Covanta's Delaware Valley WTE Facility Honored by OSHA with Prestigious 'STAR' Designation for Outstanding Safety Practices
May 15 2006 - 3:31PM
PR Newswire (US)
CHESTER, Pa., May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 18, Covanta Delaware
Valley, a renewable energy power plant located in Chester,
Pennsylvania fueled by municipal solid waste will be honored by the
US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) with its "STAR" designation. The "STAR"
recognition is OSHA's highest honor given to power generating
facilities with outstanding health and safety practices. The
Delaware Valley waste-to-energy (WTE) plant is operated by Covanta
Energy Corporation. Covanta Delaware Valley's designation as a
"STAR" facility is an honor given to less than 0.02 percent of 7
million US workplaces and comes following participation in the
agency's Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) requiring adherence to
the highest health and safety protocols in the industry. The
facility launched participation in the VPP program in 2003 and was
notified of OSHA's decision to be granted STAR status in September
of 2005. "Achieving VPP STAR recognition means that Covanta
Delaware Valley has achieved the very highest standards in employee
and workplace safety", said Tony Orlando, President and CEO of
Covanta Energy. "And it also means that our Covanta Delaware Valley
employees have gone far beyond the norms of good practices and have
moved into the realm of true excellence, setting a standard for the
rest of the industry to follow." Covanta's Delaware Valley facility
is the tenth facility within Covanta's network of WTE facilities to
achieve VPP STAR recognition. The WTE facility is operated by
Covanta Delaware Valley, L.P., a subsidiary of Covanta Energy
Corporation, and serves as an integral component of Delaware
County's solid waste management program, providing environmentally
sound waste disposal services to communities in and around Delaware
County while generating up to 80 megawatts of clean renewable
electricity every day. DATASOURCE: Covanta Delaware Valley CONTACT:
Doreen Lubeck, +1-973-882-7001, for Covanta Delaware Valley
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