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OPERATIONS UPDATES

Severe Weather Awareness

The Safety Department sent out a severe weather reminder recently. Here are some items worth repeating.
Awareness and Preparedness are key factors in keeping you and your crew safe.
Awareness: Checking and paying attention to weather alerts. Understanding what those weather alerts mean. You
must raise the level of your awareness as the watches and warnings increase. Check the local weather before leaving to
start your shift. Do you have a severe weather alert set on your COMPANY PHONE? Severe Weather can move in
quickly and awareness should raise your level of your Job Briefing in this area.
Preparedness: What actions are you going to take whether you are at your machine or you are at your hotel? You
need to have thought about and job briefed on how you and your crew are going to protect yourselves during a severe
weather event.

Depending on the nature of the severe weather you should be prepared for different things.

Flash Floods: One example might be a flash Flood Warning associated with Thunderstorm Warning could cause water
to be covering roadways or even the possibility of the track roadbed washing out.

Lightening: About 25 million cloud-to-ground lightning strikes occur in the United
States each year. Typically, the vast majority of lightning victims each year are male (in
261 instances from 2006-2013, 81% of lightning fatalities were male and 19% were fe-
male.

The 30-30 Rule is an easy way to determine the threat of lightning in your area: 30 Sec-
onds: Count the seconds between seeing lightning and hearing thunder. If this time is
less than 30 seconds, lightning is a threat. Seek shelter immediately. Because electrical
charges can linger in clouds after a thunderstorm has seemingly passed, experts agree
that people should wait at least 30 minutes after the last thunder before resuming out-
door activities.
Most lightning victims are steps away from lightning safety, so don’t be apathetic about
lightning. Remember, When Thunder Roars, Go Indoors!

Congratulations to the following employees who received a promotion in March!

Rusty Mitchell was promoted to Superintendent, Field Ops

Natanael Canul was promoted to Maintenance Superintendent.
William Pass was promoted to Asst Superintendent, Field Ops

Cameron Stewart was promoted to Machine Operator-2.
Christian Marasse, John Fox, Bryant Davis, Daniel Mcgowan, Brennon Dempsey, Schyller Dieuveille and Basilio
Quiroga were promoted to Machine Operator-1.
William Young was promoted to Maintenance Specialist 2.

Allison Helms was promoted to Maintenance Specialist 1.
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