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A Commitment to Responsible Care

GATX is proud to be certified as a partner in the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care Partnership Program.

In conjunction with GATX’s own Operational Excellence program, we focus on maintaining the highest environmental, health, safety and security and are dedicated to protecting the communities in which we operate. Our participation in the Partnership Program demonstrates our ongoing commitment to the chemical industry and aligns us with our key customers' Responsible Care initiatives.

 

In 1988, the U.S. chemical industry adopted the Responsible Care® Partnership Program, a voluntary initiative to improve environmental, health, safety and security performance. The Partnership Program is open to companies with direct and substantial involvement in the manufacture, use, formulation, distribution, transportation, storage, treatment-disposal and/or sales and marketing of chemicals. As the first U.S. rail leasing company to achieve certification as a Responsible Care Partner, GATX continues to manage operations with the highest priority to protecting the environment, our employees and the public.

 

Promoting Health and Safety
GATX remains committed to ensuring the health and safety for our employees and customers. Our Environment, Health and Safety Department measures three key areas to assure continued improvement:

 

  • Training
  • Incident rate
  • Worker's compensation losses

 

Over the past 13 years, GATX has significantly reduced its OSHA Recordable Incident Rate, powerful evidence of our desire keep health and safety our No. 1 priority.

GATX respects the environment and the communities where our facilities are located by setting an annual goal of no spills or unpermitted releases at its maintenance facilities, a goal achieved in 2009. GATX also embraces initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We have invested in equipment to significantly reduce emissions of volatile organic carbon compounds (VOCs) and hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) from coating operations.

 

Quality Assurance
GATX provides customers with superior technical support, quality and ontime delivery performance of railcar maintenance services at competitive prices. At GATX, Quality Assurance is defined as Operational Excellence, which sets measurable standards and underscores the GATX commitment to excellence in quality, safety, health, the environment and security by the prevention, early detection and disposition of non-conforming situations, materials, and railcars, and continuous improvements to our processes and products. GATX achieves these goals through business processes designed to meet or exceed our objectives for customer success, safety, quality, delivery and financial performance. Quality performance metrics have been developed, standardized and implemented to drive improvements in all areas:

 

  • Non-compliance cars
  • Rejected cars
  • Audit issue resolution
  • Cost of non-conformance
  • Opportunities for improvement