Safety & Security 

It is our policy to protect the safety and health of our employees. Injury and illness losses from accidents are needless, costly and preventable.  Our company has established a Workplace Safety Program that will help us prevent injury and illness due to hazards.  Employee involvement at all levels of the company is critical for us to be successful in this effort.  To accomplish this task, a joint worker and management safety committee was established.  Its purpose is to bring workers and members of management together in a non-adversarial, cooperative effort to promote safety and health in the workplace.  Our safety committee assists the Companies in making recommendations for change.  We feel this is key in achieving continuous improvement in our safety processes.  Since its inception, we have seen a reduction in the number of workplace injuries and illnesses, a reduction in the hidden costs associated with workplace injuries and illness, and an increase in employee safety awareness in the workplace.  We have lessened associated production delays, time lost by workers and supervisors attending to an accident victim, clean-up and start-up of interrupted operations, costs related to conducting an accident investigation and time spent retraining others to replace injured workers.

In addition to our in house program, we have partnered with the Port of Philadelphia, the TSA and the US Coast Guard to implement the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program throughout the port. TWICs are tamper-resistant biometric credentials that are issued to workers who require unescorted access to secure areas of ports, vessels, outer continental shelf facilities and all credentialed merchant mariners. TWIC is a vital security measure that will ensure individuals who pose a threat do not gain unescorted access to secure areas of the nation's maritime transportation system. The Port of Philadelphia requires all port employees, truck drivers, longshoremen and other personnel with access to the secure port facilities possess an active TWIC card.