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BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (March 26, 2007) -- Today the ExxonMobil Baton Rouge
Polyolefins Plant received the Distinguished Safety Award (DSA), the highest
award given by the Association, for the fifth year in a row from the National
Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA). Since the NPRA safety awards
program began in 1982, no other company has received the award for five
consecutive years.
The Distinguished Safety Award is part of the NPRA’s comprehensive safety
program that promotes accident prevention in the petroleum refining and
petrochemical manufacturing industries and publicly recognizes excellence in
safety by industry leaders. Recipients of the DSA must pass a comprehensive
review of individual safety performance programs. To be considered for the
award, a location must achieve both an employee and contractor total
recordable incidence rate of 0.8 or less and have had no employee cases
involving days away from work for the applicable evaluation period.
“Safety is a fundamental value above all else,” said ExxonMobil Baton Rouge
Polyolefins Plant Manager, Rich Mohring. “This award recognizes those
facilities that have operated to the highest standard of excellence.”
The Baton Rouge Polyolefins Plant will be recognized at the annual NPRA
National Safety Conference on May 3, 2007, in The Woodlands, Texas. The
ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Refinery will also receive the Distinguished Safety
Award Honorable Mention at this same event.
The Baton Rouge Polyolefins Plant became an ExxonMobil facility in 1995 and
has a 1.6 billion pound capacity of high density polyethylene and 900 million
pounds of polypropylene for customer applications such as diapers, carpet
backing, fuel tanks, detergent bottles and milk jugs. The plant is an equal
opportunity employer, staffed by approximately 460 ExxonMobil full-time plant
and associated technology employees and 130 contract employees.
The Baton Rouge Polyolefins Plant currently has operated a 22-month period
without a single recordable injury.
About ExxonMobil Chemical
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leader in technology, product quality and customer service, with petrochemical
manufacturing and/or marketing operations around the world. To find out more
about ExxonMobil Chemical, visit
www.exxonmobilchemical.com.
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around the world.
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