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SUMMARY OF OUR COMPENSATION CONSIDERATIONS /
Sustainability, Safety and the Health of Our Employees During the
COVID-19 Pandemic
Our sustainability efforts and our commitment to our employees go hand-in-hand. We discuss these important topics in
several places in our public filings, including our annual Sustainability Report and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2020 where we discuss the importance of Human Capital to our Company. We encourage you
to read those materials. In this section, we would like to highlight several of these topics and tell you about our
achievements in these areas-namely, what Sustainability means to us generally, Environmental Stewardship, Safety, and
Our Employees.
Sustainability
Our approach to Sustainability is embedded in four vital pillars of Safety, Environment, Employees, and
Community. We continued to achieve improvements in each of these areas in 2020.
Safe Environmental Employee Community
Operations Stewardship Well-Being Well-Being
Protecting all who come Protecting the Earth’s Support and investing Being a responsible
in contact with our resources and reducing in our people – the neighbor and supporting
products & operations, our environmental foundation of our the communities that are
and creating a culture of impact success home to our operations
responsible leadership
Track records such as ours are built purposefully; they are the result of a deliberate focus on
fulfilling our responsibilities to our shareholders, our employees and other stakeholders. These
responsibilities include:
Demanding and facilitating Creating a positive, lasting Growing our business and
a safe, ethical workplace impact on our communities responsibly investing our
for our employees and the environment capital for maximum return
In furtherance of these continuing commitments, we have:
• Included performance relating to Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability (collectively, EHS) in our
management strategy
• Considered achievement of individual and company-wide goals in regard to EHS in management compensation
decisions
• Developed a task force relating to Sustainability with a view towards assessing and improving Company
performance and disclosure against world-class achievements
• Report regularly, at least twice annually, our progress on EHS issues to our Ethics, Environment, Health and Safety
Committee (EESHC), an independent Committee of the Board of Directors
These critical matters are important to this Committee, the full Board, and management of Martin Marietta.
SOAR, supplemented by our annual plan, has guided us since 2010 as we have grown our business, driven our safety
incidents to record low levels, achieved record financial performance and created positive impacts on our communities and
the environment. Key managers from across our business and our senior leadership team engage throughout the year on
material topics, including safety, employee well-being, community well-being and the environment.
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