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Safety, Health and Environmental Regulations
Martin Marietta is committed to providing a safe and healthy work place
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 responsibility to abide by safe operating proce-
dures by rigorously adhering to established safety procedures and practices,
avoiding short cuts, and guarding our own and our fellow employees’ safety.
The Company is committed to oper-
ating in an environmentally responsible Q: Someone told me to disable
manner. It is the Company’s policy to a safety device that slows down
continually strive to improve compliance production. What should I do?
with environmental laws and regulations,
to place primary responsibility for com- A: Employees should never
bypass, disconnect or disable
pliance with environmental laws with any safety device or monitoring
operations management and to encourage equipment. Doing so may
employee involvement in implementing violate the law or expose you
this policy and reporting any suspected or others to accident or injury.
environmental problems. Safety is an absolute com-
mitment that should not be
In the United States and other coun- compromised for any reason.
tries in which Martin Marietta operates,
regulatory agencies exist under federal,
state or local jurisdiction to ensure compliance with laws and regulations
affecting safety, health and environmental protection. It is Martin Marietta’s
policy to comply with both the letter and the spirit of the laws and regula-
tions imposed by these agencies and to attempt to develop a cooperative
attitude with inspection and enforcement personnel from the agencies. In
keeping with this spirit, employees are encouraged to report to their super-
visors conditions that they perceive to be unsafe, unhealthy or hazardous to
the environment.