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2017 Safety Awards Event New Orleans Marriott 2017 Safety New Orleans, Louisiana Awards Event May 18, 2017 FACES OF THE INDUSTRY American Fuel & #SAFETY17 Petrochemical Manufacturers afpm.org AFPM SAFETY AWARDS PROGRAM The presentation of the AFPM AFPM CONGRATULATES ALL Safety Award plaques is part of a comprehensive safety awards program OF THIS YEAR’S AWARD which the Association’s Safety & Health RECIPIENTS ON THEIR Committee has developed to promote safety performance achievements in OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS. the petroleum refining, petrochemical manufacturing, and contracting industries and to publicly recognize the excellent BEST WISHES FOR A SAFE 2017. record of safety in operations which the industries and contractors have achieved. AFPM Safety Awards are based on records kept for employees in accordance with OSHA record keeping requirements as defined by law and entered on the OSHA 300A summary TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Distinguished Safety Award form and API RP 754, Process Safety Elite Gold Safety Award Performance Indicators for the Refining Elite Silver Safety Award and Petrochemical Industries. 3 Operating Member Awards 2016 The Safety Awards Program honors AFPM Regular member companies 5 Contractor Awards operating U.S. refineries and petrochemical manufacturing plants as 12 Quick Reference Alphabetical well as Associate member contractors working in those facilities. The program 15 AFPM Safety and Health Committee consists of the following awards. 17 News Release MASTERS OF Master of Ceremonies CEREMONIES Robert Bahr Global Process Safety & Risk Manager Exxon Mobil Corporation, AFPM Safety & Health Committee Chair Michael Ingraham VP S&OR Fuels NA BP Products North America AFPM Safety & Health Committee Vice Chair Presentation of DSA Awards Lawrence Ziemba Executive Vice President, Refining Phillips 66 AFPM Chairman of the Board & Chet Thompson President and CEO AFPM Cover photographs: ©Marathon Petroleum Corporation 2 AFPM SAFETY AWARD RECIPIENTS THE 25TH ANNUAL SAFETY AWARDS DINNER THIRTY-SIX ASSOCIATE MEMBER COMPANIES ARE HONORS 31 REGULAR MEMBER COMPANIES RECOGNIZED FOR THEIR EXCELLENT REPRESENTED BY 31 REFINERIES AND SAFETY PERFORMANCE WITH 489 AWARDS 49 PETROCHEMICAL PLANTS WITH A GRAND FOR THEIR EFFORTS IN 155 FACILITIES. TOTAL OF 102 AWARDS. THE DISTINGUISHED SAFETY THE ELITE GOLD SAFETY THE ELITE SILVER SAFETY AWARD WINNERS ARE AWARD WINNERS ARE AWARD WINNERS ARE ExxonMobil Chemical Company ExxonMobil Chemical Company BASF Baton Rouge Polyolefins Beaumont Polyethylene Plant Pasadena CPN ExxonMobil Chemical Company LyondellBasell Industries Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP Baytown Chemical Plant La Porte Complex Borger Plant LyondellBasell Industries Shell Oil Products US Chevron Products Company Equistar Chemicals – Martinez Refinery Salt Lake Refinery Lake Charles Polymers Tesoro Refining & Marketing Company, ExxonMobil Chemical Company Phillips 66 LLC Baton Rouge Plastics Plant Lake Charles Manufacturing Complex Anacortes Refinery ExxonMobil Refining & Supply Billings Refinery DISTINGUISHED SAFETY AWARD ELITE GOLD SAFETY AWARD LyondellBasell Industries AFPM’s most prestigious award, the This award is presented to the top one Chocolate Bayou Polymers Facility Distinguished Safety Award (DSA) percent of member company refineries recognizes those member company and petrochemical plants that have LyondellBasell Industries refineries and petrochemical plants that exhibited superior safety performance Edison Catalyst Manufacturing have attained a sustained, exemplary and program innovation as determined level of safety performance in the domes- by the DSA Selection Committee. LyondellBasell Industries tic refining and petrochemical manufac- Equistar Chemicals – Tuscola Facility turing industries. Recipients are chosen by a selection committee composed of Phillips 66 members of the AFPM Safety & Health Bayway Refinery Committee. It is the DSA Selection Com- mittee’s responsibility to carefully ex- Phillips 66 amine the safety performance records of Billings Refinery individual plant locations using the specific screening and selection criteria detailed Phillips 66 below. San Francisco Refinery – Rodeo Plant See page 2 for screening criteria. Phillips 66 San Francisco Refinery – Santa Maria Plant Phillips 66 Sweeny Refinery Valero Refining Company Wilmington Refinery ELITE SILVER SAFETY AWARD This award is presented to the top five percent of member company refineries and petrochemical plants that have exhibited excellent industry safety performance and program innovation as determined by the DSA Selection Committee. PRODUCTS FOR YOUR LIFE. EVERY DAY. DISTINGUISHED SAFETY AWARD Screening Criteria Selection Criteria In order to qualify for the DSA, a facility 2. Did the location experience a recordable After