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When it comes to operating safely, Flint Hills Resources strives to eliminate incidents and gives employees the decision rights to recommend improvements and stop potentially unsafe activities. This focus on safety extends beyond personal safety to process systems. Earning a place among the elite group of operators that have achieved U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration Voluntary Protection Program STAR status takes
steadfast commitment, attention and thorough training for all employees.
Milestones
Flint Hills Resources received the International Liquid Terminals Association's highest safety award for 2007 performance. The recognition not only honors the company's perfect safety year with no OSHA recordables or lost-time incidents but it also reflects a demonstrated commitment to sustaining a strong safety program and industry leadership. Four of the company's refined products terminals in Texas were the first in their industry to achieve Voluntary Protection Programs Star status from OSHA.
On Aug. 1, 2007, Flint Hills Resources Alaska’s North Pole Refinery employees surpassed 1 million hours without an incident or injury resulting in time away from work – setting a new plant record for working safely. The site worked all of 2007 without a recordable or lost-time injury.
Pine Bend refinery employees surpassed 2 million hours without an injury resulting in days away from work in December 2007.
Employees of Flint Hills Resources’ Corpus Christi refining complex surpassed seven years and 2,555 consecutive days without an incident or injury resulting in time away from work on Dec. 23, 2007. The previous complex safety record was 1,521 days.
Employees at the company’s Odessa Chemical Plant notched more than 1 million hours without an injury resulting in days away from work in September 2007. That site record of 343 days without a serious injury ended the following month.
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