Tristar Group's UAE operations won the prestigious Taqdeer Award in the 4-Star category. The award recognizes and rewards companies for excellence in labor relations including labor policies, facilities and infrastructure, health and safety, labor security, and recruitment and wages, among others. Tristar will receive incentives from Dubai Government as a 4-Star rated winner.
Tristar had won 3-Star award last year and the 4-Star award demonstrates the company’s belief in continuous improvement as well as in ensuring the happiness and wellness of its labor force to promote customer satisfaction. Winning the 4-Star award is also testimony to Tristar’s leadership’s vision and management towards creating the best-in-class environment for employees to excel and continue to position the company as a partner of choice.
Tristar Group CEO Eugene Mayne said: "Our employees are our pillars and we are committed to the welfare of our blue collar workers.… [...]
Tristar Group’s Head Office Workshop Team won the Commercial Vehicle Workshop of the Year 2022 Award at the Automechanika Dubai for the second consecutive year.
The award is given to the best workshop performing above the market averages, demonstrating best industry practice, a sustainable business model, efficiency, working to the highest quality standards, technical excellence and delivering high standards of customer care.
The Head Office Workshop and Business Excellence Teams presented in the award’s entry document the company’s robust preventive maintenance practices in line with OEM recommendations, workshop infrastructure, international best safety practices in the region, OHS compliance, quality, reliability, customer delight, emergency response/disaster recovery services, Go Green initiatives, trainings, wellness programs , etc.
Sujith Ravel (Workshop Manager shown in picture) and Stanley Lyall (Assistant Workshop Manager) received the award. They were accompanied by Khushnuma Hassan (Business Excellence).
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The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) expressed its confidence that the continuing ‘Safety at Sea’ initiative of Tristar will contribute greatly to safety at sea.
Shipping today transports more than 80 per cent of global trade, providing a reliable low-cost means of transporting goods globally, facilitating trade and helping prosperity among nations and people. According to the IMO, the Covid-19 pandemic and other difficulties facing the global shipping industry have brought tremendous hardships for seafarers.
“The IMO will continue to work tirelessly to deal with challenges related to maritime safety by means of a multi-pronged approach, including policy development, direct interventions by our Seafarer Crisis Action Team (SCAT), and interagency and industry partnerships. We will continue to work with governments, industry stakeholders and other international organisations to enhance maritime safety and security,” explained IMO Secretary General, Kitack Lim, in his opening remarks.
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The Maritime Standard recognized the continuing ‘Safety at Sea’ initiatives of Tristar by awarding the group’s Maritime Logistics division the Editor’s Choice. It said: “The Editor’s Choice Award this year goes to the Tristar Maritime Logistics in recognition of its commitment to improving safety at sea and the mental and physical well-being of seafarers by taking various measures including an annual conference for seafarers first launched in 2019. More than 100 maritime industry professionals and 4,000 seafarers attended the last Safety At Sea Conference through live streaming from all over the world. As a follow up to the conference, Tristar organises town hall-style/online Psychological First Aid (PFA) workshops for Vessel Masters and Senior Officers in Mumbai, where senior seafarers are trained and shown how to detect symptoms of mental distress. Tristar has also established a dedicated helpline that is handled by the Sailors’ Society of the UK which… [...]
Tristar Group CEO Eugene Mayne reiterated in a recent global business gathering in London that a great majority of CEOs have begun recognizing that Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) as well as Sustainability issues are now guiding corporate strategies of forward-looking companies
In his Keynote Address on Sustainability, on November 10 in London, at the 2022 Annual Global Convention on Corporate Governance and Sustainability organized by the Institute of Directors (IOD), India, Mayne also mentioned that aside from shareholders other stakeholders such as customers, partners, suppliers and the public at large are also crucial for long term prospects.
“Not so long ago, sustainability was a token item on Board agendas to balance the social and environmental price of profit. Today, it is – and should be – the top item because profit will not be possible without it. Business will not survive in a… [...]
Under the patronage and the attendance of the UAE Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure (MOEI), Tristar Group officially announced the agenda of its 4th annual ‘Safety at Sea’ conference with focus on improving the lives of seafarers at sea. The 4th edition will be held in Dubai on November 22, 2022 and will be attended by UAE government officials, prominent leaders of the regional maritime industry, and representatives from numerous maritime organizations, in addition to seafarers.
Senior officials H.E Eng. Hessa AlMalek, Advisor to the Minister for Maritime Transport Affairs at MOEI and Capt. Abduallah AlHayyas, Director of Maritime Transport Affairs at MOEI will be among the industry panellists who will deliberate proactive measures to improve working conditions and support for seafarers.
Experts from the shipping industry, shipbuilders, classification societies, academia, and law firms have also been lined up to further expound on this… [...]
Social responsibility was at the center of discussions during the first ever harm reduction event in the GCC region, “Harm Reduction: Time to Meet in the Middle”, which took place last week at the Conrad Hotel, Dubai, hosted by CNBC Arabia, in partnership with Philip Morris Management Services (Middle East) Limited, and Tristar Group .
The event, titled “Harm Reduction: Time to Meet in the Middle”, saw medical doctors and industry experts, gather together to address the importance of shared social responsibility and how facts and science together with compassion, curiosity, consistency and sustainability play a unified role in raising awareness on the importance of harm reduction, on a regional and global scale.
Three insightful panel discussions explored the concept of harm reduction, how it is applied in real life scenarios, and how advances in technology and science are making harm reduction a possibility.… [...]
Under the patronage of the UAE Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, Tristar Group will host its 4th annual ‘Safety at Sea’ conference in Dubai on November 22, 2022. The event will be attended by senior government officials, prominent leaders of the regional maritime industry, and representatives from numerous maritime organizations, in addition to seafarers.
The conference launched by the Maritime Logistics division of Tristar will continue to draw industry and global attention to the importance of the well-being of workers at sea such as their physical and mental health. The inaugural conference was held in Dubai on November 10, 2019, and was attended by more than 150 decision-makers and senior officials from the maritime industry and watched remotely by over 500 seafarers.
Tristar Group was awarded for the second consecutive year as 1st runner-up in the Large Business Category of the Arabia CSR Awards 2022 held last night. One objective of the Arabia CSR Awards is to recognize and honor organizations in the Arab Region that demonstrate outstanding leadership and commitment to Corporate Sustainability.
Group Chief Administrative Officer Balaji Nagabhushan (right), Senior Manager Corporate Communications Arthur Los Banos (left) and CSR and Sustainability Officer Racheal Xavier (middle) received the trophy and certificate from H.E. Engineer, Sheikh Salem Bin Sultan Bin Saqr Al-Qasimi, Chairman of the Ras Al Khaimah Civil Aviation Department (2nd from right) and Mrs. Habiba Al-Mar’ashi, President and CEO, Arabia CSR Network.
Tristar had previously won several times under the Partnerships and Collaborations Category for its road safety awareness campaign in the UAE and its ‘Safety at Sea’ initiatives drawing maritime industry and global… [...]
In celebration of the annual ‘World Heart Day’, Tristar’s head office-based staff attended a hybrid session with Dr. Ravinder Bhatt who explained about the functions of the heart and the many cardiovascular diseases related with it. He urged the participants to exercise at least 30 minutes or walk 10,000 steps per day to be healthy. This year’s theme is ‘Use Heart for Every Heart’, that indicates having a heart for humanity, nature and yourself.