Topics & Meetings – Citizen's Advisory Council to La Porte Industry

MEETINGS

Next Meeting: April 4 2023-- TxDOT Updates on Highways 225 and 146

LPCAC usually meets on the 1st Tuesday of the month, except for the months of June, July, and December.

The typical agenda includes updates from plants on environmental and safety performance and business information. The main topic may be a presentation, an annual report, or a tour. Time is always allotted for Q&A and discussion. Contact us at [email protected] if you would like an invitation.

TOPICS

Recent Meeting Summaries

March 7, 2023-- Annual Report on Worker Safety. Summary.

February 7, 2023-- Meet the New Agency Night: Gulf Coast Protection District & San Jacinto Regional Flood Planning Group. Summary. Gulf Coast Protection District Slides. San Jacinto Regional Flood Planning Group Slides.

January 12, 2023- Annual Update on the State of the Plants and Electrical Grid Update: What Plants Have Done to Improve their Resiliency. Summary.

November 1, 2022- Updates on Significant Events in 2021 at LyondellBasell La Porte, Dow Bayport, and Lubrizol Deer Park. Summary

October 5, 2022- Update on La Porte Education Foundation. Return of the Sticky Dots: Brainstorming and Prioritizing Meeting Topics for 2023. Summary.

September 6, 2022-- Annual Report on Emissions from CAC plants. Summary. HRM 2021 Air Quality Trends

August 2, 2022-- Improving Emergency Communications with Community. Summary

May 3, 2022-- EHCMA's New Strategic Plan, with a Focus on Its Community Aspects. Summary. Slides.

How We Select Meeting Topics

Every year or so, LPCAC develops a Program Plan to assure it is addressing issues of greatest interest to community members. Community members, plant members, and guests brainstorm topics they believe LPCAC should address. Using sticky dots, they choose those they most want to cover in the coming year. By using different colors for community and plant members, LPCAC can schedule the topics of most community interest. Members may also see whether there are differences in what community and plant members want to discuss. The Program Plan is flexible and may be changed by group agreement. Contact us if there are issues you would like LPCAC to address.

Of Special Interest Over the Years

April 5, 2022-- How the 3 Cities Respond to Major Industry Events: Who Does What? Summary. La Porte Slides. Morgan's Point Slides

January 4, 2022-- Update on Weather & Air Quality Study Based at La Porte Airport. Program Planning. Summary. Slides.

May 4, 2021-- Major New Weather & Air Quality Study Based at La Porte Airport. Summary Slides

February 2, 2021-- Status of Coastal Protection Efforts. Summary

March 5, 2019 -- Joint CAC Meeting: Consequences of Regulatory Changes on the Economy and the Environment. Summary Speaker Slides: Honeycutt. Craft. Beskid.

April 25, 2018 – Joint CAC Meeting to hear Dr. Sam Mannan on Ranking of Chemical Facilities Based on Potential to Cause Harm to the Public. Summary

Safety Moments

At each meeting, plants report workplace-related worker injuries and illnesses recorded as required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Occasionally, LPCAC schedules plants to talk about their safety programs. The group has incorporated a Safety Moment, presented by a LPCAC plant, into each meeting. The moment may be about safety specific to that plant or about preventing the kind of accidents common in everyday life.

1 Way to Personalize Safety- How to Get Into Their Heads Through Their Hearts. Slides

Safestart Program- Focus on concepts and Techniques that boost awareness and cut down on human error. Slides

Normalization of Deviance: Processes through which ideas and actions, although going against a formally enacted rule or informal violations of social norms, come to be seen as the “normal”.
Slides

Will anyone know if you get hurt? The do's and don'ts of working alone. Slides

Worlds are Colliding: bringing lessons learned from work to home and then bringing the culture of caring from home to work. Slides

Security Awareness and Planning. Slides

Staying Safe on Spring Break. Tips for Traveling Safely

Have you heard about...?

Rice University's Severe Storm Prediction, Education, & Evacuation from Disasters Center (SSPEED)

The mission of SSPEED is to educate the Gulf Coast region by increasing governmental and public awareness of the risks associated with severe storms and hurricanes.

The Center has secured new funding for research studies for the Galveston Bay Park Plan (GBPP) that will include: barrier design, project program development, computer modeling of GBPP and Oyster Reef Research and Mitigation. The GBPP is a regional multi-functional facility providing flood surge protection, recreational opportunities enhanced environmental conditions, improved operational safety for Houston Ship Channel, and improved fish and wildlife. The project works in collaboration with the Coastal Spine.

Check out their website for further information.