Baton Rouge area - Safety and health

The safety of our employees, contractors, visitors and the surrounding community is the key value at ExxonMobil. We believe that no business objective is so important that it will be pursued at the sacrifice of safety. In short, a job is well done only if it is done safely. 

We strive for an incident-free workplace and a culture that complies with our clear and simple objective: Nobody Gets Hurt. It is a vision through which our employees and contractors accept personal accountability for their own safety, and are willing to intervene to ensure the safety of all.

The safety of our employees, contractors, visitors and the surrounding community is the key value at ExxonMobil. We believe that no business objective is so important that it will be pursued at the sacrifice of safety. In short, a job is well done only if it is done safely. 

We strive for an incident-free workplace and a culture that complies with our clear and simple objective: Nobody Gets Hurt. It is a vision through which our employees and contractors accept personal accountability for their own safety, and are willing to intervene to ensure the safety of all.

In 2009, ExxonMobil Baton Rouge began to integrate the Loss Prevention System (LPS) safety program into employee and contractor work processes. LPS is a system to prevent or reduce losses using behavior-based tools and proven management techniques.

Along with LPS, long standing committees like the Joint Health and Safety Committee, Department Safety Committees, and others meet regularly to discuss safety and heath issues of general interest.  Several audit and observation programs exist to identify and mitigate hazards.  Committed involvement with these committees and audit and observation programs ensure the goal of Nobody Gets Hurt.

OSHA's Voluntary Protection Program (VPP)
We realize that participation in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) Safety Through Accountability and Recognition (STAR) program is key to increasing employee involvement in safety. Through this joint effort between the U.S. government, the industry and unions, every employee and contractor is actively engaged in looking after the safety of all.

• In 1999, the Baton Rouge Plastics Plant was certified as an OSHA VPP STAR site and was recertified in 2002. In 2003, the site received the Star of Excellence award; in 2004, it was named Region VI VPP Star Among Stars facility; and in 2005, it received Region VI VPP Super Star Among Stars award.
• The Port Allen Lubricants Plant and ExxonMobil Process Research Laboratories at the Baton Rouge Refinery were certified as OSHA VPP STAR facilities in 2006.