"Safety is the way at ALON USA"

Safety Maintenance
A safe work environment is maintained through the daily consistent effort of all employees and contractors working at the various work locations. It involves understanding the proper work practices and procedures and then complying with those requirements. It involves an attitude that all injuries can and should be prevented. It is an understanding that all incidents have a root cause with contributing factors that need to be understood and corrected so similar incidents will not occur.

Safety Awards
Our Big Spring refinery has been recognized by the NPRA (National Petrochemical and Refiners Association) with the following awards:

2005

Meritorious Safety Performance: Earned a total recordable incidence rate of 0.97 in 2005.

Gold Award: Achieved a 25.4% reduction in the 2005 total recordable incidence rate in comparison to the average for the previous three years.

Award for Safety Achievement – Years: Completed more than three years without a lost-time injury.

Award for Safety Achievement – Hours: Worked 1, 267,729 hours without a lost time injury (10/23/02 – 12/31/05).

2004
Award for Safety Achievement: 1 year from 10/24/2003 to 10/23/2004 without a lost workday case involving days away from work.

2003
Gold Award: For a 40% reduction in the total recordable incidence rate during the calendar year 2003 as compared to the average total recordable incidence rate for the previous three calendar years.

Award for Meritorious Safety Performance:  For achieving a total recordable incident rate of 1.0 for calendar year 2003.

Award for Safety Achievement:   1 year from 10/23/2002 to 10/22/2003 without a lost workday case involving days away from work. 

2002
Gold Award: For a 34.46% reduction in the total recordable incidence rate during the calendar year 2002 as compared to the average total recordable incidence rate for the three previous years.

Award for Meritorious Safety Performance: For achieving a total recordable incidence rate of 1.40 for calendar year 2002.

Award for Safety Achievement: 1 Year from 7/12/2001 to 7/11/2002 without a lost workday case involving days away from work.

2001
Gold Award: For a 70.28% reduction in the total recordable incidence rate during the calendar year 2001 as compared to the average total recordable incidence rate for the three previous calendar years.

Award for Meritorious Safety Performance: For achieving a total recordable incident rate of .82 for calendar year 2001.

Award for Safety Achievement: 1 Year from 1/21/2000 to 1/20/2001 without a lost workday case involving days away from work.

NPRA Safety Awards are based on the records kept for employees in accordance with OSHA record keeping requirements as defined by law and entered in the OSHA 300A form.

Our Krotz Springs refinery has been designated an OSHA VPP Star-certified location since 2003.  This distinction has only been granted to 24 petroleum refineries in the continental United States and is a reflection of our refinery's safety performance and culture.  Additionally, our refinery consistently produces excellent safety results, including earning 8 National Petrochemical and Refining Association safety awards since 2002.

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