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Nolan Will Succeed Alliston
As Process Superintendent
Keeping Safety Idea Plan Effective
Awards Subcommittee's Basic Goal
Members of the Awards subcommittee arc, from left, L. G. Hagler,
Chemical Plant electrician; Ray Dailey, Utilities and Environmental
Control; Truett Smith; and Billy McConnell, Chemicals Operations.
film drying line are T. G. Pierce,
Head of Exxon Chemical USA’s
New Ventures Market Develop-
ment and Planning; R. B. Nes-
bitt, Exxon Chemical Plastics
Vice President; and J. R. Griffin,
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Beginning in 1961, Nolan
spent a year on a special assign-
ment in Manufacturing Coord-
ination at Exxon’s Houston Head-
quarters. He became manager of
Billings Refinery in 1966.
Nolan is active in several civic
and professional organizations.
He is a member of the National
Society of Professional Engi-
neers, the American Management
Association, the Montana State
Chamber of Commerce, and the
National Petroleum Refiners As-
sociation.
He has also participated in
Boy Scout, United Fund, and
several other community activi-
ties in Billings.
Nolan and his wife, Margaret
Ann, have a son, Gregg, who is
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Martha Callam, Safety, routes a
safety suggestion to basic equip-
ment owner for evaluation.
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Refinery, effective
June 1. He will
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A saving of $25 a day can be
realized by repairing a steam
leak from a 1-inch hole in a
600-pound steam line.
A new high temperature film
pilot unit is being started up
at Exxon Chemical’s Plastics
Technology Division at the Bay-
town Research Center. Pictured
above observing operation of a
Operations and Planning in
Headquarters Refining was an-
nounced previously.
A native of Great Falls, Mon-
tana, Nolan attended Montana
Stale University, where he re-
ceived a B.S. in chemical engi-
neering in 1945 and a B.S. in
electrical engineering in 1946.
He joined the Manufacturing
Department of the Billings Re-
finery after receiving his degree
in 1946. He has served in several
supervisory posts at Billings, in-
cluding assignments as manager
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a cigarette will give you about
40 percent of the total tar and
nicotine, and the last half will
give you the remaining 60 per-
cent. The sooner you put out
your cigarette, the lower the dose
of those two harmful ingredients.
3. Take fewer draws on each
cigarette and you’ll cut down on
smoking without really missing
it.
4. Moderate your habit of in-
haling smoke. Don’t inhale as
deeply as you have been doing.
Instead, take short, shallow drags
or just puffs. Practice on a big
cigar.
5. Smoke fewer cigarettes each
day. Also, pick a time of day
when you promise yourself not
to smoke at all. Maybe you won’t
start smoking until after break-
fast; maybe you won’t smoke on
the way to work, or between 3
and 4 o’clock in the afternoon
or on the way home. But make
it a habit not to smoke during
that particular time of day. Don’t
think of abstaining from smoking
as cutting down; think of it as
postponing. It is easier to post-
pone a cigarette if you know
you’ll have one later.
You’re a smoker. Maybe you’re
a heavy smoker, using a pack or
more a day. You know quite well
that a person who smokes may
die younger than a person who
never smoked—or younger than
a former smoker who quit. But,
like tens of millions of other
smokers, maybe you just can’t
quit—or you don’t want to.
If you fall in this category,
you can take a number of steps
that will slow down the harmful
effects of smoking.
Here are five actions that will
help take some of the danger out
of smoking:
1. Choose a cigarette with the
least tar and nicotine content.
Some brands contain more than
twice the amount of tar and nico-
tine that other brands contain.
Do a little research to see how
your brand compares. Find out
how much you can reduce your
intake of tar and nicotine by
switching to another brand—or
to a variation of the brand you
you are smoking now.
2. Don’t smoke more than half
of a cigarette, as you get the
most tar and nicotine from the
last few puffs. The first half of
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“Although there is no way to
measure how many accidents
have been prevented through the
plan,” Smith says, “we do know
that since the plan went into
effect in 1936 employees have
submitted about 300 safety sug-
gestions a year.”
A large number of these ideas
resulted in correction of con-
ditions which could have con-
tributed to accidents, Smith
notes.
Refinery and Chemical Plant
employees submit some 25 to 30
ideas a month to improve safety
by elimination of hazards. These
ideas are sent to the Safety De-
partment on special safety sug-
gestion forms available at depart-
mental offices and unit control
rooms. The Safety Department
then sends the ideas to the appro-
priate basic equipment owners
for initial evaluation.
The recommendation of the
equipment owner is returned to
Safety, and then given to the
awards subcommittee for further
review. If the suggestion is ac-
cepted by both the committee
and the equipment owner, the
author receives an award for the
suggestion. If the idea is rejected,
the awards subcommittee notifies
the author of the rejection.
The awards subcommittee en-
courages prompt evaluation of
each suggestion. One of the sub-
committee’s 1974 goal is to re-
duce evaluation time to no longer
than two months for all ideas
submitted. Each idea accepted
brings the author an award of
$10. The best idea of the month
brings the author an additional
$5 monthly capital award.
At the end of the safety award
plan year July 31, the awards
subcommittee chooses the best
suggestions submitted during the
year. The authors of these ideas
receive additional $25 capital
awards, and the best suggestion
of the year brings the author
$50 more, or a total capital
award of $75.
“The safety award plan has
served the Refinery and Chemical
Plant well for almost four dec-
ades, and the goal of the awards
subcommittee is to keep it work-
ing effectively as a safety tool,”
Smith says.
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“The safety awards subcom-
mittee of the Central Safety
Committee is one organization
that would like to go out of
business,” says Subcommittee
Chairman Truett Smith, now on
a special assignment in Process
Engineering.
“We don’t want to disband,”
he says, “but would like to see
the day that the need for safety
suggestions in the plants have
been eliminated.”
The main business of the
awards subcommittee is to make
sure that the safety suggestion
plan is applied on a consistent
basis throughout the Refinery
and Chemical Plant. Members of
the subcommittee are appointed
each year by the chairman of the
Central Safety Committee. They
represent a cross section of em-
ployees in order to promote par-
ticipation in the suggestion plan
from throughout the organiza-
tions.
Since the plan began 38 years
ago, ideas submitted by employ-
ees to eliminate safety hazards in
the plants have been a signifi-
cant part of the overall safety
program al Baytown.
High Temperature Plastics Tech-
nology Head. The new facility
will be used for process studies
and market development produc-
tion of Exxon Chemical’s new
poly high temperature film.
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