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STRATEGY
LOW-CARBON
ENVIRONMENT
SAFETY
COMMUNITY
PEOPLE
GOVERNANCE
Employee Safety Training
Safety training ensures
In 2022, our refinery
that our employees are
employees completed
provided the knowledge,
more than 655,000
skills and abilities
hours in safety
required to execute
training programs.
their jobs to the highest
standard. As stated in our CTEMS expectations, all
employees receive appropriate training throughout
their employment. This includes training in emergency
preparedness, process safety, the seven Life-Saving
Rules and on all processes and equipment changes
affecting their job assignments, as well as cybersecurity
risks. Training programs include computer-based
sessions, instructor-led courses, frequent safety
meetings and daily safety talks. We also have internal
processes in place through which we continue to review
and update our training programs.
Contractor Safety Training
As safety is a top priority, the contractors we hire
are required to uphold the strong safety culture of
Valero in their everyday work. In 2022, our contractors
participated in more than 1.1 million safety training
hours. In addition, contractors working at Valero
refineries have been awarded a total of 26 OSHA VPP
Stars.
All contractors are pre-screened by a third party to
ensure they meet or exceed Valero’s health and safety
expectations. Contractors are also trained initially
and annually through a reciprocal contractor safety
council focused on site-specific health and safety
requirements. As a part of our CTEMS expectations,
we have a program in place to ensure contractor
Nearly half of our 12 ethanol plants have
now gone more than two years without
an employee recordable injury. In 2022,
the entire ethanol fleet had no contractor
recordable injuries.
alignment with Valero's safety, health, environmental
and reliability expectations. This includes:
• Clear accountabilities and requirements for safety
and contract performance.
• Requirements for contractors to have in place
controls ensuring procured materials and services
are verified and qualified as contracted.
Personnel Safety Performance
(Recordable injuries per 200,000 working hours)
Valero employees
and contractors
1.10
Total Recordable Incident Rate
(TRIR)
Refining industry24
0.62
0.50
0.22
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
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