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SAFE OPERATIONS

Corporate Safety Audit Initiative

Our corporate safety audit initiative has been an essential
element in our safety journey. Originally implemented
with a core team of seven safety professionals, the audit We Continue to Prove
team was expanded in recent years to include all safety that Zero is Possible
professionals and operational staff as well. Its purpose
was to share best practices and to identify process and
communication improvements to further the Company’s of employees
safety performance to world-class levels. 99.8% experienced ZERO lost-
time incidents in 2022

COVID-19 and related travel safety concerns paused
some of the corporate safety audit team’s activities in
2021. However, recognizing that the audit process has of employees
become an important element of the Company’s safety 99.1% experienced ZERO
incidents in 2022
program, we asked local personnel to act as safety business
auditors to continue driving better performance. In total,
these audit teams conducted 632 safety audits,
inspections and engagements across the Company’s
footprint in 2022. Led by operations leadership, from units have worked more
hourly employees to our Division Presidents, this process 81 than 500,000 hours with
allowed our teams to maintain a strong, boots-on-the- ZERO lost-time injuries
ground presence, which contributed to Martin Marietta’s
safest year on record. In this regard, our MSHA citation
per inspection (CPI) rate of 1.14 and our MSHA citation per inspection day (CPD) rate of 0.32 outperformed the 2022
aggregates/cement/lime industry averages of 1.89 and 1.15, respectively.

Underground Mine Safety
Conference Sets the Stage for Safety

In just two days in February 2022, Martin Marietta’s remain successful. “We need to ensure our environment is
underground mine leaders were able to help facilitate one where people can make the right decisions and
months of safer, more productive work throughout much practice the right behaviors,” he said. Podrazik’s address
of the Central Division - home to all of the Company’s reflected the challenge presented to all employees by the
underground mines. At the Company’s biennial Company’s CEO, Ward Nye: “As a Company, we have
Underground Mine Safety Conference Meeting in proven that safe work is more than an aspiration.
Collinsville, Illinois, the group of more than 70 Together, let us continue to prove it each and every day.”
underground experts discussed a variety of topics from
safety mentorship and occupational health to the latest After presentations by Des Moines District Regional
Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) initiatives Production Manager Ryan Bender and Underground
and regulations. Services Manager Steve Johnson, the conference dispersed
into breakout sessions, where smaller groups discussed
Among the first to address the audience was Central topics like new hire challenges and hazard recognition.
Division President Bill Podrazik. Challenging every
underground team to get better day by day, Podrazik said
continuous improvement is vital if Martin Marietta is to

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