The company’s concern for safety extends to its employees’ families and the communities in which it operates, and many company locations have safety outreach programs.
For example, employees in Ponca City, Oklahoma, have created an Off-the-Job Safety Committee (OTJSC) to promote individual value for a safe lifestyle to reduce off-the-job incidents and perpetuate the understanding and practice of safety procedures for all employees and their families.
Some of the activities the committee undertakes include:
- A Safety Store that provides safety items to employees and retirees at cost
- Safety tips in employee newsletters
- “Lunch and Learn” brown bag sessions – professional emergency responders in the community present updates/changes to emergency plans (including environmental shelter-in-place) for the Ponca City area
- Safety presentations by OTJSC members given at local schools
- A week-long Summer Safety Day Camp for employees’ children
- Partnering with Oklahoma Safe Kids Coalition and other local agencies to check the safety of Children’s car seats and distribute information on child passenger safety
- Distributing bicycle safety information along with bicycle helmets for National Safe Kids Week
- Conducting boating safety classes that are open to the community
- Providing information to employees on home fire escape planning and fire safety during National Fire Prevention week
- Displaying eye protection items from the Safety Store and distributing information about saving vision during Save Your Vision week
- Talk-back television – continuous loop safety presentations are displayed on various monitors around the Ponca City complex, including the refinery
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