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Safety

The Doe Run Company maintains a strong corporate commitment to employee safety. Safety is part of our culture. All Doe Run facilities consistently operate at safety performance levels better than the industry average. Our commitment to safety extends to safety in the communities in which we operate, and we have implemented education programs that help keep residents safe at home.

Employee Safety

• Safety education and training for all new employees are followed by ongoing safety refresher courses.
• Safety contacts, or reminders, are part of company meetings.
• Individual milestones are regularly recognized by the company.

Community Safety

• Fencing has been erected in Herculaneum to restrict access to slag storage area.
• Doe Run also supplies respirators to protect Herculaneum homeowners from lead exposure due to lead-based paint during remodeling.
• In several areas where it has operations in the U.S., Doe Run offers High Efficiency Particulate Arresting (HEPA) vacuums to help homeowners safely and effectively clean their carpets and rugs.

Awards

• Doe Run and its predecessors have earned the highest U.S. safety honor, the United States Mine Safety and Health Administration’s Sentinels of Safety Award, 22 times.
• Doe Run’s Sweetwater Mine has twice been named the nation’s safest underground metal mine by federal and industry officials.
• In October of 2003, the Missouri Air Conservation Commission voted unanimously to recommend Glover as an attainment area under the NAAQS for lead. Glover was be the first primary lead smelter in the U.S. to achieve this designation.

Accomplishments

• The lost-time incident rate at Doe Run operations is far lower than the industry average.
• On two occasions, the Buick Resource Recycling Division posted 1 million man-hours, or seven years, without a workplace injury that forced an employee to miss work.
• In 2003, Herculaneum employees celebrated 500,000 hours worked without a lost-time incident, while Fletcher and Casteel mine employees celebrated a full year without a lost-time incident.