We believe that you are our most important asset in ensuring that our financial representations are accurate and that we are in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. We want to provide you with the ability to contact us 24 hours a day, seven days a weeks in your local language. Violation of laws, compliance requirements, and company policies is unacceptable at any level of our company. Your input is imperative to help us protect our company’s reputation and financial strength.
We certainly do. In fact, you are individually responsible for promptly reporting any real or perceived violations of the law or departure from our policies. You know what is going on in our company - both good and bad. You may have initial knowledge of an activity that may be cause for concern. Your reporting can minimize the potential negative impact on the company and our people. You also may help identify issues that can improve our corporate culture and performance.
We all have the right to work in a positive environment. You are accountable for acting in an ethical manner and letting the appropriate people know if someone is not acting appropriately. By working together, we ensure that we maintain a healthy and productive environment and achieve our results with integrity. Misconduct anywhere in our company can threaten our entire company, and we want to prevent it, and, if it occurs, stop it immediately.
The Business Conduct Helpline is a communications tool. You can seek information about or guidance on the company's business practice standards. You can report a potential violation of the standards including Vulcan Material Company’s financial affairs, accounting practices, auditing matters, corruption, fraud, quality—or other serious concerns where the interest of the company or the moral or physical integrity of our people are at stake.
Except as noted below, if you have concerns about conduct which could violate or appear to violate the Program, discuss your concerns with:
If you have concerns about conduct that could constitute unlawful harassment, discrimination or retaliation, please discuss your concerns with:
If you have concerns regarding questionable accounting or auditing matters, please report them immediately to the Compliance Officer or the:
Audit Committee Chairman
P. O. Box 385014
Birmingham, Alabama 35238-5014
If you are uncomfortable raising your concerns with any of these people, please submit a report via this website or call the Company Helpline.
Yes, you may. By giving you choices, the Business Conduct Helpline systems helps ensure that our employees can seek advice or raise an ethics or compliance concern in the manner most comfortable and convenient for them.
An Internet portal never identifies a visitor by screen name. The Business Conduct Helpline system we use through our third party vendor EthicsPoint® strips away IP addresses so anonymity is maintained.
Reports are entered directly into the Business Conduct Helpline secure server to prevent any possible breach in security. These reports are only available to specific individuals within our company who are charged with evaluating the violation.
You can file a Business Conduct Helpline report from any computer that can access the Internet. You can file from home. Many public locations, including the public library, have Internet computers. If you don’t have access or are uncomfortable using a computer, you can call the toll-free Business Conduct Helpline that is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Refer to the “Make a Report by Phone” section on the home page of this site.
Yes, your report will be kept confidential to the fullest extent possible. If you report anonymously, your anonymity will be maintained . You will be asked to provide the same information that you would provide in an internet based report and an interviewer will type your responses into the Business Conduct Helpline system. These reports have the same security and confidentiality measures applied to them as the Internet reports.
When you file a report at the Business Conduct Helpline site or via our international toll-free number, you receive a unique user name and are asked to choose a password. You can return to the Business Conduct Helpline system again either by Internet or telephone and access the original report to add further information that would help resolve the open issues or answer questions posed by our company representative.
EthicsPoint® is our third party vendor providing a comprehensive Internet and telephone-based reporting tool that assists management and employees to work together to address complaints regarding ethics and compliance concerns.