2025 Valero Report on Guiding Principles - Flipbook - Page 22
2024 Safety Awards
Valero Chairman’s Awards
Valero Memphis Re昀椀nery - The Valero
Chairman's Safety Award recognizes the
achievements of a site with the highest
level of occupational and process safety
performance. Notable achievements
by the Valero Memphis Refinery
include zero recordable employee or
contractor injuries and zero Tier 1 process
safety incidents. The refinery had zero
contractor injuries for the past four years
and VPP Star site status since 2017.
Valero Hartley Ethanol Plant - The
Chairman's Award for Excellence in
Renewables was awarded to the plant that
demonstrated outstanding performance
in all areas of operations, including safety,
environmental, reliability and community
involvement. As a six-time winner, this
plant demonstrates excellence on all levels.
Accomplishments made by the plant in
2024 include:
• No employee or contractor recordable
injuries in over four years
• No Tier 1 process safety events in over
seven years
• No scorecard reliability events in over
11 years
• No environmental scorecard events in
over 13 years
Valero Texas City Re昀椀nery - The Valero
Chairman's Re昀椀nery Reliability Award
is determined primarily by the refinery’s
ability to maintain safe, stable and reliable
operations over the course of the year; and
over a longer period of time, the ability of the
refinery to plan and execute cost-effective
maintenance and turnaround activities. The
Texas City refinery only had one stewardable
outage in 2024. In non-turnaround downtime,
the refinery has performed well within the
industry’s top quartile for the past five 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 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.
• Three 2024 Elite Gold Awards – Awarded to the Valero
Houston, Memphis and Three Rivers re昀椀neries.
• Three 2024 Elite Silver Awards – Awarded to the Valero
Wilmington Asphalt Plant, and the Meraux and Texas City
re昀椀neries.
Safety Achievement Award
• Nine 2024 Safety Achievement Awards – Awarded to the
Valero Ardmore, Benicia, Houston, McKee, Memphis, Meraux,
Texas City and Three Rivers re昀椀neries, and the 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.
• VPP equivalent assessment and internal approval: Valero's
international re昀椀neries, Pembroke and Quebec.
In 2023, the Valero Wilmington Asphalt Plant entered into a
cooperative program with Cal/OSHA30 called Cal/Reach that is
designed to assist the site in becoming a VPP Star Site.
Majority of re昀椀neries are designated as VPP Star
Sites by OSHA, recognizing exemplary occupational
safety, process safety and health programs.
