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2022 TCC/ACIT AWARD WINNERS

CARING FOR TEXAS AWARDS

The objective of the TCC Caring for Texas awards program is to promote continuous improvement by the chemical industry in community awareness, emergency response, security, and pollution prevention. The program provides recognition for member facilities that, during the previous calendar year, have achieved exemplary results and demonstrated a strong commitment to their employees and their community.

Group One - facilities with fewer than 60 employees

Dow – La Porte Operations

INEOS Oligomers – La Porte

Kuraray America Elastomers – Pasadena

Lubrizol – La Porte

Nouryon Surface Chemistry – Fort Worth

OxyChem – Dallas

OQ Chemicals – Bishop

Pure Salt Baytown – Mont Belvieu

Sekisui Specialty Chemicals – Pasadena

 

Group Two - facilities with 61 to 200 employees

ChampionX - Odessa

Chemours – La Porte

Chevron Phillips - Kingwood Research & Technology Center

Chevron Phillips - Orange

Dow – Texas City Operations

Eastman - Texas City

INEOS Oligomers – Chocolate Bayou-Alvin

INVISTA - Longview

Kuraray America EVAL – Pasadena

Lubrizol - Bayport

Nouryon Surface Chemistry – Houston

OQ Chemicals – Bay City

OxyChem - Deer Park VCM

OxyVinyls - La Porte VCM

OxyVinyls - Pasadena PVC

OxyVinyls - Battleground

SI Group – Freeport

Solvay Specialty Polymers – Borger

TPC Group – Port Neches

 

Group Three - facilities with 201 to 500 employees

BASF – Port Arthur

Chevron Phillips - Pasadena Plastics Complex

Chevron Phillips - Port Arthur

           Dow – Deer Park Operations

        INVISTA - Victoria

Kaneka North America – Pasadena

TotalEnergies Petrochemicals & Refining – La Porte

 

Group Four - facilities with more than 500 employees

Chevron Phillips - Cedar Bayou

Dow – Seadrift Operations

Dow – Texas Operations - Freeport

ExxonMobil - Baytown

INEOS Olefins and Polymers – Chocolate Bayou


Excellence In Caring for Texas Awards

 

Group Two

Nouryon Functional Chemicals - Pasadena

Nouryon Functional Chemicals - Battleground

Mitsubishi Chemical – SoranoL Division La Porte

 

Group Three

Chevron Phillips Chemical – Borger

 

Group Four

Formosa Plastics – Point Comfort

 


Sustained  Excellence In Caring For Texas Award

 

Group One

Pure Salt – Baytown

Underground Services Markham – Clemville

Group Three

Chemours – Ingleside

Group Four

Ascend Performance Materials – Chocolate Bayou

BASF – Freeport

Chevron Phillips – Sweeny, Clemens and Old Ocean

Eastman – Texas Operations – Longview

Olin Corporation – Texas Operations – Freeport


SAFETY AWARDS

The TCC Safety Awards program was established by the TCC Board of Directors to promote the continual improvement of safety performance by TCC member companies. The Safety Awards Program is intended to achieve this objective by providing recognition for TCC members and member facilities who, during the previous calendar year, have both achieved exemplary results and demonstrated commitment to safe operations through implementation and continuous improvement of safety-related programs.  Qualifying sites and individual applicants must be active TCC members in good standing having paid dues and meeting all the requirements of membership in accordance with the TCC Bylaws.  The Safety Awards are administered by the Occupational Safety Committee and the OSC Awards Subcommittee.

Zero Incident Rate  - Employee Awards

This award recognizes those facilities with a Zero Incident Rate; meaning they did not have an employee OSHA recordable injury or illness in 2021.

 

Group One 

Dow – La Porte Operations

INEOS Oligomers – La Porte

Kuraray America Elastomers - Pasadena

Lubrizol – La Porte

Nouryon Surface Chemistry – Fort Worth

OQ Chemicals - Bishop

Pure Salt Baytown – Mont Belvieu

SI Group – Baytown

TotalEnergies Petrochemicals & Refining – Beaumont 

 

Group Two

Ashland – Texas City

INEOS Oligomers – Chocolate Bayou-Alvin

Kuraray America EVAL – Pasadena

Mitsubishi Chemical – SoranoL Division – La Porte

Nouryon Functional Chemicals – Pasadena

Nouryon Functional Chemicals – Battleground

Nouryon Surface Chemistry – Houston

OxyChem – Deer Park PVC/KOH

OxyVinyls - Battleground

Sasol Chemicals – Greens Bayou

Sasol Chemicals – Winnie

Solvay Specialty Polymers – Borger 

 

Group Three

Chemours – Ingleside

Chevron Phillips – Borger

INEOS Olefins & Polymers – Battleground

 

Group Four

Celanese – Clear Lake


Zero Incident rate  - contractor Awards

This award recognizes those facilities with a Zero Contractor Incident Rate at their facility in 2021.

