Outstanding RUC certification results for Industrias Ectricol S.A.S.

The RUC is an informational system operated by theCONSEJO COLOMBIANO DE SEGURIDAD (Colombian Safety Council) where the results regarding contractors' MANAGEMENT of the hydrocarbons sector in industrial safety, occupational health and the environment are compiled.

Industrias Ectricol S.A.S. is one of the few companies in Colombia that has obtained a RUC qualification with a 95% result during its first audit; this result is mostly obtained by companies that have been growing in their management system for three to four years.

Within the hydrocarbon sector, requirements for this regulation are at least 85%. Therefore, Ectricol Industries not only complied with the minimum requirements, but also surpassed them.

With this certification Ectricol achieves a growth opportunity within the hydrocarbon sector, guaranteeing customer compliance in legal, safety and environmental issues and therefore ensuring quality and responsibility in each and every task performed.

Benefits

• To promote in the hydrocarbons sector the implementation ofperformance standards required to achieve the effectiveness and quality of the operations developed.
• Centralize the performance information of contractor firms.
• Equal conditions for contractors in the fulfillment of the requirements in terms of industrial safety, occupational health and the environment before the operators that carry out licitation processes.
• Evaluation of management, survival and growth within the market.
• Fulfillment of statutory requirements.
• Annual evaluation visit.
• Performance report on industrial safety, occupational health and the environment.