GES Continues to Work Safely

04/11/2008

We wish to thank everyone for their focus on performing their jobs safely, as your commitment remains the key ingredient for our continued success in keeping all, the public, GES employees and our subcontractors safe and injury-free.

In 2007, GES recorded one employee injury and one subcontractor injury, resulting in a TRIR of 0.13 (GES OSHA) and 0.25 (GES OSHA plus subcontractors). Since then, and as we close out the first quarter of 2008, GES has not logged any recordable injuries in the last 12 consecutive months or subcontractor injuries for more than 10 months.

Another statistical milestone that everyone should be very proud of is that there has not been a GES or subcontractor lost-time injury resulting from GES project work since March 31, 2004. This means that GES staff members and subcontractors have worked almost 6 million hours in four years without experiencing a lost-time injury. Our LTIR remains a perfect 0.0.

The current GES 3-year OSHA TRIR average of 0.25 is well below that of the typical engineering/ consulting company. Our goal is to have no one injured, and these statistics show that we can do it – if everyone continues to implement LPS and comply with our HSSE program requirements.

The GES HSSE executive committee will continue to track, discuss and share the trends we see across the company and within our industry. The continued requirement and support for HSSE excellence by our clients and the industry have initiated some very good improvements to our approach to safety and how we all go about our business. It is in the spirit of LPS, our behavioral-based HSSE system, that we continue to share failures when they occur along with the successes of your achievements as you continue to work safely.

Again, thank you for your efforts and support. Let’s continue to work together to ensure that the GES HSSE and LPS program elements remain a critical part of everything we do in 2008, at work as well as in our personal lives.