Lofton Corporation Adds Safety Division
Feb 2, 2015
Baton Rouge, LA, January 25, 2016: Lofton Corporation announced today the acquisition of Global Safety Consultants, "GSC”, a Lafayette-based safety company. The new addition to the Lofton family of companies allows Lofton to provide safety training and consulting services across it’s footprint of offices in the Gulf South focusing on state, federal, and client-specific regulatory compliance. The new division will operate under the name Lofton Safety Services.
"Lofton has always strived to be more than a staffing company, but a true partner to our clients as it relates to workforce management.” says Bart Lofton, Co-President of Lofton Corporation. "With GSC, we already had an established relationship. They are a family owned company based in Lafayette, La with similar values in line with our own. We see this as an opportunity to not only help our clients with their safety needs, but to help assure the safety and health of our assignment employees.”
Under the leadership of GSC’s founder and President, Steve Ham, Lofton Safety Services will provide safety consulting and training services including both onsite and offsite training with a focus on competencies including SEMS compliance, OSHA and MSHA regulations. Lofton Safety will also offer fully outsourced HSE management services on an interim or long-term basis. Lofton will continue to build upon GSC’s reputation of having an extremely customized, hands-on approach to safety management and training. For more information on these services go to www.safetygsc.com
About Lofton: Lofton was founded in 1979 by Tommy Lofton and has grown from a small firm to a full-service corporation with consulting, staffing, security, energy, and medical staffing services. Lofton has fourteen offices throughout the southern U.S. with its corporate headquarters located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Lofton specializes in partnering with clients to continuously develop their business through the recruitment and retention of the top talent in their respective industries. Lofton’s commitment to service is evident through our award winning staff and assignment employees, winning Inavero’s Best of Staffing Award for the past five years. We don’t just say we have the best service…We Prove It.