Tristar Group CEO Eugene Mayne urged regional shipowners to address and tackle the mental health issues facing seafarers at the inaugural Tristar ‘Safety at Sea’ conference. Mr. Mayne highlighted the importance of managing the emotional wellbeing of crew at sea when he addressed over 150 attendees at the One&Only Royal Mirage Hotel in Dubai. He also shared the findings of the P&I Club that the rate of suicide amongst seafarers has more than tripled since 2014. He further highlighted the report from the Sailors’ Society that 26% of seafarers show signs of depression. “Nearly half of them said they had not asked anybody for help,” Mr. Mayne added.
Tristar Group CEO Eugene Mayne shared the company’s international best practices on road safety at the RoSPA Health and Safety Excellence Forum held at the Waldorf Astoria Financial Centre Dubai. Tristar is a 10-time RoSPA Gold Award winner for always achieving a very high level of performance in health and safety management systems and culture. Tristar has partnered with RoSPA in its Road Safety Awareness campaigns since 2014 in the UAE, Oman and recently in Saudi Arabia.
Tristar Group is pleased to announce its membership of the Middle East Gases Association (MEGA) of which it will be the very first Category 4 member. Tristar will actively participate in three of MEGA’s working groups, namely, Transport, Safety and Environment. Eugene Mayne, founder and Group CEO, said: “We are delighted to have been admitted as a member of MEGA, and we look forward to collaborating with other businesses in the industry to improve technical standards and safety practices. We are committed to managing our business to the highest health, safety, environmental and compliance standards and relish the opportunity to work with other knowledgeable businesses in this space.”
Mr. Eugene Mayne has maintained his no. 13 ranking in the latest Logistics Middle East Magazine Power List. A total of 50 individuals have been recognized as the most influential executives in GCC logistics. According to the magazine’s editor, the executives were ranked ‘not just according to the size of the company they manage, but according to the influence they have over the regional logistics puzzle’. This is the seventh consecutive year Mr. Mayne has been in the list, ranking no. 22 in 2013.
The Tristar Annual Blood Donation was celebrated in the UAE and Mali on August 19 coinciding with World Humanitarian Day. Staff of both countries donated blood at the Tristar Head Office in Dubai and at the Golden Life Hospital in Bamako, Mali; while staff at the Eldoret operations of Tristar Kenya visited the Holy Family Children’s Home and Dispensary in Eldoret and distributed gift items in commemoration of World Humanitarian Day.
The Tristar Group based in the UAE and the Stevens Group based in the Netherlands have launched the Tristar Hazmat FZCO in the Jebel Al Free Zone which will provide logistics and supply chain management of hazardous goods and substances throughout the Middle East. The joint venture brings together the diverse footprint and established network of Tristar in the logistics and supply chain management across the Middle East providing Stevens with a unique opportunity to deploy its niche products and services across the industry.
Tristar Group Chief Administrative Officer Balaji Nagabhushan (middle) received the “Golden Peacock Occupational Health & Safety Award” for the year 2019 at the recent Institute Of Directors (IOD), India’s “21st annual World Congress on ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT and CLIMATE CHANGE” and Golden Peacock Awards Presentation Ceremony held at JW Marriott Hotel, Bengaluru. Tristar was recognized for its Occupational Health and Safety Management systems in the organization such as the empowerment of all staff with the ‘Stop Work Authority’ card, NMPI reporting system, Quarterly Safety Meeting, and recently with the institution of the APEX HSEQ and Sustainability Committee
Tristar Group received another RoSPA Gold Award for having ‘achieved a very high level of performance, demonstrating well developed occupational health and safety management systems and culture, outstanding control of risk and very low levels of error, harm and loss’ in 2018. Tristar Group GM for Road Transport and Warehousing Shivananda Baikady attended the awarding ceremony held at the ExCeL in London, UK.
Tristar Group CEO Eugene Mayne launched the 7th consecutive Tristar Sustainability Report with a commitment to further support the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). He handed the first copy of the report entitled ‘Empowering the Next Generation for Sustainable Development’ to Emirates Environmental Group Chairperson Habiba Al Marashi in a town hall meeting at the Tristar head office in Jebel Ali where the company celebrated World Environment Day. With them are the women staff of Tristar. Mrs. Al Marashi commended Tristar for being a homegrown responsible business: “I was here at the launch of the 1st edition of the sustainability report and I am delighted to be launching the 7th edition of the sustainability report of our corporate member – Tristar, a company that has truly embraced the concept of ‘responsible business’. I am sure Tristar will continue to be committed to reporting on its initiatives leading... [...]
Tristar celebrated the International Labor Organization’s World Day for Safety and Health at Work (April 28) and the UN Road Safety Week (May 6 to 12) on May 2 when it rolled out the group’s 2019 safety theme: ‘Safety is an obligation that cannot be achieved on a fix it tomorrow attitude’. In the UAE, a town hall was held with several customers attending where three external stakeholders shared their best road safety practices. A firefighting simulator was set up outside the Tristar head office building in Jebel Ali where employees and guests had an actual firefighting experienced. A number of operations from the UAE and global network also conducted their own activity.