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SAFE OPERATIONS

New Safety Resources to Guide Company Efforts in
Years Ahead

In December 2023, the Company debuted new resources “We would expect any one of these efforts to strengthen
designed to improve safety across Martin Marietta. Based our Guardian Angel safety culture,” Hunt said. “Our
on the work of Martin Marietta’s cross-functional Safety decision to launch them together should speak volumes
Task Force and announced by Chair and CEO Ward Nye, about where we intend to go with safety at Martin
the resources include a revised edition of Martin Marietta’s Marietta.
Basic Safety Rules and a new safety icon focused on
four potential hazards. A new Wingman Alert process is
expected to debut in early 2024 to facilitate better incident
reporting.

“After several meetings and efforts to solicit feedback from
our entire employee population, the Safety Task Force
decided these resources would provide our ONE team
members with the guidance and focus needed to improve our
Guardian Angel safety culture,” said Vice President of
Safety & Health Michael Hunt, a Safety Task Force member.

Fully revised for the first time in more than five years, the
Basic Safety Rules booklet includes new or clarified
guidance on a host of potential safety areas, including
personal protective equipment (PPE), health and industrial
hygiene, mobile equipment, fleet safety and underground
mining. In addition to the updated content, the booklet
will now be printed as a pocket-sized document that can
be comfortably stored just about anywhere. The revised
edition also provides updated guidance on several safety
matters, including electrical safety, fall protection, plant
safety, welding and cutting, and fire safety, Hunt said.
Safety leadership released the revised Basic Safety Rules as
a digital draft and asked all members of Martin Marietta’s
team to review them with an eye peeled for changes that
would make them more understandable. Hunt said the
final edition would likely publish by spring 2024 with
teams then working throughout the year to fully adopt the
updated rules.

Martin Marietta’s new Guardian Angel Fundamentals icon
focuses on four hazard types that have the potential to
result in serious injuries and incidents. The hazards include
line-of-fire incidents, working at heights, energy control and
slips, trips and falls. The new icon will be promoted where
appropriate across Martin Marietta. In the Basic Safety Rules,
the icon has been added to all rules that pertain to any of
the four potential hazard areas, Hunt said.

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