Lundin Roofing Company is committed to providing a safe working environment for all employees. To reach this goal, management is diligent in making sure that all our employees are properly equipped and receive the most current training. Our compensation program includes a 'safety bonus' program to reward our employees for safety on the job. These safety oriented measures are working.

When Lundin Roofing Company implemented this new safety program in 1989, our workman's compensation experience modifier was 1.9. Within two years the experience modifier for Lundin Roofing Company dropped below 1.0 and since 1991 has stayed below .87. The experience modifier for 1997 and 1998 was .75, which has allowed Lundin Roofing to offer better pricing and service to its customers.

For Lundin Roofing Company, safety equipment and procedures are built into every job. For the safety of our employees and the security of our customer's property, Lundin Roofing Company commits sufficient resources on every job to ensure that job safety is a fundamental principle on every job bid. Unless 'safety comes first,' Lundin Roofing Company doesn't do the job.

Lundin Roofing uses a pro-active approach to safety training that provides constant reinforcement for the proper use of safety equipment and safety practices/procedures in the field.

• Lundin Roofing subscribes to the National Roofing Contractors Association's (www.roofonline.org) "Toolbox Talks" program. This program gives our crew foremen a weekly safety topic for training, along with illustrated examples for working demonstrations with each crew, plus a tracking procedure to ensure that each employee attended the training and fully understood the topic. These topics are specific to the roofing trade and cover subjects as elementary as the proper use of a ladder to high-level fall prevention for commercial and industrial applications.
   
• Quarterly safety meetings for every employee of Lundin Roofing are conducted at the main office. Attendance at these safety meetings is mandatory and ensures that management reinforces to every employee that Lundin Roofing is committed to safety.
  
  
• Another part of our safety program is formal classroom training. All employees are required to pass the Generic Safety & Health Orientation (GSHO) training that is administered by The Safety Council of the Louisiana Capital Area. For continued safety training, every year all employees are required to attend a four-hour refresher course.  

Additionally, many of Lundin Roofing Company's clients have their own safety orientation programs that are mandatory prior to our employees being able to work in their plants. Although these safety programs are usually specific to the individual plants where our employees are working, the information is invaluable and is a further augmentation of correct safety procedures.

Safe equipment and good training is of little use if the employees are not motivated to be safe on the job. Our motivation plan is quite simple, good safety procedures are rewarded and improper behavior is not tolerated.

• Lundin Roofing's Safety Incentive Program provides extra pay for each calendar quarter that has no OSHA reportable injuries and/or accidents. In addition to this quarterly extra pay program, if Lundin Roofing has had no reportable injuries and/or accidents for the entire year, each employee is given an added pay bonus. Through this program our employees learn that 'safety pays', both for the company and themselves.
  
  
• Conversely, Lundin Roofing does not tolerate a lackadaisical attitude towards safety and demands strict adherence to its safety, alcohol and drug abuse programs. Even minor violations are dealt with immediately and can lead to suspension or discharge if not corrected.