Company: CLH
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000822818-25-000007
Chunk: 132

Company: CLEAN HARBORS INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 132
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 their products, services, business models and investment. For a fifth consecutive year, Clean Harbors has been recognized as a top company for women in transportation by the Women in Trucking Association. We also take great pride in our work with the veteran community, and we are honored to have received recent accolades from Military.com, Military Times and VETS Indexes. 

While we are proud of our performance in third-party scoring and rankings as well as acknowledgement by outside entities, the focus of our program is on tangible improvements that positively impact the environment, our community and our employees. Our overall sustainability program expands our commitment beyond our services and products to include our operations, employees and community and focuses on the following key elements:

Comprehensive Focus on Safety

As noted above, safety is a core value and is foundational to our sustainability program. It is a hallmark of our Company and is embedded within programs and procedures to focus on delivering services with unparalleled safety to our 

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employees, our customers, local communities and all stakeholders. For example, our Company-wide Green Hat program identifies newly hired teammates by their green hats, signaling to more senior teammates to provide extra help, oversight or explanation. With this focus on safety, our low injury rates are among the best in our industry. In 2024, we achieved a TRIR of 0.65 and a Company-best DART of 0.27. Additionally, in 2024, seven of our U.S. sites have earned Star status within the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s Voluntary Protection Program ("VPP") for their safety management systems and low injury and illness rates, up from six sites in the prior year. To put this accomplishment in context, less than 0.1% of the eight million U.S. workplaces have earned this elite VPP recognition.

Operations/ Customer Solutions

Technology and operational improvements have allowed Clean Harbors to develop initiatives that minimize our and our customers’ environmental impact. As a leading provider of environmental and industrial services throughout North America, we help prevent the release of chemicals and hazardous waste streams into the environment and recover and decontaminate pollutants that have been released. This includes the safe destruction or disposal of hazardous materials to ensure these materials are no longer a danger to the environment. 

With a focus on delivering sustainable solutions to address emerging contaminants and pollutants, a comprehensive third-party study has demonstrated that the Company’s commercial incinerators can safely and thoroughly destroy PFAS in multiple forms. Specifically the study demonstrated that the use of high