Company: CLH
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000822818-25-000007
Chunk: 117

Company: CLEAN HARBORS INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 117
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 in which we work, live and drive. We will remain relentless in our pursuit to improve how we work through effective partnering and collaboration, as well as innovation and technological solutions which deliver on our safety promise to ourselves, our customers and our neighbors. It starts with us, and we live it 3-6-5. 

Compliance

We regard compliance with applicable regulations as a critical component of our overall operations and we maintain a compliance organization that is independent of the operations of the business to monitor and provide oversight throughout our organization. We strive to maintain strict professional standards in our compliance activities. Our compliance staff is responsible for the facilities’ permitting and regulatory compliance, compliance training, transportation compliance and related record keeping. To ensure the effectiveness of our regulatory compliance program, our facilities operations are monitored by our compliance staff and a compliance audit team who routinely conduct audits of our programs. 

Our facilities are also frequently inspected and audited by regulatory agencies, as well as by customers. Although our facilities have been cited on occasion for regulatory violations, we believe that each of our facilities is currently in substantial compliance with applicable permit requirements. 

Competitive Strengths

As noted above, Safety is our underlying core value and we believe our long standing commitment to safety is an important competitive strength and differentiator for Clean Harbors. We have attained leading positions across our business lines despite facing robust competition from local, regional and national firms. We believe the following are our core competitive strengths developed over more than 40 years of operations which have and will continue to facilitate our prominent position in the marketplace:

•Leading Provider of Environmental and Industrial Services - We are a leading provider of environmental and industrial services which deliver sustainable solutions that help our customers protect the environment. We operate ten commercial hazardous waste incinerators, including our newest incinerator in Kimball, Nebraska which commenced operations in late 2024. We are the largest operator of these high demand facilities in North America. We are also one of the few emergency response and industrial services companies with footprints across both the U.S. and Canada. Our highly trained workforce safely responds to customer needs across a variety of service lines, including emergency response services and plant turnarounds. We provide multi-faceted, high-quality services to a broad mix of customers and our vast capabilities, valuable and unique assets, skilled workforce, safety profile and breadth of services as well as our overall size, scale and geographic footprint help us attract customers and provide them with environmentally responsible solutions.

•Integrated Network of Assets - We believe, in the aggregate