Safety
Safety is Our Foundation
For Success
Safety means our workers go home every day to their families and our communities know we are dedicated to keeping them safe.
Tirelessly Focused on Safety
At Kooilspetroleum, we believe that safety and reliability are extremely important, not only for the protection of our employees and communities, and the cultural values we aspire to as a company, but also for operational success, as a decrease in the number of employee and process safety events should generally reduce unplanned shutdowns and increase the operational reliability of our refineries and plants.
This, in turn, should also translate into a safer workplace with fewer environmental incidents and stronger community relations.
We strive to improve safety and reliability performance by offering year-round safety training programs for our employees and contractors, and by seeking to promote the same expectations and culture of safety.
We also seek to enhance our safety performance by conducting safety audits, quality assurance visits, and comprehensive safety and risk assessments at our facilities.
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Emergency Management Planning Our company-wide emergency management process is designed to assess potential risks posed to our people and operations and implement solutions.
- Emergency response plans at each facility that comply with all local, state and federal regulations and are regularly updated with third-party assessments to ensure excellence.
- Certifying equipment and facilities are maintained in fully functional condition and are readily available along with trained personnel when needed for emergency response.
- Ensuring qualified emergency response teams with strong relationships with third-party response personnel are present on-site.
- Performing regular drills and assessments to promote response readiness and alignment with our Goal Zero program.
- Allocating critical capital resources to emergency planning and response in the strategic planning and capital budget processes to make our facilities efficient and resilient.
- Employing the use of emerging technologies to optimize decision-making and response execution.
STAR Metric
The STAR (Safety Tracking and Recognition) Metric is our safety program for our ethanol plants. This program recognizes top performing ethanol plants in five key areas:
- Process Safety
- Reliability
- Environmental
- Rail Safety
- Policy and Procedure Compliance
Each quarter we recognize plants achieving zero incidents in all five areas. Plants that go four consecutive quarters without an incident earn a Super STAR award.
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Goal Zero Safety Program
Our Goal Zero program is designed to eliminate incidents and injuries in six focus areas by taking a data-driven risk-based approach.
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Goal Zero Safety Program
Our Goal Zero program is designed to eliminate incidents and injuries in six focus areas by taking a data-driven risk based approach:
Safety Data Sheets
Safety data sheets provide, in a standard format, product safe use and handling information regarding potential hazards, and how to respond to emergencies.
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