Community outreach. The Fos Caban Plant is recognized as a dedicated member of the community by local elected officials and nearby towns. We engage in regular conversations with the communities around us. The plant is a member of the CYPRES (Regional Center for Public Information on Major Industrial Risks). We also participate in the Seveso Information campaigns on Major Industrial Risks. We also play a key role in the development of the Fos/Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône CLIé (Commission Locale d’Information et d’Echanges) with neighboring communities.Educational support. We partner with local schools to support science education through job and science forums, presentations to students and tours of our facility.Global Care Day. Thousands of our employees, worldwide, work to make a difference in the world by joining LyondellBasell’s annual community service day. This year, our volunteers continued their support of La Chrysalide Martigues Golfe de Fos, volunteers worked alongside the agency’s residents and educators in their home for mentally impaired adults and children located in Entressen. Landscaping, trimming woods, building a concrete floor and repainting were some of the hands on projects completed by the 2011 volunteers. In years past, we restored a donated house so it could be sold at the highest possible price for the benefit of La Chrysalide, planted trees and posidoniae in the Mediterranean, renovated a school in Arles that was damaged by severe floods and helped protect a bird habitat in the Marais du Verdier, in nearby Camargue.
Volunteerism. We encourage our employees’ engagement in the local community. We support local firefighters by organizing holiday activities in Provence for children whose fathers have died in the course of their firefighting duties.