Custer Crawford Launches Crawford Industrial Services, LLC.

Posted on 10 March 2015.

Houston, TX, Mar 8, 2015 – Crawford Industrial Services (CIS), LLC opened the doors on Jan 5th,

2015 in Santa Fe, Texas. Custer Crawford, President / CEO

Crawford Industrial Services, LLC, A premier class turnaround and consultant company focused on

highly specialized turnarounds, revamps, scheduled repairs, and emergency repairs for Fluid

Catalytic Cracking Units (FCCUs), Delayed Coker Units (DCUs), Specialty Welding Services &

ASME Code Welding including continued maintenance contracts. CIS supports the Chemical and

Refinery Businesses in the Gulf coast region of the United States.

CIS, LLC assists owners, operators, and engineering firms better execute turnaround and revamp

and process unit upgrades.

Crawford Industrial Services, LLC has a reputation for safe practices that precedes us on every job.

Crawford Industrial Services, LLC has a commitment to safety and is well known throughout the

industries we serve. Crawford went on to explain “

“While each refinery, petrochemical and chemical plant is different in personality, design, processes,

capacity and end product production, they all have a great deal in common. Our experience at

different refineries in the gulf coast has allowed us to use the knowledge gained and apply it to other

plants as well. This applied knowledge helps the industry as a whole and has given us, Crawford

Industrial Services, LLC. a reputation as the ‘go-to guys’ especially when it comes to FCCU and

Coker turnarounds.”

Custer Crawford is no stranger to successfully completing turnarounds safely. Under his leadership

their team’s most impressive achievement was set in mid-April of 2011 when 1,200 craft employees

completed 1,317,269 work hours with Zero Bureau of Labor Statistics/OSHA Recordable Injuries

over a 90 day turnaround. This is equivalent to 500 workers going one year with no recordable

injuries! Achieving that milestone was no accident either. The achievement began with pre-

mobilization preparation — a four-to-five-day process that includes background screening,

respiratory and medical evaluations, substance screening and hair follicle testing. Next was intensive

safety training that exceeded 16 hours per person and includes computer-based training (CBT)

conducted at the Safety Council of Texas City (SCTC). Zero Injury Safety Leadership Principals

were delivered via classroom and CBT training modules for crafts, foremen, superintendents, project

managers and safety specialists. The modules explain the roles and responsibilities each individual

fulfills in a culture to avoid at-risk behavior where zero injury is the daily outcome.

That record that was set in the most dangerous refinery in the country; the Former BP Texas City

plant that was rocked by an explosion that took 15 lives in 2005.

When asked what separates his company from the rest of the turnaround companies Mr. Crawford

stated, “We instill safety as a value with our employees and get them to make sure that they

understand first of all that we want them to work safe and then we have to give them the tools to

work safe, make them part of the big picture, and have them buy in to the plan and that’s the

success in working a safe project.”

Part of the winning formula for his team is how they hire employees. In the business today there are

different training assessments, NCCER and ABC. As a company, they don’t do the actual craft

training but they do assessments to see what level that the craft people are. They orchestrate getting

them into NCCER or ABC craft training programs; any of the avenues out there to get them craft

certified. Mr. Crawford went on to explain, “As a company, safety is a value that we put out front of

what we do and that our people are craft trained. The supervisors… to start with they are

supervisors, they are trained and understand safety as a value and that is passed down through our

ranks and we have safety meetings daily to reinforce the value. We have different avenues of getting

that across and keeping that message out in front of them.”

To find out how Crawford Industrial Services, LLC can help in an outage, contact Custer Crawford at

www.crawfordindustrialservices.com or email custercrawford@crawfordindustrialservices.com.