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Baton Rouge area - safety and health
The safety of our employees, contractors, visitors and the surrounding community is the key value at ExxonMobil. We believe that no business objective is so important that it will be pursued at the sacrifice of safety. A job is well done only if it is done safely.
We strive for an incident-free workplace and a culture that complies with our clear and simple objective: Nobody Gets Hurt. It is a vision through which our employees and contractors accept personal accountability for their own safety, and are willing to intervene to ensure the safety of all.
U-TWO safety initiative (Union Total Workplace Observation) at the Refinery and the Chemical Plant is a voluntary observation process that results in workers looking out for each other. While performing a task, a person is encouraged to ask another worker to help identify safety hazards.
OSHA's Voluntary Protection Program (VPP)
We realize that participation in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) Safety Through Accountability and Recognition (STAR) program is key to increasing employee involvement in safety. Through this joint effort between the U.S. government, the industry and unions, every employee and contractor is actively engaged in looking after the safety of all.
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In 1999, the Baton Rouge Plastics Plant was certified as an OSHA VPP STAR site and was recertified in 2002. In 2003, the site received the Star of Excellence award; in 2004, it was named Region VI VPP Star Among Stars facility; and in 2005, it received Region VI VPP Super Star Among Stars award.
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Port Allen Lubricants Plant and ExxonMobil Process Research Laboratories at the Baton Rouge Refinery were certified as OSHA VPP STAR facilities in 2006.
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The Baton Rouge Refinery and the Chemical Plant are active members of the Voluntary Protection Program Participants Association and are seeking to obtain OSHA’s VPP STAR status.
