Jacobs Receives Workplace Safety & Health Excellence Award from Singapore Ministry of Manpower

PASADENA, Calif., Aug 17, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC) announced today that it received the Workplace Safety & Health (WSH) Excellence Award from the Singapore Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and Workplace Safety & Health council. The prestigious honor was awarded in recognition of consistent performance in safety and health by Jacobs in Singapore.

The WSH Excellence Award recognizes companies and organizations that have performed well in safety and health through the implementation of sound safety and health management systems. To qualify for this award, Jacobs achieved the Gold Award standard for the last three consecutive years. Jacobs is the only engineering and construction contractor to receive the Excellence Award, the highest level of safety recognition in Singapore for 2010.

In making the announcement, Jacobs Group Vice President, Christopher E. Nagel stated, "We are proud to be one of only two companies to receive the WSH Excellence Award in 2010 and to have our world class safety performance recognized by the Government of Singapore. The Excellence Award reflects our commitment to BeyondZero(R) and our culture of caring."

Jacobs is one of the world's largest and most diverse providers of technical, professional, and construction services.

Any statements made in this release that are not based on historical fact are forward-looking statements. Although such statements are based on management's current estimates and expectations, and currently available competitive, financial, and economic data, forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain. We, therefore, caution the reader that there are a variety of factors that could cause business conditions and results to differ materially from what is contained in our forward-looking statements. For a description of some of the factors which may occur that could cause actual results to differ from our forward-looking statements please refer to our 2009 Form 10-K, and in particular the discussions contained under Items 1 - Business, 1A - Risk Factors, 3 - Legal Proceedings, and 7 - Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. We also caution the readers of this release that we do not undertake to update any forward-looking statements made herein. 

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