Safety, Health & Environment
Ensuring the health and safety of our employees, our customers and the public is a core value of HLE. We uphold this value in the same way that we ensure the quality of our work – by implementing rigorous controls through every phase of our projects.
Training and focus on leading indicators are the keys to preventing accidents and incidents. Our employees receive extensive training on how to perform their jobs safely, properly and in compliance with environmental regulations.
Safety benefits our client.
We make safety a core value because it is the right thing to do. But we also know that our health, safety and environmental program benefits our customers. It:
- Reduces costs – Our commitment reduces our customers’ labor costs and the expenses of supervising and auditing their contractor’s safety practices.
- Lessens risk – Safer work practices lessen the probability of an incident occurring at the customer’s facility and the potential for liability.
- Minimizes impacts – Our team can respond quickly in the event of a natural disaster, operational upset or unlikely construction event. Their knowledge and preparedness is key to minimizing the impact of an incident.
- Improves compliance – Our rigorous safety process helps customers comply with OSHA’s Process Safety Management standards and other compliance standards.
- Ensures peace of mind – Our customers can be confident that they have a capable, safety-focused contractor with well-trained and committed personnel on the job.
Safety is the responsibility of every employee at HLE, and zero incidents is our foremost goal. In all islands of Hawaii, our trained personnel work to ensure the safety of themselves, their coworkers, the customer and the public.
Commitment to Sustainability
HLE is committed to business practices, operations and projects that improve economic, environmental and societal outcomes. Our comprehensive skills and expertise are a valued resource to clients here in Hawaii, in support of their sustainability objectives. Internally, HLE’s sustainability practices are being continuously enhanced to help minimize the Company’s environmental footprint, reduce costs and enrich the work experience of our employees.
Environmental protection is part of HLE.
HLE is committed to operating our jobsites and facilities in an environmentally responsible manner. This commitment is demonstrated through our environmental management program, innovative solutions for reducing air emissions and our technologies for producing cleaner fuels.
We believe environmental responsibility goes beyond regulatory compliance; it is an integral part of our corporate citizenship. Our ability to deliver projects islandwide has been a keystone of our success, and we are an important constituent of the many communities where we work. Our goal is to design and deliver projects that benefit these communities while protecting their natural resources.
Solutions for cleaner air and power.
We’ve participated in numerous projects aimed at meeting the Hawaii’s growing green energy demand while minimizing harm to the environment. We’ve designed components that reduce air emissions; power plants that use cleaner-burning, more efficient sources of fuel; storage tanks that incorporate patented emissions-control features; and platforms for harvesting wind energy. We’ve developed systems that provide clean drinking water for communities and effectively treat wastewater for safe disposal. Every day, we are working on new technologies and solutions that can help our customers prevent or reduce pollution.