Safety
Batken Petroleum Refinery employees maintain regular contact with state and local agencies and work with them to conduct emergency drills. In addition to equipping and training our on-site response teams, we also support our communitiesโ ability to respond to emergencies.
Valuing Health and Wellness
We value the health and wellness of our employees, retirees, and their families. Health and wellness resources that both inform and educate are available companywide. Taking advantage of them heightens awareness and assists in maintaining and improving health. Ultimately, it leads to a healthier, safer workplace.
The company’s Industrial Hygiene Standards provide systems for identifying and addressing employee exposures to chemical, physical, biological and other hazards through elimination, engineering controls, work practice controls, personal protective equipment and monitoring. Health, Environment, Safety and Security policies and standards cover health programs for all aspects of these hazards.
Process Safety
process safety means that our pipes, tanks, processing units, valves and other hardware all work as intended to keep hazardous materials contained. We manage our process safety risks proactively by continuously improving our process safety management systems (e.g., mechanical integrity program, management of change, safe work practices, operating procedures, etc.) and by maintaining a rigorous process safety risk assessment process to identify risks and implement the appropriate safeguards (e.g., alarms, automated shutoff systems, relief devices, etc.).
Emergency Preparedness
Robust preparedness enables us to respond effectively should an emergency event occur. Consistently investing in our response capabilities equips us to mitigate and manage the impact to the environment and people in the event of an incident. All our operating locations have emergency response teams assigned and site-speci๏ฌc emergency preparedness and response plans tailored to the risks they may encounter. These location-speci๏ฌc plans are subject to regular drills to test proper execution in the event of an actual incident. It comprises of approximately 250 employees with response expertise and training in the Incident Command System (ICS), should an emergency event occur.
Life Critical Expectations
Our greatest focus is protecting and preserving the well-being of all these great people. Our goal is an incident-free, injury-free workplace. We want everyone who comes to our sites to go home at the end of the workday in the same shape as they came. We are committed to creating a safe environment and work diligently to prevent incidents and injuries throughout all operations. We focus on continually improving our safety management systems and compliance programs by engaging our employee and contractor workforce via training, behavior-based safety programs, contractor safety councils, and sharing best practices and lessons learned.
We partner with our communities to make us all safer
We work closely in conjunction with them to conduct joint emergency drills and training. In addition,Batken Oil employees maintain regular contact with state and local agencies and work with them to conduct emergency drills. In addition to equipping and training our on-site response teams, we also support our communitiesโ ability to respond to emergencies.We promote a culture of continual safety improvement with a keen eye for evaluating and managing risk to ensure our implementation of programs, policy and procedures all contribute to the secure and successful delivery of energy to our customers.
