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2022 Safety Awards
Valero Chairman’s Awards
Valero Three Rivers Refinery
Valero Quebec Refinery
The Valero Chairman's Safety Award is granted to the site with
the most outstanding personnel and process safety performance.
Notable achievements by the Three Rivers refinery include the
highest Valero Safety Assessment for Excellence (VSAFE) score to
date; VPP Star site for almost 20 years; zero employee or contractor
injuries with over 1.2 million hours worked; and zero high-potential
incidents under the Goal Zero program.
Valero Hartley Ethanol Plant
The Chairman's Award for Excellence in Renewables was
awarded for no employee recordable injuries in over two years; no
contractor recordable injuries; no Tier 1 process safety events in
nearly six years; no scorecard reliability events in over nine years;
and this plant, during a time of low ethanol margins, adjusted
plans and completed a full turnaround with the final cost being
more than 40% under budget — an outstanding achievement.
American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers
(AFPM) Safety Awards:
Distinguished Safety Award (DSA) recognizes refineries
and petrochemical facilities that have sustained an
exemplary level of safety performance in the domestic
refining and petrochemical manufacturing industries.
The award has three levels: Distinguished Safety Award
(top applicants), Elite Gold Award (top 5 percent of
applicants) and Elite Silver Award (top 10 percent of
applicants).
• Two 2022 Elite Gold Awards - Awarded to Valero
Three Rivers and Memphis Refineries.
• Two 2022 Elite Silver Awards – Awarded to Valero
McKee Refinery and Wilmington Asphalt Plant.
• Two 2022 Innovation Awards – Recipients include
Valero Ardmore and Benicia Refineries. The AFPM
innovation award 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
six of the 20 total innovation awards given.
Our participation in the U.S. Department of Labor
Occupational Safety and Health Administration's
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The Valero Chairman's Refinery
Reliability Award is determined
primarily by the number of downtime
events, both stewardable and nonstewardable; and the percentage
of refinery unit downtime, both
annualized turnaround downtime and
downtime outside of turnarounds.
The Valero Quebec Refinery had no
stewardable unit outages for three of
the last four years and was the leader
in six of the last 10 years. Additionally,
the site had no non-stewardable
downtime events in 2022 and the
lowest number of non-stewardable
events within the refining system for
nine of the last 10 years.
(OSHA) Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) exemplifies
our consistent pursuit of going beyond regulatory
requirements by voluntarily submitting to robust safety
certifications and 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 five years in order
to maintain their VPP status.
• VPP Star Site Status at Nine Refineries: Ardmore,
Corpus Christi (East and West), Houston, McKee,
Memphis, St. Charles, Texas City and Three Rivers
refineries.
• Valero Stars, which are not part of the OSHA VPP
program but receive a VPP equivalent approval, were
awarded to our international refineries in Pembroke
and Quebec.
• In 2022, Valero supported the VPP reapproval process
at five sites: McKee, Corpus Christi (East and West) and
St. Charles refineries as well as the St. James terminal.
An initial VPP audit was completed at the renewable
diesel plant adjacent to the St. Charles refinery and
two new VPP applications were submitted for the
Wilmington refinery and Wilmington asphalt plant.
