Non-Competition. As the Award is intended to encourage the Participant to continue employment with the Corporation or an Affiliate, during which time the Participant will have access to Confidential Information (as defined below), including Confidential Information first developed after the Grant Date, during the term of the Participant’s employment with the Corporation or any Affiliate and for a period of two (2) years following the termination of employment, regardless of the reason for or the manner of termination, the Participant shall not, without the written consent of the General Counsel of the Corporation or their designee, in any country or countries for which the Participant had development, marketing, innovation/technology (R&D), distribution, sales, administrative, operational/supply chain or manufacturing oversight responsibilities during the last two (2) years of the Participant’s employment or was provided with regular and material access to Confidential Information regarding the Corporation’s or an Affiliate's business operations in that country or countries during the last two (2) years of the Participant’s employment, either directly or indirectly, perform duties or undertake responsibilities for a Competitor (as defined below) that are the same or substantially similar to those duties or responsibilities that the Participant performed or undertook for the Corporation or an Affiliate during the two (2) year period prior to the end of the Participant’s employment with the Corporation or an Affiliate. “Confidential Information,” for purposes of this Section 19, shall mean # statutory trade secrets; # proprietary information developed or acquired by the Corporation that does not rise to the level of a statutorily protectable trade secret and is made the property of the Corporation through this mutual Agreement of the parties; and # information that is otherwise legally protectable. Such Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to, information in whatever form (including, without limitation, in written, oral, visual or electronic form or on any magnetic or optical disk or memory storage medium, as well as other physical items wherever located, and abstracts or summaries of the foregoing) relating to the business, suppliers, customers, products, affairs and finances of the Corporation or any Affiliate for the time being confidential to the Corporation or any Affiliate, ideas, conceptions, compilations of data, and developments created by the Corporation, whether or not patentable and whether or not copyrightable, and trade secrets including, without limitation, technical data and know-how relating to the business of the Corporation or any Affiliate, or any of their suppliers, customers, agents, distributors, shareholders or management, including (but not limited to) business plans, pricing strategies, financial information, patent rights, patent applications, information concerning tenders and potential contracts, information concerning proposed product ranges, product development information, employee and salary information, research and development activities or manufacturing methods that the Participant creates, develops, receives, obtains or has knowledge of in connection with the Participant’s employment, and all other matters which relate to the business of the Corporation or any Affiliate and in respect of which information is not readily available in the ordinary course of such business to the Corporation's Competitors, whether or not such information (if in anything other than oral form) is marked confidential. “Competitor,” for purposes of this Section 19, means a person or entity who engages in a business that is the same or substantially the same as any aspect of the Business of the Corporation. “Business of the Corporation,” for purposes of this Section 19, is the development, production, sales and/or marketing of # health and hygiene products and related apparel; # washroom and workplace protective and safety products; and # the materials, packaging and other components/subcomponents of such products including, without limitation, non-wood plants and products derived therefrom including any fibers, pulps or extracts. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Participant’s residence or principal place of employment on the date of acceptance of this Award Agreement is in the States of California, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Washington or in any other jurisdiction where any provision of this Section 19(b) prohibiting post-employment competition is prohibited or otherwise restricted by applicable law, then the provisions of this Section 19(b) will not apply to the extent any such provision is prohibited or otherwise restricted by applicable law.

Non-Admission. ​ and the Participant enter into this Agreement expressly disavowing fault, liability, and wrongdoing, liability at all times having been denied. Neither this Agreement, nor anything contained in it, will be construed as an admission by either of them of any liability, wrongdoing, or unlawful conduct whatsoever. If this Agreement is not executed, no term of this Agreement will be deemed an admission by either party of any right that he/it may have with or against the other.

Non-Interference. The Executive covenants and agrees that while the Executive is employed by the Company and for a period of one (1) year immediately following the termination of the Executive’s employment with the Company for any reason, the Executive shall not, without the prior written approval of the Company, directly or indirectly, either on behalf of the Executive or any other person or entity, Interfere with the Company or any of its Related Entities.

Non-Competition. The Executive understands that the Company operates across the United States and Canada. The Executive acknowledges that the Executive’s duties as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will entail involvement with the entire range of the Company’s operations across the United States and Canada, and that the Executive’s extensive familiarity with the Company’s business and Confidential Information justifies a restriction applicable across the entire geographic footprint in which the Company provides services and does business. To the fullest extent permitted by any applicable law, the Executive covenants and agrees that during employment, and for the period of one (1) year immediately following the termination, for any reason, of the Executive’s employment with the Company (the “Non-Compete Period”), the Executive will not:

Non-Disparagement. Except as otherwise provided in [Subsection 18(a)(iii)] of this Agreement, the Executive agrees that while the Executive is employed by the Company and at all times following the termination of the Executive’s employment with the Company for any reason, the Executive will not take any action or make any statement which disparages the Company or its practices or which disrupts or impairs its normal operations, such that it causes a material adverse impact to the Company.

