2025 Valero Report on Guiding Principles - Flipbook - Page 23
Introduction
Safety
Environment
Community
People
Governance
Appendix
Goal Zero Safety Program
Our Goal Zero program is designed to eliminate incidents and injuries in six focus areas by taking a data-driven riskbased approach. The program utilizes comprehensive incident reporting data and evaluates each incident against
the AFPM Personal Safety Incident Matrix, tailored for the re昀椀ning industry. This matrix classi昀椀es incidents according to
their potential outcomes, injury type/consequence and activity/cause contributing factors. Each of our Valero sites
establishes goals and objectives aligned with each of the Goal Zero’s six focus areas.
• Reducing Health
Hazards such as:
• Lock-out, Tag-out (LOTO) and
Blinding
• H 2S
• Chemical Contact
• Heat Exposure
• Inhalation Hazards
• Low Oxygen
• Energy Isolation Lists/Energy
Isolation Plans
• Impact/Cut-Resistant Gloves
• Enhanced Job Hazard
Analysis (JHA), Permitting and
Assessment Tools
• Pre-Job Hand Hazard
Evaluation
• Assessments and Inspection
for Hand Power Tools
• Focused Worksite Assessments
• Mechanical Integrity
Inspections (walking-working
surfaces)
• Bleeder Management
• Self-Retracting Lanyards (SRLs)
• Zero Energy Veri昀椀cation
• Area Housekeeping
Accountability
• Equipment Clearing to
Return to Service
Personnel
Exposure
• 360 Walk-Arounds
Energy Isolation
and Control
• Re昀椀nery Vehicle
Management
• Walking/Working Surfaces and
Slips, Trips and Falls Reduction
Management Plan
Hand Awareness
and Safety
Slips, Trips and
Falls
• Management/Incident
Accountability Meetings
• Training Quali昀椀cation
Veri昀椀cation
• Maintenance Planning
for Elevated Work
• Tool Tethering
• Barricades/Mesh/
Canopies
Dropped
Objects
Heavy Equipment/
Vehicle Operations
Life-Saving Rules
To ensure full compliance with our
safety policies and procedures,
Valero implemented Life-Saving
Rules – seven, long-standing
critical rules that must be followed
at all times.
Any violation of a Life-Saving Rule will result in the
most serious levels of discipline. By undergoing
comprehensive training, realistic 昀椀eld exercises
and adhering to these critical rules in day-to-day
operations, our employees and contractors make
Valero a place where we can all feel proud and
safe coming to work every day.
• Lifting Equipment
Upgrades
• Enhanced JHA,
Permitting and
Assessment Tools
1
Work with a valid permit when required.
2
Verify energy isolation before
beginning work.
3
Obtain authorization before entering a
con昀椀ned space.
4
Obtain authorization before overriding or
bypassing a safety system.
5
Use speci昀椀ed life-protection equipment.
6
Protect yourself against a fall when
working at heights.
7
Smoke in designated smoking areas only.
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