SAFETY

INTRODUCING SAFETY.CAT.COM

Your source for materials dedicated to promoting the safety of everyone who works in, on or around Cat^® equipment. This site includes information on jobsite safety, product safety and features chekclists for various types of equipment.

Visitors to the site will find information that reinforces safety messages found in the company’s official Operation and Maintenance Manuals (OMM). The site also covers the world of safety in motion. For the first time, Caterpillar videos on walkaround inspections and operating tips are available on demand from one online source.

Other SAFETY.CAT.COM offerings include OMM excerpts, multimedia pieces, and toolbox talks on a variety of safety topics. With information spanning the entire Cat product line, SAFETY.CAT.COM is one of the most comprehensive safety sites for the governmental agencies Caterpillar serves.

Gregory Poole is committed to creating and maintaining a safe, clean, and environmentally sound environment by focusing our efforts on the following areas:

• Associates are educated and trained on proper work techniques to prevent accidents. It works!
• Each branch location is provided with specific audits and auditing techniques to assist them in addressing and correcting safety and environmental concerns.
• Associates are trained and provided with proper personal protective equipment according to their job function and working environment.
• Each branch has a safety committee that serves as an internal safety auditing and communications network to reduce and eliminate accidents.
• Safety committees and management aggressively participate in accident investigations to determine cause and remedy.
• We offer incentives to all Associates who accomplish top performance for reduction of accidents.

• All contaminated waste products generated from service activities at Gregory Poole Equipment Company are totally recycled. There are no contaminated waste streams entering landfills.
• We offer environmentally safe equipment from manufacturers and affiliated product vendors.

• Gregory Poole Equipment Company compliments 'hands-on' safety and environmental training with classroom training using current web-based technology via the Internet. Expedient delivery, quality content, automatic and immediate database collection of training records result from the web-based medium.
• All new operations employees receive immediate training in personal protective equipment, right-to-know (hazard communication), back injury prevention, energy deactivation of equipment (lock out/tag out), lift truck operator safety, electrical safety, emergency evacuation plans, and fire control and prevention.

• Attain the North Carolina Department of Labor OSHA STAR status which exemplifies excellence in accident prevention and regulatory compliance through management commitment and overall program development.