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January 12, 1996

All Employees of Denver Branch
Leonard Schwartz, Branch Manager
New Loss-Prevention System

As you may have recently heard, lately we received news from the corporate headquar ters of the company that it would be in
the best interest of the entire company to pay more attention to matters of preventing accidents and any other safety-related
measures that affect the workplace, including both office and field activities related to all types of jobs that we complete.
Every single employee in each office at every branch needs to be ever mind ful in this regard so that he is most efficient and
effective in the daily performance of his everyday tasks that relate to his job responsibilities such that safety is always of
para mount concern.
With this goal of safety ever present in our minds, I believe the bottom line of the emphasis on safety could be considered to
be the training that each of us receives in his first, initial weeks on the job as well as the training provided on a regular basis
throughout each year of our employment with McDuff, so that we are always aware of how to operate in a safe man ner. The
training vehicle gives the company the mechanism to provide each of you with the means to become aware of the elements of
safety that relate to the specific needs and requirements of your own particular job. Therefore, at this point in time I have
come to the conclusion in the process of contemplating the relevance of the new corporate emphasis on safety to our
particular branch that we need, as a branch, to give much greater scrutiny and analysis to the way we can prevent accidents
and emphasize the concern of safety at every stage of our operation for every employee. Toward this end, I have asked the
training coor dinator, Kendra Jones, to assemble a written training program that will involve every single employee and that
can be implemented beginning no later than June of this year. When the plan has been written and approved at the various
levels within the office, I will conduct a meeting with every department in order to emphasize the major and minor
components of this upcoming safety program.
It is my great pleasure to announce to all of you that effective in the next month (February) I will give a monthly safety
award of $100 to the individual branch employee at any level of the branch who comes up with the best, most useful
suggestion related to safety in any part of the branch activities. Today I will take the action of placing a suggestion box on the
wall of the lunchroom so that all of you will have easy access to a way to get your suggestions for safety into the pipeline and
to be considered. As an attachment to the memo you are now reading from me I have provided you with a copy of the form
that you are to use in making any suggestions that are then to be placed in the suggestion box. On the last day of each month
that we" work, the box will be emptied of the completed forms for that month, and before the end of the following week a
winner will be selected by me for the previous month's suggestion program and an announcement will be placed by me to
that effect on the bulletin board in the company workroom.
If you have any questions in regard to the corporate safety program as it affects our branch or about the suggestion program
that is being implemented here at the Denver office at McDuff, please do not hesitate to make your comments known either
in memorandum form or by way of telephonic response to this memorandum.