Fluor Achieves Nine Million Safe Work Hours Supporting FEMA's Hurricane Katrina Relief Effort

Irving, TX — Fluor Corporation's FEMA team providing hurricane relief efforts along the United States' Gulf Coast recently achieved one of its largest milestones when it surpassed nine million safe work hours on the project. This achievement demonstrates the dedication to safety of thousands of Fluor employees who were able to meet this challenging task.

For more than a year, Fluor employees and its subcontractors and vendors have worked in Louisiana to provide shelter to more than 160,000 storm victims and return normalcy to those communities spread across 39,000 square miles. During the FEMA support contract, Fluor delivered and provided maintenance for more than 55,000 travel trailers to serve as homes for those displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Over the course of the project, Fluor employees drove more than 67 million miles, roughly equivalent to driving around the earth's equator 2,730 times. At its peak, Fluor's FEMA project team numbered nearly 4,500.

"When we began this important work for the people in Louisiana, we knew it would not be easy based on our previous work on other natural disasters. However, all of our employees deployed to this project have worked, often times around the clock and seven days a week, to help get the families, businesses and communities affected by Hurricane Katrina back on the road to recovery," said Fluor's Government Group President John Hopkins.

"I'm very proud of our work in Louisiana and the Gulf region, and I thank every person who touched this project for keeping safety a priority throughout its execution. Once we've again shown that Fluor can complete the most complex projects while maintaining our focus on safety. This safe work hour accomplishment is really a testament to the people of Fluor," said Senior Vice President of Fluor's Government Group James Cartner.

While achieving the nine million hour plateau was a great accomplishment, it was not without its issues. "Many of the local hires Fluor brought on for the project were not acquainted with our focus and culture of safety. However, many of the same people, after learning about and embracing Fluor's safety culture, became a driving force behind the project's safety success," said Fluor's FEMA Project Manager Bob Funkhouser.

SOURCE: Fluor Corp.