MARINE TRANSPORTATION, L.P.

Safety Stand Down

Tuesday 9/2/08

1. Opening Statement

·  At this very moment, 23,000 of your fellow employees have stopped work at every location in the country to focus their attention on one thing, SAFETY. This SAFETY STAND DOWN shows the commitment that Oldcastle has for SAFETY of each employee. I encourage each of you to participate in the discussions, because without your input or concerns, we cannot rectify the problems. ZERO incidents for the entire Oldcastle company sounds like a huge target. However, if every employee sets a goal to work safely everyday ZERO incidents becomes easier to achieve.

2. MEMO from Doug Black, CEO of Oldcastle

Oldcastle Materials Group

Memo

To: Oldcastle Material Employees

From: Doug Black

Date: August 25, 2008

Re: Oldcastle Materials Safety Stand Down

At Oldcastle Materials, we put enormous emphasis on the safety of our employees. We strongly believe that zero incidents is a realistic and attainable goal, and we will not be satisfied until we reach the level where none of our employees are injured at work.

With all of our efforts, however, consider what has happened at Oldcastle Materials in the past 60 days:

·  Ray Ogle of the Harrison Division lost his life when his roller over-turned and he was thrown from the equipment. Ray was not wearing his seat belt.

·  Baudelio Carrizales shattered his knee when he fell off of a flat bed truck. He was trying to perform a two-person job by himself and was working from an unsafe height with no railing or tie-off.

·  Robert Waddell was not feeling well, lost consciousness while driving a mixer truck, struck a barrier wall and turned the vehicle over in heavy traffic, narrowly missing other cars. He sustained a concussion, multiple lacerations, a broken nose, and surgery to repair his eye lid.

·  Five (5) employees were injured while lifting heavy or bulky material.

·  Three (3) employees were injured while getting on or getting off of equipment.

·  Three (3) employees were injured by slipping and falling.

·  Nineteen (19) employees of Oldcastle Materials incurred a lost-time accident.

In total we have 23,000 employees at Oldcastle Materials. On any given day 22,999 of us could be safe, and only one of us unsafe – this one unsafe act is all that is needed to produce a minor incident, a serious incident or, in Ray’s case, a terrible fatality.

Achieving zero incidents requires that every single one of us practice safe work habits everyday. This may sound unlikely, but we have six (6) companies that have gone the entire year of 2008 without a single injury, and forty three (43) that have not had a Lost Time Incident. Zero incidents is achievable!

We must all actively engage in safety and ensure that incidents like the ones mentioned above do not continue to occur. In order to emphasize the need for everyone to be safe, we are going to conduct a company-wide safety stand down on Tuesday, September 2nd. On that day at 9:30am, every employee in Oldcastle Materials is going to stop work for 20 minutes and, in our work teams, we are going to re-commit to safe behavior and zero incidents.

During the 20 minute company-wide safety stand down, I want you and your teams to discuss the following:

·  What can you and your team do to ensure zero incidents the rest of the year?

·  How should we more effectively use TRACK, THINK, SAFE, or Take-5 to prevent incidents from occurring?

·  Where can we use Performance Leadership to solve a safety problem that we face everyday?

·  Is there a problem that management can fix to help make the workplace safer? When is this going to get done (hint – now!)?

·  Are we going to commit as a team to 100% safe behaviors and zero incidents for the rest of the year?

·  Who is responsible for making sure that we stay committed (hint – look in the mirror!)?

Let’s take a fresh look at safety in our teams. I challenge each of you and your teams and companies to work incident-free from now until the end of the year.

Make it happen!

3. Year To Date Safety Statistics

Year to Date Safety Statistics – The Shelly Company – Thru July

Recordable Incidents / OMG Target Rates / 2.94 / 0.35 / 15.40
INCIDENTS / RATES
YEAR-TO-DATE / Hours / Recordable / Lost Time / Lost Days / Carry Over / Recordable / Lost Time / Lost Days
THORNVILLE / 364,354 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0.00 / 0.00 / 0.00
COLUMBUS / 220,933 / 4 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 3.62 / 0.00 / 0.00
FINDLAY / 436,500 / 2 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0.92 / 0.00 / 0.00
TWINSBURG / 262,331 / 1 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0.76 / 0.00 / 0.00
MTI/BPC / 44,659 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0.00 / 0.00 / 0.00
SHELLY GROUP TOTALS / 1,328,777 / 7 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 1.05 / 0.00 / 0.00
Shelly Group Target Rate / 2.29 / 0.14 / 3.72

Preventable Vehicle Incidents

YEAR-TO-DATE / Miles / Incident / Rate
THORNVILLE / 1,664,492 / 1 / 0.60
COLUMBUS / 322,716 / 0 / 0.00
FINDLAY / 2,113,630 / 7 / 3.31
TWINSBURG / 1,034,752 / 3 / 2.90
MTI/BPC / 12,246 / 0 / 0.00
SHELLY GROUP TOTALS / 5,147,836 / 11 / 0.00

Target Shelly = 1.51

GREAT JOB THRU JULY!!!!

STAY FOCUSED!!!!

4. Discussion Topics

Discussion Topics:

·  What can you and your team do to ensure zero incidents the rest of the year?

Comments:______

·  How should we more effectively use TRACK, THINK, SAFE, or Take-5 to prevent incidents from occurring?

Comments:______

·  Where can we use Performance Leadership to solve a safety problem that we face everyday?

Comments:______

·  Is there a problem that management can fix to help make the workplace safer? When is this going to get done (hint – now!)?

Comments:______

·  Are we going to commit as a team to 100% safe behaviors and zero incidents for the rest of the year?

Comments:______

·  Who is responsible for making sure that we stay committed (hint – look in the mirror!)?

Comments:______

5. Employee Sign-In

Employee Sign-In

Safety Stand Down

September 2, 2008

Foreman Name: ______Stand Down Time:___9:30 am_____

Print Name Signature

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