A-SAFE, the global leader in industrial workplace safety solutions, has been awarded the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise for the third time.
The Yorkshire-based business, which designs and manufactures the most advanced and innovative industrial safety products in the world, has earned the Queen’s Award for International Trade in recognition of its continuous record of exporting safety products to a multitude of international clients and market sectors.
The company is the first British manufacturer in its sector to win this highly sought-after accolade for the third consecutive time, having previously won the award in both 2014 and 2018.
A revolutionary contributor to advanced workplace safety and protection, A-SAFE’s solutions help their customers create the safest workplace environments, enabling businesses’ worldwide to better protect their employees, reduce accidents and operational downtime, and save people’s lives.
The company invented and manufactured the world’s first industrial strength polymer safety barrier system, which is now a stalwart solution across the industrial, warehousing and distribution, logistics, automotive and aviation sectors. The barrier can flex to absorb impact force and then reform to its original shape.
A-SAFE’s continued recognition from the Queen’s Award serves as testament to the business’s longstanding commitment to research and development. At its world-leading facilities in Yorkshire, A-SAFE brings together globally-renowned industry experts and millions of pounds of custom-built machinery, resulting in products that deliver superior quality and maximum safety.
James Smith, co-owner and co-director at A-SAFE, said: “It’s a great honour for A-Safe to be recognised with our third Queen’s Award for International Trade. This is an important milestone for the company. We are a proud British manufacturer with a truly international customer base, so this award goes a long way to acknowledge the commitment our business has made to promote safer working practices across the globe, as well as the hard work and dedication of the A-Safe team.
“A-SAFE is committed to a ‘Global and Local’ export strategy, which sees us establish wholly-owned subsidiaries around the world to give international brands access to A-SAFE products via local suppliers. So far, our network spans 17 subsidiaries in Europe, America, the Middle East and Australia, all bolstered by 39 trusted distributors internationally. As a British business with a global outlook, it is gratifying to see this strategy recognised at the highest level.”
To find out more about the complete range of A-SAFE’s industrial workplace safety solutions, visit www.asafe.com.
