Our ninth Safety Week, with several firsts Our new InjuryFreeEnvironment.com website and a global webinar help us share our safety culture. A new time of year wasn’t the only first for our ninth annual Safety Week, held in May. Other firsts included launching our new InjuryFreeEnvironment.com website, which is a year-round resource to support and share our Injury-Free Environment® mindset, and holding a public webinar in which top executives shared with a global audience personal stories about why safety is important to them. For this year’s theme of “Learn and lead in safety… Taking the next step,” we challenged everyone to commit to taking two actions: one to improve their personal safety outside of work and another to improve the safety of their project or office. » InjuryFreeEnvironment.com is our new year-round public safety resource - be sure to visit and share the link! The website was a great success. From when it went online at the beginning of Safety Week through the end of June, InjuryFreeEnvironment.com has been viewed more than 25,000 times. Teams at our projects and offices uploaded photos of their activities – hopefully you’ve checked them out. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration praised us after viewing the Safety Week activities on our IFE website. “Wow… <strong>Skanska</strong> does such great work at protecting and educating your workforce,” said OSHA spokeswoman Gina Harps. The IFE webinar attracted 280 attendees from seven countries and 11 business units, along with government agencies, clients and subcontractors. Mike McNally, <strong>Skanska</strong> USA president and CEO, told the audience that <strong>Skanska</strong> will back you 100 percent if you stop an activity because of safety concerns. He also said that when there is an accident or a near miss, we will conduct a thorough investigation not to place blame, but to learn how to prevent future occurrences. In return, <strong>Skanska</strong> needs you to take care of yourself and your entire team. “If everybody in the pool is a lifeguard, nobody drowns,” McNally said. He added that if you’ve exhausted the normal management channels and a safety concern still isn’t addressed, you should call him directly. ◆ The gray zone: Ethics questions and answers » The American Red Cross instructed <strong>Skanska</strong> Infrastructure Development employees in Alexandria, Va., on how to properly respond to injuries. Question: Being a leader in ethics is a focus area in our 2015 Business Plan. What does this mean? Answer: Ethics is not an abstract concept. Instead, it’s part of every decision you make each day. Fundamentally, it’s about making choices of which both you and <strong>Skanska</strong> can be proud. But arriving at that answer is not always easy. Whether you work in purchasing, marketing, estimating/preconstruction, operations, human resources or another area, we all face ethical dilemmas. But you may not recognize an ethical dilemma before you if it lies in the gray zone between obvious right or wrong answers, or perhaps in our assumed comfort zone. As a leader in ethics, we must create and foster an open and engaging environment in which dilemmas and concerns are regularly discussed. It’s essential that we all understand what defines ethical leadership. Here are some key attributes that we all need to make part of our daily lives: • Treating colleagues and business partners fairly • Being transparent and honest in business dealings; a leader in ethics goes beyond what is simply legal and sets the bar for the rest of the industry • Calling out inappropriate behavior and reporting any misconduct Most importantly, we all should report concerns or observations of misbehavior without fear of retaliation (see contact information below). If you do the right thing, <strong>Skanska</strong>’s leadership will always support you. ◆ » At the Novartis Cambridge Campus Expansion near Boston, the fire department demonstrated personnel extractions using a tower crane to maneuver a rescue basket into the 50-foot-deep excavation. Have an ethics question? Either talk to your supervisor, human resources or legal representative, or an ethics and compliance officer. To report an ethics breach, contact one of those professionals, call <strong>Skanska</strong>’s confidential ethics hotline at 877-516-3385 or use the ethics hotline link on One<strong>Skanska</strong>. 2 coast to coast coast to coast 3