Group One

Dow – La Porte Operations

             INEOS Oligomers – La Porte

Kuraray America Elastomers – Pasadena

Lubrizol – La Porte

Nouryon Surface Chemistry – Fort Worth

OQ Chemicals – Bishop

Pure Salt Baytown – Mont Belvieu

SI Group – Baytown

TotalEnergies Petrochemicals & Refining – Beaumont   

 

Group Two

Afton Chemical – Houston

Chemours – La Porte

Dow – Texas City

INEOS Oligomers – Chocolate Bayou - Alvin

Kuraray America – Bayport

Mitsubishi Chemical – SoarnoL Division – La Porte

Nouryon Functional Chemicals – Pasadena

Nouryon Functional Chemicals – Battleground

Nouryon Surface Chemistry – Houston

OxyChem – Deer Park PVC/KOH

OQ Chemicals – Bay City

OxyChem – Deer Park VCM

OxyVinyls – Pasadena PVC

OxyVinyls – Battleground

Sasol Chemicals – Greens Bayou

Sasol Chemicals – Winnie

SI Group – Freeport

Solvay Specialty Polymers – Borger

 

Group Three

Chemours – Ingleside

Chevron Phillips - Borger

Chevron Phillips – Pasadena Plastics Complex

INEOS Olefins & Polymers – Battleground

INVISTA – Victoria

 

Group Four

Celanese – Clear Lake


Occupational Safety Distinguished Service Awards

These Awards are presented to those facilities that have met the Occupational Safety Committee participation requirements by attending at least 3 of the quarterly Occupational Safety Committee or Subcommittee meetings during the course of the year and have demonstrated improvement in their injury and illness incident rate for 2021 when compared to the previous 3 years.

Group One

Dow – La Porte

INEOS Oligomers – La Porte

Kuraray America Elastomers – Pasadena

Nouryon Surface Chemistry – Fort Worth

OQ Chemicals – Bishop

Pure Salt Baytown – Mont Belvieu

SI Group – Baytown

 

Group Two

Afton Chemical – Houston

BASF – Bishop

Dow – Texas City

INEOS Oligomers – Chocolate Bayou-Alvin

Kuraray America EVAL – Pasadena

Mitsubishi Chemical – SoarnoL Division - La Porte

Nouryon Functional Chemicals – Pasadena

OxyChem – Deer Park PVC/KOH

OQ Chemicals – Bay City

OxyVinyls – Battleground

Sasol Chemicals – Greens Bayou

Sasol Chemicals – Winnie

 

Group Three

Chemours – Ingleside

Chevron Phillips – Pasadena Plastics Complex

Dow – Deer Park

ExxonMobil – Mont Belvieu

INEOS Olefins & Polymers - Battleground

INVISTA – Victoria

OxyChem – La Porte VCM

 

Group Four

Ascend Performance Materials – Chocolate Bayou

Celanese – Clear Lake

Eastman – Texas Operations - Longview

ExxonMobil – Baytown

Formosa Plastics – Point Comfort, and

LyondellBasell – Channelview

Olin – Texas Operations – Freeport


Best In Texas Awards

The ‘Best in Texas’ Awards are presented to the top facilities within each group that meet the criteria for Distinguished Safety Service and maintain a contractor safety program under TCC’s recommended guidelines for Contractor Safety. These applications are peer-reviewed by members of the OSC Awards Subcommittee who judge applications in different categories than their own.

Group One

Dow – La Porte Operations

 

Group Two

Mitsubishi Chemical – SoarnoL Division – La Porte

 

Group Three

Chevron Phillips – Pasadena Plastics Complex

 

Group Four

Covestro – Baytown

 


ACIT REGIONAL MEMBER OF THE YEAR AWARDS

Each year, ACIT recognizes a Member of the Year from among our four active ACIT regions. The recipient may be an individual who has exhibited extraordinary dedication to ACIT in their Region. Nominees are considered from each region and a winner is selected by the ACIT Board of Directors. These individuals volunteer countless hours in planning and organizing ACIT events and recruiting new members in their region.  This Award is presented to both the individuals and to their companies who show their support for ACIT by allowing them to actively participate in ACIT.

Region 1 - Houston Ship Channel Region 

Crystal Cedro with ThinkReliability

 

Region 2 - Mid Coast Region

Greg Copeland with Tolunay-Wong Engineers

 

Region 4 - South Texas Region

David Cook with Mirage Industrial Group


ACIT LEADERSHIP AWARD

The ACIT Leadership Award was established by the ACIT Board of Directors to recognize an owner company or organization that has demonstrated strong leadership within ACIT and contributed to the success of our organization.