Non-Competition. During the Non-Competition Restricted Period, Executive agrees to not, directly or indirectly, perform duties or provide services (whether as an owner, operator, proprietor, director, officer, manager (including as a manager of personal and family investments), employee, partner, member, stockholder, equity holder, consultant, advisor, volunteer, representative, contractor, agent, lender or otherwise) for any Person that competes with any of the products manufactured or services rendered by the Company, specifically including, but not limited to, the manufacture of reference and calibration standards for nuclear medicine, the production or sale of sodium iodide I-131, and/or cobalt-60 sealed source manufacturing or recycling within the Restricted Area that: # are substantially similar to the duties or services Executive performed or provided on behalf of the Company or its Affiliates; or # may require or inevitably require disclosure of trade secrets, proprietary information or Confidential Information; provided that nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit Executive from owning, in the aggregate, not more than five percent (5%) of any class of securities of any publicly traded entity engaged in a business competitive with Company’s primary business, so long as Executive does not participate in any way in the management, operation or control of such publicly traded entity.

During the Non-Solicitation Restricted Period, Executive agrees to not, directly or indirectly, as an equity holder, member, partner, proprietor, director, manager, officer, employee, consultant, investor or in any other capacity, solicit or attempt to solicit, or take any actions that are calculated to persuade or that could reasonably be expected to persuade, any Person who is, or in the twelve (12)-month period immediately preceding the termination of the Term of Employment, has been a customer, client, owner or tenant of any property managed by the Company, vendor, supplier, distributor, licensor, licensee, sales representative, referral source, sales agent, consultant or other material business relation of the Company to cease doing business with, or to alter or limit its business relationship with, the Company.

In consideration for your employment with the Company, the financial and other benefits you received from that employment, and/or access to Confidential Information and/or Trade Secrets, as defined in this Agreement, you agree that during employment with the Company, and for a period of one (1) year following your departure from the Company, you will not (directly or indirectly, in association with others or otherwise) engage in any activity for a competitive Business (as defined below) in which # the use, disclosure, or misappropriation of the Confidential Information and/or Trade Secrets you had access to or obtained during your employment with the Company may provide the competitive Business with a competitive advantage against the Company, and/or otherwise cause harm to the Company; or # you would be in a position to solicit or otherwise contact, on behalf of the competitive Business, any current or prospective Company customers and clients with whom you had personal contact or about whom you learned Confidential Information and/or Trade Secrets. The foregoing includes, without limitation, engagement as an officer, director, proprietor, employee, partner, manager, member, investor (other than as a holder of less than 2% of the outstanding capital stock of a publicly traded corporation), guarantor, consultant, advisor, agent, sales representative or other participant within any State in which the Company does business. For the avoidance of doubt, the term “State” as used in this agreement shall be interpreted to include any legal territory of the United States where the Company does business, including, by way of example, the District of Columbia. Further, for purposes of these Standard Terms and Conditions, the term “Business” means the transportation of goods in interstate commerce and related services in or through or for any State in which the Company or any of its affiliates provides such services directly or indirectly and any other activity that supports such operations including by the way of example but not limitation, marketing, information systems, logistics, technology development or implementation, terminal services and any other activity of the Company or any of its affiliates related to providing such services. This Section 5(G) is not intended to prevent you from engaging in any activity that is not substantially the same as or competitive with the Company’s Business.

During the period commencing on the date hereof and ending on December 31, 2023 (or, if earlier, either # the date that is 30 days after the Company receives written notice from Executive that the Company has materially breached this Agreement if such breach is not cured by the Company within such 30-day period or # the date that is two years after the last day of Executive’s service with the Company), Executive will not, directly or indirectly, for himself or on behalf of any person or entity, solicit or attempt to solicit any of Southern’s or its subsidiaries’ employees to leave their employment with Southern or any such subsidiary. The provisions of this Section 10 shall only apply to those persons employed by Southern or its subsidiaries at the time of the solicitation or attempted solicitation, shall not restrict the hiring of any person which occurred without any recruitment or solicitation by Executive (including by reason of placing a general advertisement to hire which is not targeted at the employees of Southern or any subsidiary), and shall not prevent Executive from responding to contacts initiated by such employees or providing references if requested by any such employee.

Non-transferability. During the Outside Director’s lifetime, Options shall be exercisable only by such Outside Director. Options shall not be transferable other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution upon the Outside Director’s death. Notwithstanding anything in this [subsection 8(f)] to the contrary, Outside Directors shall have the right to transfer Options, subject to the same terms and conditions applicable to Options granted to the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation under Committee Rules.