TIMEC employee selected for Chevron safety program

TIMEC’s Site Manager Tom Vogelpohl was the only contractor from the Chevron Richmond, CA facility selected to participate in its Contractor HES Management Process (CHESM).

The producer said the training’s goal is to broaden Chevron’s Incident-and-Injury-Free (IIF) scope to more closely involve contractor companies. The training emphasized safety, reliability and cost management through a proactive approach instead of a reactive approach, Vogelpohl said. “Through a proactive audit of the work performed, you are encouraged to go back to your team and detail things they did well and things they can improve,” he added.

Chevron said CHESM provides a framework of Chevron best practices, with the intent to work only with those vendors that provide the best performance in terms of safety, timeliness and cost. Most of the Chevron facilities have a part of the CHESM process in place. At the Richmond, CA site, the process will be rolled out in January 2008.

Vogelpohl emphasized that the safety culture ingrained in every TIMEC employee has contributed to this outcome and he pointed out that the CHESM process “is all about going home each and every day safe to our families.”

Tom Vogelpohl has been working as Site Manager for TIMEC at the Richmond refinery for 10 years.