Clean Harbors, Inc. (NYSE:CLH) Q1 2022 Earnings Conference Call April 4, 2022 9:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Michael McDonald - General Counsel

Alan McKim - Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

Michael Battles - EVP and Chief Financial Officer

Eric Gerstenberg - President and Chief Operating Officer

Jim Buckley - SVP of Investor Relations

Conference Call Participants

David Manthey - Baird

Adam Bubes - Goldman Sachs

Tyler Brown - Raymond James

Jim Ricchiuti - Needham

Michael Hoffman - Stifel

Noah Kaye - Oppenheimer

Zane Karimi - D.A. Davidson

Alexander Leach - Berenberg

Operator

Greetings, and welcome to the Clean Harbors, Inc. First Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.

It is now my pleasure to introduce your host Michael McDonald, General Counsel for Clean Harbors, Inc. Thank you, sir. You may begin.

Michael McDonald

Thank you, Christine, and good morning, everyone. With me on today's call are Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Alan S. McKim; EVP and Chief Financial Officer, Mike Battles; President and Chief Operating Officer, Eric Gerstenberg; and SVP of Investor Relations, Jim Buckley.

Slides for today's call are posted on our website. We invite you to follow along. Matters we are discussing today that are not historical facts are considered forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Participants are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these statements, which reflect management's opinions only as of today May 4th, 2022. Information on potential facts -- factors, and risks that could affect our actual results of operations is included in our SEC filings. The company undertakes no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of any revision to the statements made in today's call, other than through filings made concerning this reporting period.

Today's discussion will include references to non-GAAP measures. Clean Harbors believes that such information provides an additional measurement and consistent historical comparison of its performance. Reconciliations of these measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are available in today's news release, on our website, and in the appendix of today's presentation.

With that, I'd like to turn the call over to our CEO, Alan McKim. Alan?

Alan McKim

Thanks, Michael. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. I'd like to start today's call with a topic I'm passionate about and that’s safety. It's our priority here as we focus across the organization, our number one core value. Having had the privilege of being in the seat for more than 40 years, I've always envisioned that by continuing to integrate safety into our culture that we could show continuous improvement and really generate an annual total recordable incident rate of under one with our true goal of being zero incidents.