Kennicon Engineering Ltd

6 Business View Caribbean your company into something that you could market. ISO is a system where it depends on you. You have to control it. You have to develop it. How you use it is up to you. We used it very wisely and we’ve developed the company in such a way that, after three or four years, we established our self in the market as the company that produces a quality product on a timely basis.” As time went on, KEL’s reputation flourished as it became the recipient of several industry awards. In 1999, it received the Prime Minister’s Competitive- ness Award for Services, and the Prime Minister’s Award for Quality in Construction Materials. In 2000, it was recognized by the South Trinidad Chamber of Industry and Commerce, through the Robert Montano Award for Excellence in Services. In 2005, KEL was awarded the Business Development Company Limited (BDC) and Republic Bank Limited Award for Excellence in Business, and in 2013, it got the Corporate Social Responsibility Award from the South Chamber. Mo- hamed reports that all of these awards were reported in the local press, affording the company some very positive, as well as free, advertising. An additional certification for KEL came by way of the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago’s STOW, or Safe TO Work, program. STOW certifies that a company in the energy sector governs its business according to industry best practices. This gives the major upstream and downstream operating companies confidence that the inherent risk to the health and safety of workers in the industry will be effectively managed. The greatest and most obvious benefit that STOW brings is provid- ing an HSE net to our greatest asset, our workforce.