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Safety, Health and

Environmental Regulations

We are committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace for
our employees and for visitors to our premises. These commitments can only be
met through the awareness and cooperation of
all Martin Marietta employees. We each have a
Q: Someone told me to responsibility to abide by safe operating procedures
disable a safety device that by rigorously adhering to established safety
slows down production. procedures and practices, avoiding short cuts, and
What should I do?
guarding our own and our fellow employees’ safety.
A: Employees should never We are committed to operating in an
bypass, disconnect or environmentally responsible manner. It is our
disable any safety device policy to continually strive to improve compliance
or monitoring equipment. with environmental laws and regulations, to
Doing so may violate the place primary responsibility for compliance with
law or expose you or
others to an accident or environmental laws with operations management
injury. Safety is an and to encourage employee involvement in
absolute commitment that implementing this policy and reporting suspected
should not be compro- environmental problems.
mised for any reason.
In the United States and other countries in which
we operate, regulatory agencies exist under federal,
state or local jurisdiction to ensure compliance with
laws and regulations affecting safety, health and environmental protection. It is our
policy to comply with both the letter and the spirit of the laws and regulations. In
keeping with this spirit, you are encouraged to report to your supervisor conditions
that you perceive to be unsafe, unhealthy or hazardous to the environment. Alterna-
tively, you may report these concerns to Human Resources or the Ethics Office.