Health and Safety
April 23, 2024 – Tour of OxyChem’s Emergency Operations Center
EARLY RSVP required and EARLY meeting start.
Read MoreMarch 26, 2024 – Annual Report on Worker Safety in PCAC Plants
Tuesday, March 28, 2023–Annual Report on Worker Safety in PCAC Plants
Tuesday, February 22, 2022: Annual Report on Worker Safety in CAC Plants
PCAC will collect and present OSHA recordable injury and illness data for PCAC plants, covering both employees and contractors. The report will contain details about each plant plus summaries showing the totals for all plants and the trends. We will discuss any patterns in the Type of Injuries and related best practices.
Read MoreThursday, December 2, 2021–Effects of Pollution on Health
Blythe Mansfield, MD, Chief Medical Officer for Unilever, NA, formerly of Kelsey Seybold Occupational Medicine, shared information about what air pollution is, kinds of exposure, and specifics about the EPA’s criteria pollutants, benzene, and 1-3, butadiene. She also described environmental and occupational causes of health problems and EPA’s proposed actions to advance environmental justice related…
Read MoreTuesday, February 23, 2021 – Annual Report on Worker Safety in PCAC Plants
PCAC presented the OSHA recordable injury and illness data for the 18 PCAC plants, covering both employees and contractors. The report contained details about each plant plus summaries showing the totals for all plants and the trends.
Read MoreTuesday, February 25, 2020: Annual Report on Worker Safety in PCAC Plants.
The 18th Annual Report on Worker Safety in the 18 Pasadena Citizens’ Advisory Council (PCAC) Plants was presented by facilitator Diane Sheridan, who emphasized that the numbers in the report tell the stories of people injured, and not injured, in PCAC plants. Following the presentation, each plant shared effective aspects of its safety program. PCAC…
Read MoreTuesday, February 26, 2019 – Annual Report on Worker Safety
Numbers told the story of Pasadena plant workers injured and not injured in 2018 when the Pasadena Citizens’ Advisory Council (PCAC) received its Annual Report on Worker Safety. Data that workplaces must keep for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) showed that last year was the third safest ever for the 18 CAC plants,…
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