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Cleveland Fire Brigade Risk Management in Royal Vopak contract win

Cleveland Fire Brigade’s fast-growing risk management company has begun 2015 with a £2 million turnover figure in its sights and its latest contract win underway at Vopak’s Teesside Terminal.

The three year contract with Royal Vopak, specialists in the storage and handling of oil products, liquid chemicals and gases, will provide round-the-clock emergency support at Seal Sands, where CFB Risk Management already works with Ineos Nitriles.

Vopak will have 24/7 emergency response and crisis management support, incident command and control training and exercising and a stand-by emergency control centre (ECC) in the event of a major incident.

A recent investment of £100k in a state-of-the-art Incident Command & Crisis Management Training Facility has boosted interest in the company’s services.

It includes the world’s first integrated Training & Exercise System and Open Days have already attracted attention and positive feedback from a considerable number of blue chip companies and industry leaders.

CRB Risk Management now has one of the largest workforces in the UK with the skills and competence to work in high hazard situations. It employs more than 30 full-time staff plus 150 part-time skilled support staff and has a bank of 500 more who are available when needed.

Contracts are in place with major blue-chip companies in the oil and gas, nuclear and petrochemical sectors across the UK and a number of significant developments in the Middle East and Europe are at an advanced stage.

The range of specialist services it provides to help high hazard industries protect personnel, assets and avoid costly disruption to production includes fire safety management, emergency planning, fire engineering, emergency response and training and exercising.

All CFB Risk Management profits go into community projects that improve safety for thousands of families in the Tees area.

Technical Director at CFB Risk Management, Gary Cawley, said: “This latest contract is one of many that we have secured since we started in 2011 and will contribute to an expected £2 million turnover figure in this financial year.

“Our continuing success shows that our expertise and experience of working in an area with such a concentration of high hazard industries is being increasingly recognised and valued.

“We are confident that 2015 will bring us further contracts across the UK, in Europe and the Middle East as well as regionally.”

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