Brand refresh connects industry-innovator origins of OAMPS Hazardous Industries to future growth strategy
Published On : 30 Jan 2025
OAMPS Hazardous Industries, the specialist insurance advisor to the hazardous fuels and environmental sectors, has undergone a brand refresh to mark 40 years of consistent commitment to the sector.
The use of ‘heritage blue’ throughout its website, advertising and social channels is a deliberate nod to OAMPS’ origins in the 1980s as an innovator that emerged to deliver fleet risk solutions to a highly specialist sector when no others were available.
Forty years ago in the early 1980s, following some large explosions in the late 1970s, health and safety concerns surrounding the movement of hazardous fuels had resulted in the whole sector finding itself well outside the appetite of mainstream insurance brokers and insurance companies.
OAMPS Hazardous Industries was founded by petrochemical specialists to change that.
Incorporated as OAMPS UK Limited in 1985, OAMPS Hazardous Industries began life placing high-risk fuel fleet motor business into its own, specially established insurance captive to ensure the wheels could keep turning on a vital sector that underpins so many industries.
Over the four decades since, creating bespoke insurance solutions for fuel distribution has expanded to encompass many other ‘hazardous’ industries, but OAMPS has remained closely aligned with the downstream sector through the creation and continued sponsorship of the UKIFDA Driver of the Year award, which is now in its 25th year.
Building and maintaining close working relationships with leading industry organisations has played a crucial part in OAMPS Hazardous Industries reaching its 40th year and looking ahead to the decades to come, by ensuring its knowledge and industry insight grows in step with the sectors it supports.
Commenting on the brand refresh to recognise four decades in business, Karl Jones, Account Director at OAMPS Hazardous Industries, said: “To mark 40 years of unwavering commitment to the industries we support, our return to heritage blue ties together a past, present and future where our core values remain unchanged.
“OAMPS Hazardous Industries was a ‘disruptor’ before the term even existed. It was created out of real need, to develop viable alternative risk solutions for customers in the downstream fuel market where there were none. And that same approach – blending innovation with integrity and expertise with transparency – powers our business today.
“Four decades of working closely with so many of the UK’s hazardous industrial sectors, has also given us the risk understanding needed to support new, emerging and innovative technologies using the same can-do creative outlook.
“Alternative fuel sources, like HVO, are a case in point, and we were delighted to be able to provide insurance-related advice and guidance to UKIFDA ahead of the initial pilot scheme.
“We will continue to work closely with trade associations to help insurance underwriters understand these evolving risks and how they can be effectively managed. And, as we look to support our sector in its transition to a renewable energy-fuelled, low-carbon future, we’ll make sure we use our expertise to deliver innovative risk solutions and real value, just as our founders did 40 years ago.”
