H.R. No. 126R E S O L U T I O N WHEREAS, On September 3, 2002, BP Solvay Polyethylene North America received the highest honor from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) when the company was recognized with the VPP Star; and WHEREAS, OSHA established the Voluntary Protection Program to work with companies in a partnership to improve safety; Star sites have exceptional safety programs in place, low injury rates, and employees who are actively involved in protecting each other from injuries; and WHEREAS, BP Solvay Polyethylene North America is one of the world's largest producers of high density polyethylene, which is used to make such products as packaging, telecommunications conduits, underground pipes, geosynthetic materials, automotive parts, industrial containers, and recreational items; and WHEREAS, With its designation as a Star work site, BP Solvay Polyethylene North America has proven itself to have an exemplary safety and health program, an achievement resulting from 10 years of dedication and teamwork; and WHEREAS, Through their development of and adherence to a far-sighted and exacting health and safety program, the management and workers at BP Solvay Polyethylene North America have achieved an impressive record of worker safety and created a model site within their industry; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 78th Texas Legislature hereby congratulate BP Solvay Polyethylene North America on having been recognized as an OSHA Star site and extend sincere best wishes for many years of continued success to all associated with this enterprise; and, be it further RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be prepared for the company as an expression of high regard by the Texas House of Representatives. Talton Craddick Giddings Merritt Allen Goodman Miller Alonzo Goolsby Moreno of Harris Bailey Griggs Moreno of El Paso Baxter Grusendorf Morrison Berman Guillen Mowery Bohac Gutierrez Naishtat Bonnen Haggerty Nixon Branch Hamilton Noriega Brown of Kaufman Hamric Oliveira Brown of Brazos Hardcastle Olivo Burnam Harper-Brown Paxton Callegari Hartnett Pena Campbell Heflin Phillips Canales Hegar Pickett Capelo Hilderbran Pitts Casteel Hill Puente Castro Hochberg Quintanilla Chavez Hodge Rangel Chisum Homer Raymond Christian Hope Reyna Coleman Hopson Riddle Cook of Navarro Howard Ritter Cook of Colorado Hughes Rodriguez Corte Hunter Rose Crabb Hupp Seaman Crownover Isett Smith of Tarrant Davis of Harris Jones of Lubbock Smith of Harris Davis of Dallas Jones of Bexar Smithee Dawson Jones of Dallas Solis Delisi Keel Solomons Denny Keffer of Dallas Stick Deshotel Keffer of Eastland Swinford Driver King Talton Dukes Kolkhorst Taylor Dunnam Krusee Telford Dutton Kuempel Thompson Edwards Laney Truitt Eiland Laubenberg Turner Eissler Lewis Uresti Elkins Luna Van Arsdale Ellis Mabry Villarreal Farabee Madden West Farrar Marchant Wilson Flores Martinez Fischer Wise Flynn McCall Wohlgemuth Gallego McClendon Wolens Garza McReynolds Wong Gattis Menendez Woolley Geren Mercer Zedler ______________________________ Speaker of the House I certify that H.R. No. 126 was adopted by the House on February 6, 2003, by a non-record vote. ______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House