Adding Value to Your Community

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• Adding Value to Your Community
• 5800 One Perkins Place Drive, Suite 5-A
• Baton Rouge, LA 70808
• www.gbria.org Ph [phone] Fax (225)
  769-0289

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GBRIA Overview

• What, Who, Where, Why?
• How Do Members Add Value to My Community?
• Can I Work in Industry?
• Competitive Challenges
• Organization

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What is GBRIA?

• A Business League non-profit association made
  up of industrial managers and their employees
  from facilities in 8 parishes surrounding the
  Greater Baton Rouge area.
• Industrial/technical
• manufacturers, producers and
• RD organizations are eligible
• to join.
• Suppliers and Contractors may join technology
  exchanges promoting Safety, Health Security and
  Maintenance Engineering

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Who are We?

• Over 50 Facilities
• Chemicals
• Energy
• Paper
• Refining
• Air Liquide, Air Products, Albemarle, ALON
  Energy, Americas Styrenics, BASF, BP Lubricants,
  CF Industries, Criterion Catalysts, Deltech, Dow,
  DuPont, Exide Technologies, ExxonMobil, Ferro,
  Formosa, Georgia Gulf, Georgia Pacific, Hexion
  Specialty Chemicals, Honeywell, Ineos Fluor,
  Ineos Oxide, Innophos, Lion Chemicals, NRG
  Louisiana Generating, Marathon Petroleum, Mosaic
  Phosphates, Motiva Enterprises, Nalco, Olin
  Corporation, Oxbow Calcining, Oxychem, PCS
  Nitrogen, Placid Refining, Rhodia, Rubicon, Shell
  Chemical, Southern Ionics, Syngenta, Taminco,
  Total Petrochemicals, Williams Olefins

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Where are We?
Greater Baton Rouge

• St. John the Baptist
• St. James
• Iberville
• Ascension
• East Baton Rouge
• West Baton Rouge
• St. Landry
• Point Coupee

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Familiar Product Brands - They Start Right Here!
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Why GBRIA?

• History
• Since 1970, industrial managers came together
  to discuss issues of interest to industry
• GBRIA Mission
• Drive and coordinate sustainable cost effective
  solutions to common issues for industry, its
  affiliates and communities
• Strategic Objectives for 2007-2010
• Achieve injury incident free operations
• Ensure access to a competitive and skilled craft
  workforce
• Drive development of the long term sustainable
  model(s) for craft training
• Facilitate operational excellence through
  networking and exchanges
• Build support in the local community for
  sustainable development of our industries

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How Do GBRIA Members Add Value to My Community?

• Significant Economic Impact
• Providing Good Jobs
• Training Employees and
• Supporting Education
• Fostering a Healthy
• Environment
• Improving Safety
• Security
• Supporting Health Care Reform
• Making Charitable Donations
• Involvement in the Community

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How Do GBRIA Members Add Value to My Community?

• Significant Economic Impact
• 8 of all employees in the GBR
• region
• 40 of all jobs are due to industry

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How Do GBRIA Members Add Value to My Community?

• Significant Economic Impact
• Annual Taxes Paid

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How Do GBRIA Members Add Value to My Community?

• Providing Good Jobs
• 14,000 Plant Regular Contract Employees at an
  average salary of 65,000/year
• 5-6 downstream jobs per plant employee
• Many job opportunities due to retirements and
  demographics
• There is a shortage of trained, qualified people

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How Do GBRIA Members Add Value to My Community?

• Training Employees and Supporting Education
• Over 2 million/year for Craft Skills Safety
  Training
• 1,000 Craft People Trained Each Year at ABC
• Boilermakers, pipe fitters, electricians,
  welders
• 35,000 Construction Contractors trained each year
  at Safety Council
• PTEC Scholarships
• Local industry donates an additional 1.3 million
  to education annually

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How Do GBRIA Members Add Value to My Community?

• Fostering a Healthy Environment
• Louisiana industry has reduced Toxic Release
  Inventory (TRI) emissions by more than 80 percent
  since 1987
• 25 of all capital spent is on environmental
  improvement projects
• Health fairs education, mobile clinic
  sponsorships, wellness programs, fitness gyms
• Ozone non-attainment in the GBR area
• Partnered with DEQ to identify root causes
• Installed additional monitors
• Used high-tech camera
• Educate employees and public to help reduce ozone
• Implement protective measures on high risk ozone
  days

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How Do GBRIA Members Add Value to My Community?

