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2023 Safety Awards
Valero Chairman’s Awards
Valero McKee Re昀椀nery - The Valero
Chairman's Safety Award is granted
to the site with the most outstanding
personnel and process safety
performance. Notable achievements
by the Valero McKee Re昀椀nery
include zero recordable employee
or contractor injuries in 2023, zero
employee injuries in three years, zero
contractor injuries in 昀椀ve years, zero
Tier 1 Process Safety events in 2023
and VPP Star site since 2019.
Valero Charles City Ethanol Plant The Chairman's Award for Excellence
in Renewables was awarded for no
employee or contractor recordable
injuries in nearly four years, no Tier 1
Process Safety Events in more than
10 years and no scorecard reliability
events in 2023. Following this plant’s
turnaround in 2024, the Valero Charles
City Ethanol Plant is projected to reach
record run rates that are 60% higher
than the original design.
Valero Houston Re昀椀nery - The Valero
Chairman's Re昀椀nery Reliability Award
is determined primarily by the number
of downtime events, both stewardable
and non-stewardable, and the
percentage of re昀椀nery unit downtime,
both annualized turnaround
downtime and downtime outside of
turnarounds. In 2023, for the sixth time
in the award’s 18-year history, the
winner of this award was the Valero
Houston Re昀椀nery. This re昀椀nery had
no stewardable unit outages for two
years straight and tied for best “time
on tools" performance within our
re昀椀ning segment. Additionally, the site
had no Tier 1 Process Safety Events,
led the segment in non-turnaround
downtime and had the least
amount of unit downtime, outside of
turnarounds over the last two years.
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American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers
(AFPM) Safety Awards
The AFPM Annual Safety Awards are the industry’s premier safety
awards. The Elite Platinum Safety Award recognizes sites that have
demonstrated superior program innovation and leadership over time;
the Elite Gold Award recognizes facilities with safety performances in
the top 5 percentile; and the Elite Silver Award recognizes the top 10
percentile of industry safety.
• One 2023 Elite Platinum Award – Awarded to the Valero Three
Rivers Re昀椀nery.
• Two 2023 Elite Gold Awards - Awarded to the Valero Houston and
McKee Re昀椀neries.
• One 2023 Elite Silver Award – Awarded to the Valero Wilmington
Asphalt Plant.
Innovation Award (Occupational Safety) recognizes companies that
have developed and implemented new and innovative ways to identify
and manage operating risks. Since the award's inception in 2020, Valero
has received eight of the 23 total innovation awards given.
• Two 2023 Innovation Awards – Awarded to the Valero McKee and
Three Rivers Re昀椀neries.
Safety Achievement Award
• Five 2023 Safety Achievement Awards - Awarded to the Valero
Houston, McKee, Memphis and Three Rivers Re昀椀neries, and the
Valero Wilmington Asphalt Plant.
U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and
Health Administration's (OSHA) Voluntary Protection
Program (VPP)
Our participation in OSHA's Voluntary Protection Program exempli昀椀es
our consistent pursuit of going beyond regulatory requirements by
voluntarily submitting to robust safety audits. OSHA approves VPP
Star Site status only if the facility demonstrates that enhanced safety
systems have been implemented and embraced in a collaborative way
by leaders and employees. Sites are reassessed by OSHA every three to
昀椀ve years in order to maintain their VPP status.
• VPP Star Site status at nine re昀椀neries: Ardmore, Corpus Christi
(East and West), Houston, McKee, Memphis, St. Charles, Texas City
and Three Rivers Re昀椀neries.
• Other facilities with VPP Star Site status: Corpus Christi Asphalt
Plant, Houston Asphalt Plant, St. James Terminal, Valero Aviation
Department and the St. Charles renewable diesel plant.
• Valero's international re昀椀neries, Pembroke and Quebec, have
received VPP's equivalent assessment and approval.
In 2023, the Valero Wilmington Asphalt Plant entered into a cooperative
program with Cal/OSHA46 called Cal/Reach that is designed to assist the
site in becoming a VPP Star Site.