passing the screening criteria, must first pass the screening criteria as injury where any of the following caused the candidate facility’s overall safety described below: or contributed to the injury during the performance record will be evaluated by 1. A location must achieve the following evaluation year? the selection committee based on the requirements for the calendar year: • Failure to isolate hazardous energy applicant’s written application. Those sites a. an employee total recordable incidence (lockout/tagout) that are in the running for the DSA and rate (TRIR) of 0.3 or less, • Opening process equipment not Elite Gold awards participate in in-person b. a contractor total recordable incidence properly prepared for maintenance interviews with representatives of the DSA rate (TRIR) of 0.3 or less, • Improperly prepared or hazardous Selection Committee. 2. A location must have had no employee confined Space workplace related fatalities and no • Improperly prepared or hazardous non-employee (contractor, visitor, etc.) excavation workplace related fatalities for the previous • Any falls from height (>4 feet) five consecutive years. • Any Tier 1 or 2 Process Safety Event (PSE) A location must answer no to the following • Contact/exposure to hazardous questions: materials (physical and chemical) 1. Did the location experience a community • H2S, HF, Hydrocarbons, Corrosives, evacuation or sheltering event, or worker/ Electricity, Radiation, Excessive Heat, etc. contractor hospitalization (admitted for • Any crane or rigging failure treatment) during the evaluation period? 3. Did the location have any API RP Tier 1 Process Safety Events (PSE) that required notification to the National Response Center during the evaluation year? SAFETY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (OPERATING MEMBERS) Screening Criteria In order to qualify for the Safety 3. Did the location experience an injury to 5. Did the location experience a Achievement Award, a facility must first a company employee that required community evacuation or sheltering pass the following screening criteria. hospitalization (admitted for treatment) event during the evaluation period? during the evaluation period? 1. A location must achieve an employee 6. Did the location have any API RP Tier total recordable incidence rate (TRIR) of 4. Did the location experience a company 1 Process Safety Events (PSE) that 0.45 or less for the calendar year: employee recordable injury where any required notification to the National of the following caused or contributed to Response Center during the evaluation 2. A location must have had no employee the injury during the evaluation year? year? workplace related fatalities and no • Failure to isolate hazardous energy non-employee (contractor, visitor, etc.) (lockout/tagout) workplace related fatalities for the • Opening process equipment not reporting year. properly prepared for maintenance • Improperly prepared or hazardous A location must answer NO to the confined space following questions to pass the • Improperly prepared or hazardous screening criteria and be eligible to excavation apply for the Safety Achievement award: • Any falls from height (>4 feet) • Any Tier 1 or 2 Process Safety Event (PSE) • Contact/exposure to hazardous materials (physical and chemical) • H2S, HF, Hydrocarbons, Corrosives, Electricity, Radiation, Excessive Heat, etc. • Any crane or rigging failure 2 OPERATING MEMBER AWARDS 2016 BASF INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA – Pasadena CPN – Bayport Plant – Carson Polypropylene Plant Braskem America, Inc. – Chocolate Bayou Works – Marcus Hook - Polymers Plant – Texas City Plant – Neal Plant – Oyster Creek Plant Koch Industries, Inc. – Seadrift Plant – Flint Hills Resources, LP – Technology and Innovation Center – Flint Hills Resources Port Arthur, LLC – Pine Bend Refinery Celanese Ltd. – INVISTA – Auburn Hills Plant – Orange Site – Bay City Plant – Wilmington Plant – Bishop Plant – Clear Lake Technical Center LyondellBasell Industries – Florence Plant – Bayport Choate Plant – Narrows Plant – Bayport Polymers Plant – Winona Plant – Channelview Chemical Complex – Chocolate Bayou Polymers Facility Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP – Clinton Complex – Bartlesville-Research and Technology Center – Matagorda Complex – Borger Plant – Tuscola Plant – Port Arthur Plant – Houston Refining, LP – Sweeny Complex – Houston Refinery Chevron U.S.A. Inc. Marathon Petroleum Corporation – Chevron Products Company – Marathon Petroleum Company LP – Chevron Richmond – Marathon Louisiana Refining Division – Pascagoula Refinery – Robinson Illinois Refinery – Salt Lake Refinery Monroe Energy, LLC CITGO Petroleum Corporation – Trainer Refinery – Lemont Refinery Motiva Enterprises LLC CVR Energy, Inc. – Sewaren Plant – Coffeyville Refinery Occidental Chemical
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