September is Preparedness Month

Nothing is more important than keeping our employees, contractors and our community safe. Everyone receives safety training from their first day on the job onward.

We maintain all our own in-plant fire, hazmat, medical and oil spill response teams with modern equipment and have roughly 145 employees who are trained to respond to industrial fires and other emergencies.

Regularly scheduled maintenance helps make sure equipment is in great shape in case it is needed. In this photo, crews reel out and inspect a portable boom in Guemes Channel from Curtis Wharf in June 2020.

Regularly scheduled drills allow PSR crews to learn and refresh skills they would need during an actual emergency. During this July 2020 drill off the eastern edge of Guemes Island, PSR’s oil spill response crew teamed up with Marine Spill Response Corporation to test their hypothetical response, equipment and geographic response strategies.

Since 2015, PSR has invested approximately $200 million in personal and process safety improvements across the refinery.

Our safety program includes regular training sessions and continual review of our processes to help ensure that our workers, our neighbors and the environment are safe.