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SAFE OPERATIONS

How Do You Keep Your ZERO? encourages each member of the team to consciously rededicate to finishing each day
safely, says Hunt, adding that safety leaders and champions must continue to stress the importance of personal
commitment to Martin Marietta’s safety culture. Downs feels similarly. “This is a worthy cause,” he says. “It takes courage
to speak up when something isn’t right, integrity to do the right thing when no one is watching and discipline to commit
to doing the things you said you would do to keep your zero.”

Our People Need to Know They’re Covered

Company-Wide Effort to Expand PPE want to stand out, they may be less inclined to wear them
Sizing and put themselves at risk of injury.”

It is no secret that the aggregates industry is a tough, Confirming the industry trend, our PPE provider tells us
physical business. Ours is largely an “outdoor sport,” and that PPE manufacturers have long offered small and x-
it’s played for long hours, with heavy equipment and in all small sizes for items like gloves. However, recently,
weather. Ensuring that our employees stay safe while manufacturers have begun to expand that focus to include
making the products that build our communities is the items like safety glasses designed for a smaller face shape,
Company’s top priority. As our workforce continues to and safety vests specifically cut to fit women.
diversify, our safety teams realized that we needed to be
sure we could accommodate employees of all sizes. In
2022, the Company worked with our personal protective
equipment (PPE) provider to ensure that the available
catalog included PPE designed especially for people of
smaller stature.

Southwest Division Safety Director Cherie Marley says the
industry has spent more than a decade proactively working
to make sure larger miners have effective and comfortably-
sized PPE to wear. Recently, that effort has expanded to
include people on the smaller end of the sizing spectrum.

While all PPE available to Martin Marietta’s teams is safe Marley praised the industry’s effort to make sure properly-
and in compliance with federal regulations, Marley said sized PPE is available to all employees. “This is a matter for
having smaller PPE sizes readily available instead of teams with women, but it goes beyond that,” she said.
available on request, will be incredibly helpful. “We have many male members of our team who are
smaller in stature. Our teams need to make the effort
“Most of our people want to be like everyone else on their
necessary to ensure every employee can work safely. Our
team. They don’t want to have to ask for a smaller pair of
people need to know they’re covered.”
gloves or a smaller pair of glasses. They want to fit in,” she
said. “But that situation can be problematic. If people just
grab a pair of gloves that don’t fit right because they don’t

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