ExxonMobil Plant Earns NPRA Distinguished Safety Award For Fifth Consecutive Year
San Antonio, TX - Norm Phillips, NPRA's Vice Chairman of the Board, recently presented the Association's highest award, the Distinguished Safety Award (DSA), to ExxonMobil Chemical Company's Baton Rouge Polyolefins Plant for the fifth consecutive year. Since the NPRA safety awards program began in 1982, no other company has won the coveted DSA for five years in a row. Sherman Glass, Senior Vice President, Basic Chemicals, Intermediates & Synthetics, accepted the award for ExxonMobil Chemical Company at NPRA's International Petrochemical Conference at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center.
Also receiving the DSA Honorable Mention this year are the Citgo Corpus Christi, TX, Refinery and the ExxonMobil Baton Rouge, LA, Refinery. All of the winners will also be recognized at the NPRA Annual Safety Awards Banquet to be held May 3, 2007, in The Woodlands, Texas, as part of the NPRA National Safety Conference.
"Protecting the health and safety of employees and communities and safeguarding the environment are fundamental values of NPRA members," said Norm Phillips. "NPRA members work diligently each day to implement continuing improvements – in preventing spills, in reducing emissions, in training for emergencies and by developing ever-safer products and processes. This award recognizes those facilities that have operated to the highest standard of excellence."
The Distinguished Safety Award is part of the comprehensive safety awards program developed by NPRA's Safety & Health Committee. The committee promotes accident prevention in the petroleum refining and petrochemical manufacturing industries and publicly recognizes the industry's excellent record of safety in operations.
Recipients of the Distinguished Safety Award must pass a comprehensive review of individual safety performance programs. To be considered for the award, a location must achieve both an employee and contractor total recordable incidence rate of 0.8 or less and have had no employee cases involving days away from work for the applicable evaluation period. (A total recordable incidence rate is a calculation of the number of injuries and illnesses reported to the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration multiplied by 200,000, the base number of hours worked for 100 full time employees. This is then divided by the total employee hours worked in that calendar year.)
A selection committee from NPRA's Safety & Health Committee then examines the facility's overall performance history over three evaluation periods and its performance -- based on number of hours or years worked without a lost workday case -- and reviews a written description of the facility's safety program.
NPRA is a national trade association with more than 450 member companies, including virtually all U.S. refiners and petrochemical manufacturers.
SOURCE: National Petrochemical & Refiners Association