Quality, Safety, Environmental

SAFETY

The Great Lakes Group places the high­est pri­or­i­ty on indi­vid­ual safe­ty, pre­ven­tion of pol­lu­tion, and cus­tomer sat­is­fac­tion in all phas­es of our oper­a­tions.  Because of our desire to pro­vide you with the best ser­vice pos­si­ble while ensur­ing the safe­ty of employ­ees and the pro­tec­tion of the envi­ron­ment, The Great Lakes Group has imple­ment­ed thor­ough envi­ron­men­tal, safe­ty, and qual­i­ty assur­ance sys­tems.  The Great Lakes Group oper­ates its fleet and its facil­i­ties under poli­cies and pro­ce­dures that meet or exceed gov­ern­men­tal regulations.

ENVIRONMENTAL

The Great Lakes Group and its affil­i­at­ed com­pa­nies are com­mit­ted to poli­cies and pro­ce­dures that sup­port a sus­tain­able environment.

Com­pa­ny head­quar­ters, ship­yard facil­i­ties, and equip­ment incor­po­rate many sus­tain­able design ele­ments and con­struc­tion prac­tices that sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce the neg­a­tive impact of indus­try on the envi­ron­ment through the incor­po­ra­tion of “GREEN” tech­nol­o­gy in their designs. The host of “GREEN” ini­tia­tives include a strin­gent Storm Water Pol­lu­tion Pre­ven­tion Plan; bulk­head­ing; a new san­i­tary sys­tem; rapid­ly deploy­able water­front con­tain­ment sys­tems; a bio-reten­tion basin and fil­tra­tion sys­tem for remov­ing sed­i­ments in water run-off which replen­ish­es the under­ground aquifer; use of recy­cled and recy­clable mate­ri­als; con­struc­tion waste man­age­ment; indoor air qual­i­ty man­age­ment; day­light­ing and tint­ed glass; pho­to light sen­sors to con­serve ener­gy; sil­ver roof­ing for reflec­tiv­i­ty; and sub­stan­tial landscaping.

Mind­ful of post‑9/11 home­land secu­ri­ty require­ments and being co-locat­ed with the City of Cleveland’s Gar­rett A. Mor­gan Water Plant, the facil­i­ties incor­po­rate dock and prop­er­ty out­door light­ing, secu­ri­ty fenc­ing, motion detec­tors, card swipes, remote cam­eras, and 24-hour mon­i­tor­ing that includes fire detec­tion and secu­ri­ty alarm systems.

Fur­ther, the Com­pa­ny makes it a focus to min­i­mize the envi­ron­men­tal impact of repair or new con­struc­tion projects through the use of advanced diesel engines and asso­ci­at­ed equip­ment which are specif­i­cal­ly designed to reduce air emis­sions and oth­er envi­ron­men­tal tox­ins.  Recy­clable mate­ri­als are also used in the con­struc­tion and pro­cure­ment process­es wher­ev­er possible.

Most recent­ly, The Tow­ing Com­pa­ny joined Green Marine, a vol­un­tary envi­ron­men­tal pro­gram for North America’s mar­itime indus­try. The Ship­yard has also enrolled, mak­ing it the first U.S. ship­yard to join the program.