outstanding service excellence.
Every day, without fail, the Falck team keeps thousands of employees safe who work at over £14bn worth of key industrial assets across some of the UK’s largest high hazard petrochemical, energy & specialty industrial parks. Prevention and protection of people, assets and reputation is guaranteed through our highly-qualified, skilled and trusted Industrial Emergency Response teams.”
Currently operating across several large scale industrial manufacturing parks in the UK, Falck’s elite force is capable of tackling the most serious of incidents against the backdrop of highly complex and volatile environments. However, much of Falck’s work is preventation & preparedness which is achieved by working in partnership with clients to drive the most innovative and collaborative practices to mitigate against the unique dangers and characteristics presented within industry.
Robert Peasgood, Falck’s Managing Director added: “During Falck’s many years of operation, we have provided firm support to the continued contribution of our partners to UK GDP through maintaining business resilience and continuity of the production of energy & key manufacturing products in Teesside and throughout the UK. We are a significant contributor to the local economy and one of the largest employers within our industrial hub, therefore providing on-going sustainability of the local economy, society and environment.
Falck continues to innovate across all its business streams to enable us to meet the requirements of our multi-national clients whilst ensuing a consistency of approach to the key requirements of its robust set of emergency arrangements.”
Taking Teesside as a specific manufacturing hub, Falck drives a consistent approach to ensure these arrangements work with business that have corporate safe systems of work driven from Saudi Arabia, Korea, Singapore, USA, UK, China and France.
