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NPRA recognizes Safway Services with safety awards

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Safway received eleven Meritorious Safety Performance Awards.
The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) presented Safway Services, LLC with 11 Meritorious Safety Performance Awards at the 2011 NPRA Safety Awards Banquet, held May 11 at the Omni Fort Worth Hotel in Fort Worth, Texas.

“To receive 11 safety awards for our work at 11 different facilities by a national organization like NPRA is an incredible honor,” Steve Wilson, Safway’s VP of Refining and Petrochemicals, said. “It further exemplifies the emphasis that Safway places on a safe work environment on our jobsites.”

Safway received the following Meritorious Safety Performance Awards:
  • Safway Services, LLC at Bayport Choate Plant of LyondellBasell Industries - 0.0 Total Recordable Incidence Rate (TRIR) in 50,060 hours worked in 2010
  • Safway Services, LLC at BP Cherry Point Refinery - 0.0 TRIR in 158,333 hours worked in 2010
  • Safway Services, LLC at Bayou Works of INEOS - 0.0 TRIR in 3,385 hours worked in 2010
  • Safway Services, LLC at Corpus Christi Complex of Flint Hills Resources, LP - 0.0 TRIR in 69,697 hours worked in 2010
  • Safway Services, LLC at Corpus Christi Complex of LyondellBasell Industries - 0.0 TRIR in 29,860 hours worked in 2010
  • Safway Services, LLC at Port Arthur Refinery of Motiva Enterprises, LLC - 0.0 TRIR in 23,145 hours worked in 2010
  • Safway Services, LLC at Port Arthur Refinery of TOTAL PETROCHEMICALS USA, INC - 0.0 TRIR in 190 hours worked in 2010
  • Safway Services, LLC at Puget Sound Refinery of Shell Oil Products US - 0.0 TRIR in 50,222 hours worked in 2010
  • Safway Services, LLC at Texas City Plant of Union Carbide Corporation - 0.0 TRIR in 159,684 hours worked in 2010
  • Safway Services, LLC at Wood River Refinery of ConocoPhillips - 0.0 TRIR in 295,292 hours worked in 2010
  • Safway Services, LLC at WRB Refining, LLC, Borger Refinery of ConocoPhillips - 0.0 TRIR in 148,446 hours worked in 2010
The NPRA Safety Awards Program is part of a comprehensive safety program developed by NPRA’s Safety and Health Committee to promote accident prevention in petroleum refining and petrochemical manufacturing industries, as well as the contractors supporting them. Additionally, the program exists to publicly recognize those facilities that, for the previous year, have achieved a high safety standard in their daily operations.
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