23 SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT VALUE CREATION & QUALITY (VCQ) COMMUNITY TEAM MEMBERS Our EHS (Environmental, Health and Safety) and Quality Assurance teams work with each Pacific Seafood location to ensure we are not only passing regulatory, safety, and sustainability audits, but doing so with flying colors. The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) selected Pacific Seafood as a company to highlight when leadership from Washington D.C. visited Oregon. We were selected for our water conservation and pollution reduction work through our partnership with the OASE (Oregon Applied Sustainability Experience) internship program and Oregon Sea Grant. We have partnered with OASE and Oregon DEQ (Department of Environmental Quality) for the past three years to host interns, who dedicate 10-weeks to water conservation and pollution prevention research. The OASE internship program is a grant funded program through the EPA and Oregon Sea Grant. “The staff at Pacific obviously cares about sustainability and pollution prevention, and that has been a really supportive environment for our interns,” Jenny Engels OASE Program Assistant Pacific Seafood has offered job positions to several of OASE interns, including Derek Yau, Value Creation Quality Lead in Clackamas, Ore., who said the program helped him gain valuable business experience. Our partnership with OASE and the Oregon Sea Grant continues, as we advance our company’s sustainability goals. “That is the most exciting part. It’s not just a one and done. They’ve put their energy and their passion and everything into it to make it successful,” Lisa Cox Oregon DEQ Sr. Toxics Reduction Analyst EPA VISIT WATCH VIDEO “OASE really helped me broaden my horizons in terms of understanding how sustainability can take many different forms and how it specifically interacts within a business. That’s something I learned about and probably wouldn’t have learned about without this internship program,” Derik Yau Value Creation Quality Lead
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