Our Policies
At Sunoco, we believe that excellent performance in health, environment and safety (HES) is essential to achieving operations excellence and superior financial performance.

Sunoco issued our Principles of Health, Environment and Safety in 1993 when we became the first Fortune 500 company to endorse the Ceres Principles. The Sunoco HES Principles, adapted from the Ceres Principles, establish an environmental code of conduct for all of Sunoco's facilities and operations.

Sunoco is committed to being a responsible corporate citizen in all of our businesses and in the communities in which we operate. This requires continuous improvement in our HES performance as well as sensitivity and flexibility in our dealings with the public.

Over the past decade, we have made considerable progress in all areas of HES performance, but moving to the next level requires further changes in our workplace culture. Leading HES indicators and employee participation are key as are the development and use of comprehensive management systems. These initiatives are designed to drive improved performance by integrating health, safety and environmental performance with operations management.

Accountability
Accountability is a critical part of improving HES performance. Business unit leaders must review serious incidents at the monthly executive-level Corporate HES Committee meetings and provide the committee with quarterly HES performance reports. In addition, senior managers meet with their Senior Vice Presidents regularly to discuss critical HES issues.

The company's Success Sharing Program was revised in 2001 to require that certain HES performance targets be met. The program, in which both management and labor participate, establishes targets each year at the company, business unit and facility/entity levels. HES Success Sharing Modifiers are also reviewed and approved by the Board Compensation Committee to determine the impact on success sharing awards should HES performance be better/worse than the established target .

Responsibility
Sunoco's health, environment and safety performance is the shared responsibility of all Sunoco employees. The CEO of the company holds senior management and the business units accountable for the HES performance of the employees, operations and businesses under their control. Additionally, Commitment to Health, Environment, and Safety is one of the core competencies on which employees are evaluated.

Development of Sunoco's HES philosophy and strategic direction is vested in the Vice President, HES Regulatory Affairs, and the Chief Administrative Officer. Both executives have direct access to the CEO.

Corporate oversight for Sunoco's health, environment, and safety performance is provided by the executive-level Corporate Health, Environment and Safety Committee, chaired by the CAO, and the Corporate Responsibility Committee of the Board of Directors. HES performance programs are fostered under the guidance of the Director, HES Performance. Click here to see the HES oversight structure.

Chairman's Award for Excellence in Health, Environment and Safety Performance
The Chairman's Award for Excellence in Health, Environment and Safety performance for the year is distributed to business units and facilities for exemplary achievement across a wide range of HES areas such as occupational safety and health and the prevention of accidents, oil spills, fires, air permit exceedances, water permit exceedances and enforcement fines and penalties.

The The Chairman's Award signifies Sunoco's strong commitment to operational excellence and is given annually when there is a facility or business unit that has demonstrated HES excellence. Unfortunately in 2007, the overall HES performance of the individual facilities and business units did not merit the awarding of a Chairman’s Award.

Several facilities and a business segment did receive Meritorious Awards recognizing strong performance in one or more aspects of HES. These award recipients were:

Meritorious Award for Environmental Excellence:

Frankford Chemicals Plant

• 48% Reduction in Air Permit Exceedances
• 100% Reduction in Class I or II Spills for more than four years

Bayport Chemicals Plant

• No Class 1 and 2 spills for fourth consecutive year

Eagle Point Refinery

• 76% Reduction in Air Permit Exceedances
• Achieved 47% Reduction over previous best historical air exceedances performance

Meritorious Award for Safety Excellence

Marketing Retail Transportation

• OSHA Recordable Incident Rate of 1.10, a 21% reduction from 2006

Toledo Refinery

• Contractor OSHA Recordable Incident Rate of 0.17, a 73% reduction from 2006
• Achieved Best Historical Contractor Performance
• Achieved Top Quartile Contractor Performance

 Marcus Hook Refinery

• OSHA Recordable Incident Rate of 0.23, a 51% reduction
• Achieved Top Quartile Performance for the Fourth Consecutive Year

Neal Chemical Plant

• Top Quartile Employee Performance, Third Consecutive Year
• Three Consecutive Years without a Contractor Injury

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