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AFPM 2019 National Occupational and Process Safety Conference Safety Awards Gaylord Texan April 24-25, 2019 afpm.org/conferences Program Grapevine, Texas #AFPMNSC National Occupational and Process Safety Conference Preparing for Tomorrow AFPM congratulates all of this year’s award recipients on their outstanding achievements. Best wishes for a safe 2019. Masters of Ceremonies Distinguished Safety Award Master of Ceremonies Presentation of Awards AFPM’s most prestigious award, the Distinguished Randy Patton Joseph Gorder Safety Award (DSA) recognizes those member Vice President, Chairman, President and company refineries and petrochemical plants Health and Safety Chief Executive Officer that have attained a sustained, exemplary level of HollyFrontier Corporation Valero Energy Corporation safety performance in the domestic refining and AFPM Safety & Health Chairman, petrochemical manufacturing industries. Recipients Committee Chair AFPM Board of Directors are chosen by a selection committee composed of members of the AFPM Safety & Health Committee. Sean Horne Chet Thompson It is the DSA Selection Committee’s responsibility to Vice President, Safety President and CEO carefully examine the safety performance records Valero Energy Corporation AFPM of individual plant locations using the specific AFPM Safety & Health screening and selection criteria detailed below. Committee Vice-Chair Elite Gold Safety Award AFPM Safety Awards Program This award is typically presented to the top one percent of member company refineries and The presentation of the AFPM Safety Award plaques petrochemical plants that have exhibited superior is part of a comprehensive safety awards program safety performance and program innovation as which the Association’s Safety & Health Committee has determined by the DSA Selection Committee. developed to promote safety performance achievements in the petroleum refining, petrochemical manufacturing, Elite Silver Safety Award and contracting industries and to publicly recognize the excellent record of safety in operations which the This award is typically presented to the top industries and contractors have achieved. five percent of member company refineries and petrochemical plants that have exhibited AFPM Safety Awards are based on records kept for excellent industry safety performance and employees in accordance with OSHA record keeping program innovation as determined by the requirements as defined by law and entered on the DSA Selection Committee. OSHA 300A summary form and API RP 754, Process Safety Performance Indicators for the Refining and Petrochemical Industries. Front cover photo credit: PBF Energy afpm.org/conferences AFPM Safety Award Recipients The 27th Annual Safety Awards dinner honors 26 regular member companies, 40 refineries, 43 petrochemical plants with 116 awards. Twenty-eight associate member companies with 471 awards in for their efforts in 143 facilities. Distinguished Safety Award Winners ExxonMobil Chemical LyondellBasell Industries Phillips 66 Company Channelview Complex Ponca City Refinery Baton Rouge Polyolefins LyondellBasell Industries Shell Oil Products US ExxonMobil Chemical Chocolate Bayou Martinez Refinery Company Polymers Facility Baytown Chemical Plant LyondellBasell Industries Clinton Complex Elite Gold Safety Award Winners LyondellBasell Industries LyondellBasell Industries Phillips 66 Phillips 66 Houston Refinery Matagorda Complex Ferndale Refinery Los Angeles Refinery Elite Silver Safety Award Winners Chevron Phillips Delek US LyondellBasell Industries Oxea Corporation Chemical Company LP Krotz Springs Refinery Equistar Chemicals, LP – Bay City Cedar Bayou Victoria ExxonMobil Chemical Phillips 66 Chevron Phillips Company LyondellBasell Industries Billings Refinery Chemical Company LP Pensacola Special Morris Site Drilling Specialties Elastomers Plant Phillips 66 Conroe Plant Marathon Petroleum WRB Refining LP – ExxonMobil Refining & Supply Corporation Borger Refinery Chevron Phillips Baton Rouge Refinery Dickinson Refinery Chemical Company LP Phillips 66 Pasadena Plastics Complex Flint Hills Resources LLC Marathon Petroleum San Francisco Refinery – Peru Plant Corporation Santa Maria Plant Chevron Phillips Martinez Refinery Chemical Company LP LyondellBasell Industries Valero Energy Corporation Port Arthur Plant Corpus Christi Operations Marathon Petroleum Ardmore Refinery Corporation Chevron Phillips LyondellBasell Industries Salt Lake City Chemical Company LP Equistar Chemicals, LP – Refining Division Sweeny/Old Ocean Facilities Lake Charles Polymers 2 Safety Awards Program Distinguished Safety Award Safety Achievement Award (Operating Members) Screening Criteria Screening Criteria In order to qualify for the DSA, a facility must first pass the In order to qualify for the Safety Achievement Award, a facility screening criteria as described below: must first pass the following screening criteria. 