• Improving Safety Security
• Standardized Contractor Safety Orientation
  Training Program since 1991
• Process Safety Management Contractor Audit
  Program since 1996
• Contractor Safety Awards Program since 1997
• Standardized Contractor Security Passport
  Program since 2004
• Standardized Certified Craftsperson Definition
  2006
• Safety benchmarking among
• members
• Zero Incident Safety Culture
• Guideline 2008

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Occupational Safety Health Administration
(OSHA)Workplace Safety Statistics (2005)

• Recordable Incident Rate
• 7.0
• 6.3
• 5.0
• 4.6
• 2.4
• 0.9

• Industry Sector
• Transportation Warehousing
• Manufacturing
• Retail
• Utilities
• Professional Svcs.
• Petrochemical

Top Injury types in GBRIA Plants Hand
injuries Being struck/by or against
something Quarterly GBRIA surveys over 2004-2006
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Awards Recognition Striving for Excellence

• Members
• National Petroleum Refiners Association (NPRA)
  Safety Achievement Award
• NPRA Gold Award
• OSHA Voluntary Protection Program STAR Sites
• OSHA Region VI Stars of Excellence
• LCA Best in Louisiana S.A.F.E. Award
• Governors Environmental Leadership Award
• EPAs Gulf Guardian Award
• Emergency Rescue Team Regional Winner
• Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award
• GBRIA
• Construction Industry Safety Excellence Award,
  1994 2006 by The Business Roundtable/Constructio
  n Users Roundtable

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How Do GBRIA Members Add Value to My Community?

• Supporting Health Care Reform
• Helped form the Louisiana Health Care Alliance in
  1984
• Actively working to reform Louisiana systems
• 5 Principles of Reform
• Transparency Pay for Performance
• Adoption of Evidence Based Medical Practices
• Changing Attitudes Consumer Accountability
• Reduced Regulatory Burdens Restrictions
• Ending the Cost Shift Covering the Uninsured

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How Do GBRIA Members Add Value to My Community?

• Charitable Donations
• Industry and its employees provide 60 of the
  United Way donations in the GBR area
• BR Green
• Chamber of Commerce
• American Red Cross
• Relay For Life
• March of Dimes
• Habitat For Humanity
• United Ways Hurricane Recovery Fund
• American Cancer Society
• Special Olympics
• Battered Womens Shelter
• YMCA
• Society of Women Engineers
• Salvation Army
• Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center
• Community Grant Program
• Education Donations - LSU, BRCC, ITI, ABC, Safety
  Council and many Local Elementary, Middle and
  High Schools

2005
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How Do GBRIA Members Add Value to My Community?

• Involved in the Community
• Neighbors - informed, involved prepared
• Community partners with industry for our future
• Parish State anchor for tax revenue

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Can I Work in Industry?

• Many Career Choices
• Plant technician/operators process, instrument,
  electrical, maintenance, laboratory
• Administrative clerk, bookkeeper, assistant
• Construction welder, scaffold builder,
  electrician, carpenter, pipe fitter, boilermaker,
  machinist, rigger, millwright, ironworker,
  painter, insulator and more.
• Professional - Engineer, accountant, economist,
  logistics, chemist, industrial hygienist
• See the Online Job Board at http//careers.gbria.o
  rg

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Can I Work in Industry?

• How Do I Qualify?
• Education/training
• High school minimum especially math, science,
  English
• Trade schools, ABC Craft Training Center or
  unions, and more.
• Community College, PTEC, Technical College,
  University.
• Drug free
• Security/background checks

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Competitive Challenges

• Safety, Health, Security Environment
• Worker community safety, health security
• Continuous emissions reductions ozone
  attainment
• Rising Costs
• Energy raw feedstock prices
• Materials prices
• Transportation rail, river, roads
• Healthcare/benefits
• Litigation

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Competitive Challenges

• Employee Education, Preparation, Availability
• Declining number of 18 year olds
• Rising number of retirees
• Lack of trained workforce - education/preparation
  to work in industry
• Shortage of skilled workers trades and
  professional
• Economic Development Public Acceptance
• Positive endorsement from community
• Sustainable, planned growth

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Organization

• Board of Directors
• Marcus Lewis, Rhodia, Chair
• Mike Cohen, BASF, Vice Chair
• Rich Bedell, Marathon Petroleum, Secty./Treas.
• Sharon Cole, Dow Chemical
• Les Dupre, Air Liquide
• Paul Guilfoyle, ExxonMobil Polyolefins
• Joey Hagmann, Placid Refining
• John Pacillo, Ineos Fluor
• Eric Phillips, Rubicon
• Kelly Serio, Formosa Plastics
• Staff
• Connie Fabré, Executive Director
• Chassidy Irwin, Safety Workforce Development
  Coordinator
• Sue Dodson, Administrative Assistant
• Burden Edmonds, Member Services Coordinator
  Student Intern

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Golf Gumbo Fundraiser Committee
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• Top row are national organizations, below them
  are the regional organizations affiliated.
• The Plants organizations relate owners needs and
  oversee programs that are administered by ABC and
  ARSC/Safety Councils
• ABC and ARSC/Safety Councils carry out the
  day-to-day work of training and processing
  contractors to prepare contractors for work at
  plant sites.
• There are more affiliated organizations around
  the nation. Those shown here are just the ones we
  work with the most at GBRIA.

