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Health, Safety & Environmental Bulletin No 161

S Martin – 30 October 2009

Well done

Unlike most safety bulletins, this one was not planned in advance, carries a positive message
in that it is a thank you to all our employees for raising safety awareness to unprecedented
levels within our business.

At last December’s safety awareness day, we tried to raise the bar even further, having
already raised safety awareness by increasing our toolbox talk activity by 106% and our near
miss reporting by 77% on the previous year.

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The spur for me to write this note is that this morning, I reviewed the 174 near miss reported
by Xmo employees, which is exactly twice the number we generated in the whole of 2008; I
strongly believe that this is a direct result of increased levels of discussion between us,
increased toolbox talk activity and increased employee participation. I am particularly pleased
with the calibre of near misses, the fact that more hazards than ever have been addressed
and the danger mitigated at source and the fact that the number of near misses relating to
subcontractors has reduced, whist ones relating to ourselves have increased, indicating
increased levels of trust, confidence and honesty.

It is anecdotally clear that the IIF (Incident & Injury Free), Hearts & Minds and Talk Not Tick
workshops that we have run internally this year have been embraced and we really are seeing
genuine behavioral change from our employees and approved/accredited subcontractors.

As was communicated by text to all Xmo employees on Tuesday evening, this week was also
very special in that we were awarded the 2009 Shell LCSC Talk Not Tick Performance Award
at Shell’s Manchester Office. As well as thanking all of our employees, I have also personally
thanked representatives from Shell, Coteba and Johnson Controls, who provided the judges
for this prestigious trophy.

I’ll be happy to show each of you the award when you come into the office, but so you know
what the Award looks like, the picture below depicts Michael Hunt, HSSE Manager for Shell
UK presenting it to Kate and me.