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SAFE OPERATIONS

Despite our growth into new markets, we continued to see
dramatic safety improvements over the prior year. One of the
values we embrace that has enabled this achievement is our
Guardian Angel Creed. With Guardian Angel as the foundation
of our safety culture, safety performance, ownership and
engagement of the safety process extends beyond division lines
and allows our employees to be consistently reminded that each
one of us is responsible for our own and each other’s safety. As
an integral part of this safety culture, we continually train our
employees on health and safety. This is in addition to initial
training that employees receive when hired.

In 2023, Martin Marietta launched a revamped cross-functional Safety Task Force in the spring designed to work across all
divisions and business lines to ensure the Guardian Angel safety culture continues to grow and improve. Created and
announced earlier in the year by Chair and CEO Ward Nye, the task force first met in May at the corporate headquarters
in Raleigh.

During that meeting, Vice President of Safety and Health Michael Hunt said that while Martin Marietta achieved world-
class safety performance across the company in the first half of 2023, the Safety Task Force would focus on objectives
aiming to help every member of the team work better and safer.
“Through engaging with our colleagues, we want to validate the safety procedures we believe to be best practices and
identify areas where there is opportunity to improve,” he said. “Ultimately, we want to advance our industry-leading
safety culture and performance so that more of our people go home safely each day. We want to achieve ZERO
incidents.”
In early July, the task force worked with an outside partner to conduct an anonymous and confidential companywide
safety survey in an effort to better understand the prevailing attitudes on safety at Martin Marietta. The group further
gathered confidential employee feedback and data from on-site safety audits held throughout the summer.

While talking about the importance of these activities, Magnesia Specialties Vice President of Operations and task force
member Brad Vernier referenced the Guardian Angel Creed, which promises that no employee who speaks up about a
safety matter in good faith will ever face discipline or retaliation.
“Nothing is more important than ensuring every person goes home to their family safely at the end of the day,” he said
shortly after the companywide survey began. “It’s tough to improve a safety culture without a baseline, so getting an
accurate read on where we are today is a great place to start. Guardian Angel is driven by our people and requires that
we all be open and transparent to call things exactly as we see them. The efforts being led by the task force are no
different.”

Agreeing with Vernier, Hunt said the task force worked diligently to meet a high bar of achievement in 2023. “We
identified several key safety areas – based on data and employee experience – where we can make substantial and
sustainable improvements,” he said. “We worked to develop a series of recommendations that were shared with
company leadership. We then determined how best to pursue those recommendations companywide.”
Among the task force’s recommendations was encouraging senior leaders to continue to be visibly involved in Martin
Marietta’s safety culture. The group also partnered with Martin Marietta’s Corporate Communications team to revise the

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