AUSTIN, Texas – Brand Services, Inc. recently won six safety awards at the recent National Petrochemical & Refiners Association Safety Awards banquet and ceremony in Austin, Texas. The ceremony recognized companies that excel at assuring a safe work environment at NPRA member job sites. Brand received Meritorious Safety Performance awards for working without a recordable incident in the following refineries during 2000: Brand – New Orleans: Alliance Refinery of Tosco Refining Company (96,913 hours worked). Brand – Baton Rouge: Baton Rouge Refinery of ExxonMobil (225,436 hours worked). Brand – Baton Rouge: Convent Refinery of Motiva Enterprises LLC (44,378 hours worked). Brand – Corpus Christi, Texas: Corpus Christi Refinery of CITGO Petroleum Corporation (38,750 hours worked). Brand – Long Beach, Calif.: Los Angeles Refining Company of Equilon Enterprises LLC (65,092 hours worked). Brand – Nederland, Texas: Port Arthur Refinery of Motiva Enterprises LLC (169,295 hours worked). Brand was the only scaffolding company to receive a Contractor Award for Meritorious Safety Performance for 2000, and one of only several contractors to win six or more such awards. The Contractor Award for Meritorious Safety Performance recognizes those contractors working a minimum of 20,000 hours per calendar year at a regular NPRA member facility who have achieved a total recordable incidence rate of 1.5 or less with no workplace-related fatality during 2000. The NPRA Safety awards are part of a comprehensive safety awards program which the Association’s Fire and Accident Prevention Committee developed to promote accident prevention in the petroleum refining, petrochemical manufacturing and contracting industries and to publicly recognize the excellent safety record for these industries and contractors. Brand Services is the largest provider of scaffolding services to the North American market. The company, headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., operates 39 business units throughout the United States and Canada. Revenues during 2000 were $264 million.