1. A location must achieve the following requirements for the calendar year: 1. A location must achieve the following requirements for a. an employee total recordable incidence rate (TRIR) of the calendar year: employee & contractor aggregate total 0.30 or less, recordable incidence rate (TRIR) of 0.35 or less b. a contractor total recordable incidence rate (TRIR) of 0.30 or less, 2. A location must have had no employee workplace related fatalities and no non-employee (contractor, visitor, etc.) 2. A location must have had no employee workplace related workplace related fatalities for the reporting year. fatalities and no non-employee (contractor, visitor, etc.) workplace related fatalities for the previous five A location must answer no to the following questions to pass consecutive years. the screening criteria and be eligible to apply for the Safety Achievement award: A location must answer no to the following questions: 3. Did the location experience an injury to a company employee 1. Did the location experience a community evacuation or that required hospitalization (admitted for treatment) during sheltering event, or worker/ contractor hospitalization the evaluation period? (admitted for treatment) during the evaluation period? 4. Did the location experience a company employee recordable 2. Did the location experience a recordable injury where any injury where any of the following caused or contributed to the of the following caused or contributed to the injury during injury during the evaluation year? the evaluation year? • Failure to isolate hazardous energy (lockout/tagout) • Failure to isolate hazardous energy (lockout/tagout) • Opening process equipment not properly prepared for • Opening process equipment not properly prepared for maintenance maintenance • Improperly prepared or hazardous confined space • Improperly prepared or hazardous confined Space • Improperly prepared or hazardous excavation • Improperly prepared or hazardous excavation • Any falls from height (>4 feet) • Any falls from height (>4 feet) • Any Tier 1 or 2 Process Safety Event (PSE) • Any Tier 1 or 2 Process Safety Event (PSE) • Contact/exposure to hazardous materials (physical • Contact/exposure to hazardous materials (physical and and chemical) chemical) • H2S, HF, Hydrocarbons, Corrosives, Electricity, Radiation, • H2S, HF, Hydrocarbons, Corrosives, Electricity, Radiation, Excessive Heat, etc. Excessive Heat, etc. • Any crane or rigging failure • Any crane or rigging failure 5. Did the location experience a community evacuation or 3. Did the location have any API RP Tier 1 Process Safety Events sheltering event during the evaluation period? (PSE) that required notification to the National Response Center during the evaluation year? 6. Did the location have any API RP Tier 1 Process Safety Events (PSE) that required notification to the National Response Selection Criteria Center during the evaluation year? After passing the screening criteria, the candidate facility’s overall safety performance record will be evaluated by the selection committee based on the applicant’s written application. Those sites that are in the running for the DSA and Elite Gold awards participate in in-person interviews with representatives of the DSA Selection Committee. American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers afpm.org/conferences 3 Safety Achievement Award (Operating Members) Braskem America, Inc. Huntsman Corporation Occidental Chemical Corporation • Neal Plant • Conroe Plant OxyVinyls, LP • Seadrift Plant • Houston (Oxid) Site • Houston Operations-Deer Park • Technology and Innovation Center • Huntsman Freeport VCM Site Ethyleneamines Plant Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP Rubicon LLC Oxea Corporation • Borger Plant • Geismar Plant • Bay City Plant • Cedar Bayou Chemical Complex • Drilling Specialties Conroe Plant INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA PBF Energy Inc. • Pasadena Plastics Complex • Bayport Plant • Paulsboro Refinery • Port Arthur Plant • Chocolate Bayou Works O&P • Torrance Refinery • Sweeny/Old Ocean Facilities • Texas City Plant INEOS Nitriles Phillips 66 Chevron U.S.A. Inc. • Green Lake Chemical Plant • Billings Refinery Chevron Corporation • Ferndale Refinery • Chevron Richmond Koch Industries, Inc. • Los Angeles Refinery • El Segundo Refinery Flint Hills Resources, LP • Ponca City Refinery • Pascagoula Refinery • Corpus Christi Complex • Santa Maria Facility • Salt Lake Refinery • Longview Polypropylene Facility • WRB Refining, LP - Borger Refinery • Peru Plant CITGO Petroleum Corporation INVISTA Shell Oil Products U.S. • Corpus Christi Refinery • Victoria Plant • Geismar Plant • Lemont Refinery • Wilmington Plant • Norco Chemical Plant • Norco Refinery
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