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SAFE OPERATIONS

This past summer, Jenifer Padgett, an East Division senior safety. It keeps us engaged with our Guardian Angel
safety manager, and Southwest Division Safety Manager culture.”
Jeff Cross worked with the rest of the Company’s Safety
Leadership Team to formalize the photo/testimonial effort. Carolina South District Area Production Manager Justin
The result is the Companywide Why I Work Safely Nelson agrees and says that just taking the time to think
campaign. about why he works safely forced him to realize how his
attitude has changed over time. The experience, he says,
“Where I come from in Ohio, we’ve done this for a long
was quite valuable.
time, and one of the things I noticed was that people took
ownership of the safety process,” Padgett says. “They “I started my career with Martin Marietta as a college
really take pride in doing things the safe way.” student who just wanted to enjoy life, but I realized quickly
the role that safety plays in our business. I formed strong
“We don’t just work safely because of a motto, bonds with my peers and, naturally, did what I could to
or a sign, or a tagline. We work safely for the prevent them from getting hurt,” he says. “When I got a
people involved – the family members, the little older and had a family of my own, I still wanted my
work family to be safe, but my attitude evolved because I
friends and the other loved ones.”
now had to provide for my wife and kids. With my kids
now getting older, my attitude continues to evolve. I
When the Safety Leadership Team began calling for Why I realize more and more that safety can’t just be a focus at
Work Safely submissions, they asked employees to share work, it has to be ingrained into my life so that I take it
photos along with a brief description explaining their home to my family as well.”
thoughts on safe work. Initially, Padgett and Cross
expected enough stories to populate the Company’s digital Flynn, whose team in Nova Scotia last year celebrated
signs for about a month. Currently, the campaign has 2 million hours of safe work, seconded the notion that the
received so many submissions that new slides will be exercise is worthwhile. He says he’d be more than willing
running through the year. to share his story again and that he hopes others feel the
same way.
“This has been great because we never really wanted this
to be just a one-month safety topic or just part of our “Sharing my story was my way of showing that safety is of
training for new employees,” Padgett says. “We want this the utmost importance,” he says. “I wanted to share it so
to continue. It’s easy to say that focusing on why we work that the people here at Porcupine Mountain and others
safely is part of our safety program, but really working to across the Company understand that safety is part of who
keep it in focus is another way we show our dedication to we are and everything we do.”

Among the first to
submit a Why I Work
Safely form, Padgett
chose to highlight
her roles as daughter,
mother, sister, wife
and “Gamma.”

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