Foster Wheeler's Outstanding Safety Record Recognized by Singapore Award.Business Editors HAMILTON Hamilton, city, Bermuda Hamilton, city (1990 est. pop. 3,100), capital of Bermuda, on Bermuda Island. It is a port at the head of Great Sound, a huge lagoon and deepwater harbor protected by coral reefs. , Bermuda--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 2002 Foster Wheeler Ltd. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : FWC FWC Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (Florida) FWC Foster Wheeler Corporation (Clinton, NJ) FWC Family Winemakers of California FWC Fresh Water Cooling FWC Flight Warning Computer ) today announced that, based on work executed by several of its subsidiary companies in Singapore Singapore (sĭng`gəpôr, sĭng`ə–, sĭng'gəpôr`), officially Republic of Singapore, republic (2005 est. pop. 4,426,000), 240 sq mi (625 sq km). , it has received the Singapore Ministry of Manpower's (MOM) Occupational Safety & Health (OSH) Excellence Award. Foster Wheeler is the first engineering and construction contractor contractor n. 1) a person or entity that enters into a contract. 2) commonly, a person or entity that agrees to construct a building or to provide or install specialized portions of the construction. in Singapore to receive this Annual Safety Performance Award, which is given to companies that have achieved the gold award standard for three or more years consecutively. Foster Wheeler received three consecutive gold awards (2000-2002) for its safety performance at the Merck Merck may refer to:
Earlier this year, Foster Wheeler received three MOM awards for its outstanding safety record at two other pharmaceutical project sites - Schering-Plough Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP) is a pharmaceutical company which traces its history back to 1851 when Ernst Schering founded Schering AG in Germany. Following the entry of the United States into World War II in 1941, U.S. Multi-Product Plant (gold) and GlaxoSmithKline GlaxoSmithKline plc (LSE: GSK NYSE: GSK) is a British based pharmaceutical, biological, and healthcare company. GSK is a research-based company with a wide portfolio of pharmaceutical products covering anti-infectives, central nervous system (CNS), respiratory, Production Building 3 (silver) - as well as a refinery project site, ExxonMobil Exxon Mobil Corporation or ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), a multi-national American corporation and a direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil company[2] Singapore Integrated Pipeline (silver). These awards build on Foster Wheeler's already impressive record in Singapore. On eight pharmaceutical projects alone (four completed), the company has won a total of one OSH Excellence, four gold and two silver MOM awards and to date has achieved over 15 million man-hours without a lost-time incident. These projects have included grassroots Adj. 1. grassroots - fundamental; "the grassroots factor in making the decision" basic - pertaining to or constituting a base or basis; "a basic fact"; "the basic ingredients"; "basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities" 2. active pharmaceutical ingredient
An ingredient is something that forms part of a mixture (in a general sense). plants, as well as facilities for research and development, small-scale small-scale adj. 1. Limited in scope or extent; modest: a small-scale plan. 2. Created on a small scale: development, and secondary manufacturing. In addition, Foster Wheeler has managed more than 22 million construction man-hours in executing Singapore refinery and chemical projects, achieving an additional two gold and three silver MOM awards in past years.
Notes to Editors:
1. Foster Wheeler Ltd. is a global company offering, through its
subsidiaries, a broad range of design, engineering, construction,
manufacturing, project development and management, research, plant
operation and environmental services. The corporation is based in
Hamilton, Bermuda, and its operational headquarters are in
Clinton, N.J. For more information about Foster Wheeler, visit our
Web site at www.fwc.com.
2. To date, Foster Wheeler has been presented with 12 awards from the
Singapore Ministry of Manpower. This recognition of Foster
Wheeler's commitment and dedication to safety is as follows:
Award Project Year
OSH Excellence Merck Sharp & Dohme 2002
Gold Schering Plough MPP 2002
Gold Schering Plough MPP 2001
Gold ExxonMobil SPA 2001
Gold Merck Sharp & Dohme 2001
Gold Pulau Sakra 2000
Gold Merck Sharp & Dohme 2000
Silver GlaxoSmithKline PB3 2002
Silver ExxonMobil SIP 2002
Silver ExxonMobil SPA 2000
Silver ExxonMobil SCC RIF 2000
Silver Merck Sharp & Dohme 1999
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This news release contains forward-looking statements that are
based on management's assumptions, expectations and projections
about the various industries within which the corporation
operates. Such forward-looking statements by their nature involve
a degree of risk and uncertainty. The corporation cautions that a
variety of factors, including but not limited to the following,
could cause business conditions and results to differ materially
from what is contained in forward-looking statements: changes in
the rate of economic growth in the United States and other major
international economies, changes in investment by the energy,
power and environmental industries, changes in regulatory
environment, changes in project schedules, changes in trade,
monetary and fiscal policies worldwide, currency fluctuations,
outcomes of pending and future litigation, protection and validity
of patents and other intellectual property rights, and increasing
competition by foreign and domestic companies.
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