goSafe
Distributor of PPE, fall protection, FR clothing and occupational health supplies in La Porte, Texas, with on-site customization, equipment rental and a factory authorized repair center.
goSafe is a distributor of personal protective equipment, occupational health products, fall protection and customized flame resistant garments, working from a stocked service facility at its corporate headquarters on Underwood Road in La Porte, Texas, within the Houston metropolitan area. Founded in 1979 and privately held under W. Joe Shaw, LTD, the company sells through an online catalog alongside a direct sales team and customer care staff. It describes itself as one of the most substantial privately held distributors of industrial safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene and medical supplies in the United States.
Burk Shaw serves as president and Joe Shaw as chairman of the board. goSafe is an Owner-Member of AD, which it describes as a community of independent distributors and supplier partners.
Product categories
The catalog is organized around general PPE, safety clothing, facility and worksite products, and specialty items, with merchandised areas for:
- Fall protection
- Flame resistant clothing and footwear
- Hand protection
- Instrumentation
- Occupational health and medical supplies
Programs and services
Beyond product supply, goSafe runs a set of managed programs for accounts:
- National account services
- Product customization
- Prescription eyewear program
- Equipment rental
- Certified inspection and repair
- FR clothing programs
- Boot and shoe programs
Product customization
A customization unit operates on-site, running 6-head embroidery, 6-color screen printing, digital transfers and pad printing. The unit is staffed by more than 20 people cross-trained on all of the equipment, which the company states keeps every machine operational at all times. Its stated specialty is FR garment customization, covering patches, reflective tape, alterations and embroidery.
Items handled include coveralls, shirts, hats, hard hats, safety vests, safety eyewear, safety awards, promotional items and gear bags.
Equipment rental
Rentals are available on a daily, weekly or monthly basis for industrial workplace applications. The rental fleet covers:
- Air sampling pumps
- Gas detection monitors
- Confined space kits
- Retractable lifelines
- Noise dosimeters
- Quantitative fit testers
- Temporary horizontal lifelines
- Data logging sound meters
Inspection and repair
goSafe operates as a Factory Authorized Repair Center, certified for gas detection instruments from Bio Systems by Honeywell, BW Technologies by Honeywell, MSA, RKI and ISC. Certification also covers hoist repair, Miller Fall Protection by Honeywell, retractable lifeline repair, Reliance products and fire extinguishers.
The website carries a set of reference material alongside the catalog, including safety literature, a safety blog, safety FAQs, videos, and sections it labels Hazard School and Expert Zone.
Services
- Well Intervention and Rental
- Fishing Services
- Downhole Tool Rental and Repair
- Drilling Services
- Workshop Services and Repair
- Sales and Engineering
- Casing Patch
- Cutting and Removal of Casing
- Milling and Removal of Packers and Bridge Plugs
- Packer Removal
- Plug and Abandonment
- Thru Tubing
- Wellbore Clean Out
- Whipstock
- Under-reamer, Coring and Hole-Opener Services
- Top Drive Repair
- Calibration of Breakout Torque Units and Jar Testers
- Inspection and Certification of Downhole Tools
- Redress and Recertification of Jars, Shock Subs, Motors and Fishing Tools
- Stabilizer Repair
- Carbide Services
- BHA Analysis and Optimization
Equipment and products
- Downhole Tools (Jars, Shocks, Stabilizers, Mud Motors)
- Impact Tools
- Fishing and Milling Tools
- Eckel Power Tongs and HPU
- Drilling Rig Parts (Drawworks, Mud Pumps, Rotary Tables, Hooks, Swivels, Travelling Blocks)
- SCR and AC Drive
- Top Drives
- Agitators
- Drilling Simulators
- Memory Gauges
Brands carried
Bowen · Griffith · Logan · Schlumberger · Megaton · Eckel · RedBack · Paradigm · Smith · Bico · TTS · Hunting · Limar · MD Totco
Regions served
North Africa · Algeria · Turkey · UAE (Jebel Ali) · Houston, USA