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Parish Profiles2005
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Ascension Parish
Economic Impact Profile
6 of 12 plants participating
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Ascension ParishEnd Products

• Furniture/sofa cushions
• Household appliances,
• Insulation
• Paint
• Pharmaceuticals
• Household detergents
• Laundry Powders
• Liquids Personal care products
• High-Performance synthetic lubricants
• Antifreeze
• PTT polyester used in carpet textiles
• Water purification
• Intermediates for pharmaceutical PVC
  manufacturing industries
• Intermediates for cleaning compounds
  refrigeration

• Urea
• UAN
• Ammonia
• High-octane gasoline
• Soap
• Detergent
• Lotion
• Fabric softener
• Herbicide
• Dashboards
• Bumpers
• Seat cushions
• Mattresses
• Carpeting
• Clothing
• Fuel additives
• Foam products

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Ascension ParishServing Familiar Customers

• Farmers
• Valero
• Western Refining
• Conoco-Phillips
• Stepan
• Eastman
• Honeywell
• Automotive parts manufacturers
• Construction industry
• Furniture and bedding industry

• Carpet industry
• Foamers
• Colgate
• Palmolive
• Unilever
• Proctor Gamble
• BASF
• Rubicon
• DuPont
• Honeywell

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Ascension ParishCharitable Contributions

• Red Cross
• Relay For Life
• United Way's hurricane recovery fund
• St. James Council on Aging for hurricane relief
• Community Advisory Panel
• McMain's Children Development Center
• Volunteer Ascension
• Freedom Mile Sponsor
• Nature Conservatory of LA
• Habitat for Humanity
• Battered Women's Shelter
• American Red Cross

• St. Amant Primary
• Middle High Schools Partner in Education
• YMCA
• Ascension PTEC scholarship
• Ascension Fund
• Career Builders
• 100 Black Men
• Society of Women Engineers
• Junior Achievement
• River Parish Community College

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Iberville Parish
Economic Impact Profile
7 of 8 plants reporting
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Iberville ParishEnd Products

• Weed killers (Bicep, Lumax, Lexar)
• Vinyl Siding
• Pipe
• Plywood
• Paper Products
• Aluminum
• Pharmaceuticals
• Windows
• Packaging
• Appliance/TV cases
• Fiberglass foam egg cartons
• Electrical products
  
• Bicycle helmets
• Flooring
  
• DVD/VCR/video game consoles

• Plastics (cups, siding, window frames)
• Herbicides
• Bleach
• Foams (insulation, pillows, car seats)
• Purified water
• Carpets for residential and automotive use
• Clothing
• Linens
• Towels
• Curtains
• Childrens floats
  
• Refrigerator internals and trays
• Tires

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Iberville ParishServing Familiar Customers

• Local Industry
• Textile mills
• Clothing manufacturers
• Carpet manufacturers
• Housing and Construction product manufacturers

• Automotive industry
• Chemical companies
• Wal-Mart
• CVS Pharmacies
• Sams Warehouse

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Iberville ParishCharitable Contributions

• Habitat for Humanity
• Red Cross Disaster Relief fund
• St. Gabriel Initiative
• Louisiana Resource Center for Educators
• Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center
• Iberville Academic Excellence
• Iberville schools
• March of Dimes

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East Baton Rouge
Economic Impact Profile
5 of 10 plants responding
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EBR ParishEnd Products

• Tires
• Adhesives
• Food packaging
• Fast dry paint
• Fiberglass boats
• Adhesive for disposable baby diapers
• Water softener resins

• Gasoline
• Milk jugs
• Juice bottles
• Diapers
• Paint
• Hoses
• Wire and cable
• Automotive products

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EBR ParishServing Familiar Customers

• Wal-Mart
• Sam's
• Costco
• Consolidated Container
• Kimberly Clark
• Michelin
• Goodyear
• Firestone

• Oronite
• HB Fuller
• National Starch
• Bemis
• Eliochem
• Reichhold
• Hexion
• Rohm Haas
• Sherwin Williams

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EBR ParishCharitable Contributions

• Environmental groups
• Health organizations
• Boy Scouts Girl Scouts
• Community enrichment
• Arts Culture
• Civic Community programs
• Employee Volunteer Programs

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• Adding Value to Your Community
• Thank You!
• 5800 One Perkins Place Drive, Suite 5-A
• Baton Rouge, LA 70808
• www.gbria.org Ph [phone] Fax (225)
  769-0289