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21
2014 Summary Annual Report
Iowa, location was honored by the Iowa-
Illinois Safety Council; and the Welcome,
Minn., site accepted a Governor’s Safety
Award from the Minnesota Safety Council.
yValero Renewables-Hartley in Iowa
completed three years without a recordable
injury, and has recorded no Tier 1 process
safety, reliability or rail safety incidents in its
history.
Reliability drives safe and protable operations.
Seven of Valero’s reneries are in the highest
quartile of the industry in mechanical availability,
a key indicator of reliability reecting the
percentage of time units are available to run.
Valero initiated new reliability programs
beginning in the mid-2000s, and has made
signicant gains in all operations benchmarks
– including also controlling maintenance costs,
cutting energy use and lowering non-energy
expense.
A reliable operation also improves
environmental performance. Valero’s total
environmental “scorecard” incidents, such as
unplanned releases and spills, continued at
near-historical lows.