On 27 January 2020, Mrs. Arlene Chow, Chief Executive Officer, Heritage Petroleum Company Limited, signed the Safe to Work (STOW) Charter committing the company to utilise the STOW certification system to assess contractors’ health, safety and environmental (HSE) management systems. The company set a deadline date of 31 July 2020 for their contractors to be certified to the STOW HSE requirements if they wanted to continue to do business with the company.
Also present at the signing which took place at Heritage’s Port of Spain office were Dr. Thackwray Driver, President & CEO of the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago and Mr. Fitzroy Harewood, Chairman of the STOW Implementation Board and President of Pt. Lisas Nitrogen Limited.
STOW is a certification programme for contractors’ HSE Management Systems and is a minimum requirement for prequalifying contracting companies that wish to provide services to any of the operating companies in Trinidad & Tobago that are signatories to the STOW Charter. The programme is governed by the STOW Implementation Board and administered on a day-to-day basis by the STOW Project Office of the Energy Chamber of Trinidad & Tobago.
Since the certification of the first company in 2010, 660 companies have achieved STOW Certification. For more information on STOW, please visit the STOW website at www.stowtt.info or contact the STOW Project Office at 636 – 3749 Ext. 27, 31 or 32.