CLEAN HARBORS ENVIROMENTAL SERVICES, INC.

Company Overview 

Clean Harbors is the leading provider in environmental, energy and industrial services throughout North America. The Company serves a diverse customer base across a broad range of vertical markets, which includes a majority of the Fortune 500 companies, numerous federal, state, provincial and local governmental agencies, and through its Safety-Kleen subsidiary, over 200,000 small and medium sized businesses.

Clean Harbors is organized into four business units: Technical Services, Industrial and Field Services, Safety-Kleen, and Oil and Gas Field Services. These individual business units are focused on specific customer segments, and offer an integrated platform of services to meet the specific needs of each individual vertical market.

Clean Harbors Technical Services provide a broad range of hazardous material management and disposal services including the collection, packaging, transportation, recycling, treatment and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste.

Clean Harbors Industrial and Field Services provide industrial and specialty services, such as high-pressure and chemical cleaning, catalyst handling, decoking, material processing and industrial lodging services to refineries, chemical plants, pulp and paper mills, and other industrial facilities. Field Services provide a wide variety of environmental cleanup services on customer sites or other locations on a scheduled or emergency response basis. 

Clean Harbors' Safety-Kleen subsidiary is a leading North American used oil recycling and re-refining, parts washers and environmental solutions company for small quantity waste generators supported by the largest re-refining capabilities to convert used oil into base and blended lube oils. Safety-Kleen provides a broad set of environmentally-responsible products and services that keep businesses in balance with the environment.

Clean Harbors Oil & Gas Field Services provide exploration, surface rentals, solids control, and environmental services to the energy sector serving oil and gas exploration, production, and power generation.

Headquartered in Norwell, Massachusetts, Clean Harbors maintains an industry leading portfolio of waste disposal and solvent recycling facilities and service locations throughout the United States and Canada, as well as Mexico and Puerto Rico.

Clean Harbors has been a trusted source for environmental, energy and industrial services since 1980. Because of Clean Harbors' commitment to health and safety, and quality conscious philosophy, unique expertise and capabilities, and reputation for keeping our customers’ needs first, customers perceive us as the leader in the environmental services industry.  We are committed to providing our customers with the highest quality environmental services and to preserving our natural environment.

Clean Harbors understands your requirements to maintain full compliance with all regulations, minimize liability, and reduce waste and emissions. Our services and infrastructure encompass the widest range and provide our customers with one source for solving their environmental, energy and industrial service needs. 

• Waste Disposal & Recycling
• Emergency Response
• Chemical Packing
• Field Services
• Industrial Services
• Production Services
• Exploration Services
• Directional Boring
• Lodging Services
• InSite Services

Clean Harbors provides comprehensive environmental services to industries of all types. Since 1980, Clean Harbors has taken the lead in identifying the most efficient and, sound options for environmental management.  With a focus on health and safety and liability minimization, Clean Harbors is an innovative leader, committed to the needs of industries and preserving our natural environment.

We understand your regulatory, operating, and cost management challenges and can help you manage your environmental needs so you can focus on your core business.

Health & Safety is Clean Harbors' #1 priority - companywide. Employees at all levels of the company share this philosophy and are committed to take ownership in being safe and thinking safety at all times. Our commitment to health and safety benefits everyone—our employees, our customers, the community, and the environment.

In order to protect our employees, continue to lower our incident rates, and satisfy our customers’ demands to retain the best service providers with the lowest TRIR, DART and EMR rates, Clean Harbors continuously improves on our health and safety excellence. SafetyFirst!, a companywide comprehensive program, is one example of our efforts to meet these requirements.

SafetyFirst! is not a top-down management program; rather, it’s a program that starts with our employees. All employees recognize the importance of protecting themselves, their fellow employees, our customers, and all those around them from harm. We demonstrate through our words and actions that we will reinforce acceptable safety practices and stop unsafe acts before they become a statistic. SafetyFirst! is not just a slogan—it’s our commitment to keep the protection of our fellow workers in the forefront of everything we do.

Our Safety Starts with Me: Live It 3-6-5 initiative further enhances our safety culture by fostering goodwill and driving home the importance of safety in our company all year long. The name says it all–365 days a year, we all need to work safe and be safe, whether we are at Clean Harbors, at a customer site, in transit, or at home. It’s a safety lifestyle.

Injuries are not acceptable and all members of our organization work to prevent them. Bringing our employees into the development and training processes brings ownership. Employees know that creating an injury-free environment is within their control and will lead to our desired safety outcome.

Our solid safety practices also have a domino effect. Employees feel more confident in a safe environment. Morale gets a boost, productivity increases, and we can focus on serving our customers. Customers benefit from a safer work environment and reduced costs.

3 Safety Philosophies

The three in 3-6-5 is for our three fundamental safety philosophies.

1. Nothing is worth getting injured over.
2. All near misses and accidents are preventable.
3. Safety must be actively managed.

6 Golden Rules of Safety

The six in 3-6-5 stands for the six golden rules of safety at Clean Harbors.

1. I will drive responsibly without distractions or impairments.
2. I will think before I start and know my safety plan every day.
3. I will only undertake the work in which I am trained.
4. I will take responsibility for my safety and those around me at work, home or in-transit.
5. I will intervene in any unsafe act.
6. I will report all incidents and near misses.

5 Good Reasons Why I want to be Safe

The five in 3-6-5 stands for personal reasons why employees want to be safe. Employees are mindful of what’s important in their lives. Whether it’s family, colleagues, friends, customers, or any other significant reason, we all have reasons and motivations to remain safe.

Continually improving safety at Clean Harbors is our commitment. We believe that zero incidents is a goal we can achieve and that no one should get hurt while working at Clean Harbors.  For everyone at Clean Harbors, it’s SafetyFirst! and We’re living it 3-6-5.

Clean Harbors Continues with Low Incident Rates

All recordable injuries, whether they occur in the U.S., Canada or Puerto Rico, are included in Clean Harbors' injury and illness rate calculations. TRIR and DART are two of the primary health and safety statistical measures defined by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and we track our performance in these two areas continuously. As a safety conscious company, the trend in achieving excellent health and safety results throughout the company sets us apart from other environmental services companies. The numerous safety related programs that Clean Harbors has in place also contribute to our overall Health & Safety performance.