VolunteerismRead about Valero employees' contributions and donatons in the communities where Valero has operations. |
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Valero's Port Arthur Refinery received a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) achievement award recognizing its wastewater-sludge recycling success as a participant in the agency's National Partnership for Environmental Priorities (NPEP) program. The plant recovered and recycled more than 95,000 pounds of the hydrocarbon naphthalene, exceeding its goal of 60,000 pounds, from residual material that previously was disposed off-site.
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Valero’s Memphis Refinery earned the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry Award for Outstanding Environmental Accomplishments three consecutive years – including recognition for hazardous-waste and air-quality management.
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The Valero Houston Refinery was recognized with the Valero Chairman's Environmental Award for 2009 by reducing its number of environmental incidents by a dramatic 73 percent from 2008. In addition, the refinery had not had an acid-gas flaring incident in more than two years, and had achieved an 85 percent reduction in emissions since 2003.
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- Valero has earned OSHA's highest plant safety certification, "Star Site" status, under the agency's Voluntary Protection Program for 10 refineries, representing more than one-third of all refinery sites nationally. Since entering the program in 2001, Valero has reduced injury rates by 60 percent.
- Valero's Corpus Christi Asphalt Terminal and San Antonio Aviation Department also have received Star designations.
- Twenty-four of Valero's refinery contractors were Star Site-certified at the end of 2009.
- While Valero's Jean Gaulin Refinery in Quebec is not subject to OSHA regulation, it earned an internal "VPP Star" after passing a first-of-its-kind, VPP-style audit by an independent team of professionals trained by OSHA and with a total of 50 VPP audits among its members.
- In rail safety, five major rail companies, including CSX Transportation, Union Pacific, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Norfolk Southern and Canadian National, have recognized Valero with prestigious safety awards for two consecutive years.
- All of Valero's U.S. refineries for 2008 won at least one safety award from the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association (NPRA), which recognizes refineries for going the longest periods without employee-lost-workday injuries, reducing recordable injuries and maintaining low injury incidence rates.
- The Valero Bill Greehey Refinery complex in Corpus Christi, Texas (East and West plants), won the Valero Chairman's Safety Award for 2009 by recording no employee injuries, and for its work on process safety management. Both plants are Star Sites under OSHA's VPP program, and seven of its contractors were VPP-certified at the end of 2009.
- Houston Zone 201 won the Valero Chairman's Retail safety award for 2009 by achieving a recordable-injury rate of 2.81 (compared to an industry average of more than 4.0) and a 0.35 lost-time injury rate.
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- For nine consecutive years, Valero ranked among the nation's best employers on Fortune magazine’s listing of the 100 Best Companies to Work For.
- Valero ranked No. 1 on Fortune magazine's listing of the nation's Best Big Companies to Work For two consecutive years.
- Valero has ranked No. 5 among petroleum refining companies on Fortune magazine's listing of America’s Most Admired Companies and No. 7 in that same category of Fortune’s Global Most Admired Companies.
- The company was selected as one of the 2007 10 Best Corporate Citizens in the energy industry by Corporate Responsibility Officer magazine.
- Valero's Retail operation won a 2009 Outstanding Technology Implementation Award from Convenience Store News, recognizing its swift and successful technology integration of 62 former Albertson's convenience stores into its network.
- Convenience Store/Petroleum magazine honored Valero as Outstanding Employer in 2008. The company also was named 2006 Convenience Store Chain of the Year by Convenience Store Decisions magazine.
- Ultramar Ltd., Valero’s Canadian arm, has been named one of Canada's 50 Best Employers for four years by human resources firm Hewitt Associates.
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Valero knows that being a good operator also means being a good neighbor. The company demonstrates that through a variety of philanthropic efforts, volunteer activities and educational support programs, including its recent donations to Feed the Children. |
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Read The Valero Way and learn about the company’s vision for responsible business. |
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