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Tuesday, January 26, 2021–PCAC’s 30th Anniversary
Review of PCAC’s history and its mission and purposes
Read MoreThursday, August 27, 2020– CANCELLED Recent and Upcoming Technology to Improve the Safety of Truck Transportation of Plant Raw Materials and Products. (Video Conference)
Update on technology of the last 5 years and possible improvements in the next 5 years on the safety of transporting raw materials into plants and products out of the plant. Frank Scheaffer of Heniff Transportation will speak.
Read MoreTuesday, May 26, 2020: An Interim Report: How Has COVID-19 Affected Your Plant? What Lessons Have You Learned So Far (Video Conference)
2 minutes from each plant, focusing on Lessons Learned that are affecting what you are doing now and how you will plan for future pandemic interruptions or other hopefully rare situations. Lessons Learned include what is working and should be repeated and where improvements are needed. COVID-19 is not over, but enough months have passed…
Read MoreTuesday, April 28, 2020: Chemical Industry Hurricane Preparedness Video Conference
Chemical Industry Hurricane Preparedness Michael Shirey of Oxy Vinyls Pasadena will describe how the chemical industry prepares for hurricanes. Topics will include priorities, hazards, facility protective measures, construction, planning, storm modeling, preparation before the storm, preparation when the storm is in the Gulf, preparation when landfall is predicted, storm forecasting, operations, industry status board, monitoring,…
Read MoreTuesday, January 28, 2020: Industry Impacts on the Community
Jobs, Taxes, and Community Relations Programs PCAC members often focus their meetings on environmental, safety, transportation, and emergency issues relating to the major industrial facilities in Pasadena. In January 2020, the group chose to look at positive aspects of the community’s plants, namely jobs, community relations programs, and taxes. Consideration of taxes led the group…
Read MoreThursday, March 28, 2019 – Tour of Houston Area Safety Council
This meeting will be held at the Houston Area Safety Council for a presentation about what HASC does to train contractors, a tour of the facilities, and some demonstrations of innovative training. PCAC will tour training areas, classrooms, testing areas, and medical facilities, and view craft training demonstrations such as rigging and virtual reality…
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,…
Read MoreTuesday, January 22, 2019 – Transportation of Chemicals by Rail
Union Pacific (UP) representatives Richard Zientek, Tim O’Brien, and Tyler Parker will talk about UP’s role in the transportation of chemicals made in area plants. Kirk Higbie will talk about the Port Terminal Railroad Association’s role. Members are interested in what chemicals are transported via the railroad and what the railroads know about them as…
Read MoreThursday, November 29, 2018 – Tour of Pasadena ISD’s Dr. Kirk Lewis Career and Technical High School
PCAC members and guests were treated to an overview and tour of Pasadena Independent School District’s Dr. Kirk Lewis Career and Technical High School (CTHS). PCAC members previously toured the school in March 2015. Since then the school has grown from 900 to 1600 students. Dianes Barnes, Career and Community Coordinator for CTHS, said the…
Read MoreTuesday, October 23, 2018 – Annual Report on Emissions from PCAC Plants. Air Quality Trends
Jeff Nickl of Chevron Phillips presented the annual report on PCAC plant emissions. (PCAC plants rotate serving as the presenter.) The annual report derives its data from two annual inventories: the Air Emissions Inventory (EI), which plants submit to the TCEQ, and the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), which plants submit to the EPA. Highlights of…
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