2022 ACIT Leadership Award

Coastal Ice & Water


PROCESS SAFETY AWARDS

  SAM MANNAN AWARD FOR ZERO PROCESS SAFETY INCIDENTS

Dr. Sam Mannan was the founding Director of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University for many years.  Unfortunately, Dr. Mannan passed away in 2018.  He was passionate about process safety and was committed to driving continuous improvement and preventing incidents. The TCC Board of Directors felt it fitting to honor his life’s work with the Dr. Sam Mannan Award for Zero Process Safety Incidents, recognizing facilities with no Tier 1 or Tier 2 incidents in 2021.

Group One

Air Liquide Large Industries – Beaumont LMA

Air Liquide Large Industries – Bloomington

Air Liquide Large Industries – Channelview

Air Liquide Large Industries – Freeport

Air Liquide Large Industries – Ingleside

Air Liquide Large Industries – La Porte

Air Liquide Large Industries – Nederland

Air Liquide Large Industries – Port Neches

Chemours – La Porte

Dow – La Porte

Ethyl Corporation – Houston

Goodyear – Houston

INEOS Oligomers – La Porte

Kuraray America Elastomers – Pasadena

Lubrizol Corporation – La Porte

Nouryon Surface Chemistry – Fort Worth

OQ Chemicals – Bishop

Pure Salt Baytown – Mont Belvieu

SI Group – Baytown

 

Group Two

Afton Chemical - Pasadena

Air Liquide Large Industries - Bayport

Arkema - Houston

BASF - Bishop          

Braskem – Oyster Creek

Braskem – Seadrift

Chevron Phillips - Orange

Dow – Texas City

INEOS Nitriles – Green Lake         

Kuraray America EVAL - Pasadena

Mitsubishi Chemical – La Porte

Nouryon Surface Chemistry – Houston

OxyChem – Deer Park PVC/KOH

OQ Chemicals – Bay City

OxyVinyls - Pasadena PVC

Sekisui Specialty Chemicals – Pasadena

TotalEnergies Petrochemicals & Refining - La Porte

 

Group Three 

 Celanese – Clear Lake

Chevron Phillips - Borger

Chevron Phillips - Pasadena Plastics Complex

Dow – Deer Park

 

Group Four

 ExxonMobil – Baytown

 INEOS Olefins & Polymers – Battleground


TEXAS A&M MARY KAY O’CONNOR PROCESS SAFETY CENTER AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED PROCESS SAFETY INITIATIVE

TCC has established a collaboration with the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University to utilize their global research and analysis of process safety incidents that can offer insights to industry in our pursuit of continuous improvement in process safety across industry. The Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center’s students and faculty judged submissions in each facility category. Eligible applicants had Zero Incident for 2021 and submitted an essay to describe their process safety initiatives.

Group One

 Dow Chemical – La Porte Operations

 

Group Two

 Nouryon Surface Chemistry – Houston

TotalEnergies Petrochemicals and Refining – La Porte

 

Group Three

Chevron Phillips Chemical – Borger

 

Group Four

INEOS Olefins and Polymers – Battleground


TCC/ACIT EHS LEADERSHIP AWARD

The Texas-Louisiana EHS Leadership Award recognizes the Chair of the EHS Committee for their dedication and leadership in improving safety and promoting best practices across our industry. The EHS Chair is nominated by industry peers from Texas and Louisiana to lead what has become the premiere environmental, health and safety conference in our industry. Consideration for this important leadership role typically requires several years of direct involvement with the EHS seminar as well as strong leadership and organizational skills.

2022 Texas-Louisiana EHS Leadership Award

Laura Burnett of Mitsubishi Chemical


GERALD R. EHRMAN AWARD FOR LEADERSHIP IN SAFETY MANAGEMENT

The Occupational Safety Committee established this award to recognize a special plant manager who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in Safety Management. The first recipient of this award was Jerry Ehrman of DuPont, who retired in 2007. Jerry served as Chairman of TCC from 2004 – 2005 and as Chairman of the Occupational Safety Committee from 1998 until his retirement in 2007.  Jerry was extremely dedicated to TCC, ACIT and the Occupational Safety Committee, and a strong supporter of the EHS Seminar. 

The committee decided that this award would be named in Jerry’s honor as the “Gerald R. Ehrman Award for Safety Management” and would only be given to a plant manager who embodies the same leadership and dedication to Safety Management that Mr. Ehrman exhibited throughout his many years of service to his company and to TCC.

2022 Gerald R. Ehrman Award

Greg Blanchard of Ascend Performance Materials in Alvin