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EMPLOYEE WELL-BEING
A Year Like No Other
Adapting to and Succeeding in the COVID-19 World
Martin Marietta’s safety performance in the midst of the Wingman principles while always acting as ONE team in
COVID-19 crisis in 2020 was extraordinary, and we are 2020 enabled us to not only adapt quickly to a host of
extremely proud of our employees for what they continue operational and safety changes brought about by the
to do -- day in and day out -- to work safely in the face of pandemic, but to post our safest year on record in
unprecedented challenges. the process.
Difficult times can test character, so we rely upon our Our approach to managing the COVID-19 pandemic,
values, beliefs and culture to guide us. This is what makes though we were deemed an “essential business” and
Martin Marietta so special. Our collective commitment to operated nearly continuously throughout 2020, has been
ethics and safety is deeply rooted in our DNA. It’s who we multi-faceted from the outset. Non-essential travel was
are. Embracing our Guardian Angel safety culture and its restricted in early March as a majority of our support staff
Fernando Ocampo Rodriguez,
a lab technician at Arkansas’
Hatton Quarry, dons a face
covering while testing a sample
of the site’s granite.
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