Two Chevron Phillips (CP) chemical plants in Borger and Orange, Texas, were among the nation’s top 5% safety performers to be recognized by the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) with an Elite Gold Safety Award for their 2022 performance, according to a March 29 press release from Chevron Phillips.
CPChem plants in Port Arthur and Sweeny, Texas, won the Elite Silver Safety Award, which the AFPM gives to the top 10% of safety performers in the industry. AFPM is a national trade association representing the makers of fuels and petrochemical products.
The Elite Gold and Silver Safety Awards recognize AFPM member facilities that demonstrate outstanding safety performance along with safety program innovation and leadership. To win these awards, AFPM member facilities undergo a rigorous screening process by the AFPM Distinguished Safety Award Selection Committee.
Of the 246 facilities that applied in 2022, only 29 passed the screening criteria:
1. A location must have had no employee workplace related fatalities and no non-employee (contractor, visitor, etc.) workplace related fatalities for the reporting year.
A location must answer NO to the following questions to pass the screening criteria and be eligible to apply for the Safety Achievement Award:
2. Did the location experience an injury to an employee and/or contractor that required hospitalization (admitted for treatment) during the evaluation period?
3. Did the location experience an employee and/or contractor recordable injury where any of the following caused or contributed to the injury during the evaluation year?
- Failure to isolate hazardous energy
- Opening process equipment improperly prepared for maintenance
- Improperly prepared or hazardous confined space
- Improperly prepared or hazardous excavation
- Any falls from height (>4 feet)
- Any Tier 1 or 2 PSE
- Contact /exposure to hazardous materials
- Crane or rigging failure
- Caught by machinery or struck by debris, equipment, or falling objects
- Electrical work or hot work on equipment not verified as hydrocarbon free
- Failure to verify work permit
- Failure in PPE chosen for the task or the incorrect PPE for the task
- Use of the correct tool incorrectly or use of incorrect tool for the task
- Deliberately bypassing safeguards or interlocks
- No community evacuation or sheltering event
4. Did the location experience a community evacuation or sheltering event during the evaluation period?
5. 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?
