March 2005

(San Antonio, Texas) - After three years of meticulous record keeping and a tireless team effort to maintain one of the safest workplaces in the industry, ZCC’s Equipment Department has earned the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s (OSHA) highest honor.

The OSHA Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) Star Award recognizes the team’s outstanding safety accomplishments within a corporate equipment support department —specifically, it recognizes the implementation of a comprehensive
safety and health management system.

No safety recognition is more inclusive and difficult t achieve than OSHA Star status," said Corporate Safety Director Warren Davis. “Maintaining such an enviable level of performance requires a total commitment from management
and craftworkers alike. Every employee must be involved, knowledgeable and fully engaged, because meeting OSHA Star standards takes an incredible amount of practical and written execution of the entire safety program, practices and processes. We are very proud of this outstanding achievement.”

OSHA’s verification includes an application review and a rigorous on-site evaluation by a team of OSHA safety and health experts. The verification qualifies sites to one of three programs, including Star, Merit and Star Demonstration.
Sites that qualify must submit annual self-evaluations and undergo periodic on-site re-evaluations to remain in the program.

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