Health and safety is a priority across all our activities.
Health & Safety
Health and safety is a priority across all our activities. We will never knowingly compromise our established health, safety or environmental standards to meet operational objectives. Our goal is always to ensure the safety of all the people involved in our operations and to protect the environment.
Health Policy
We will carry out our business so that people remain unharmed – managing medical and occupational risks systematically so that we:
- Comply with the law
- Set health-related targets – monitoring and reporting performance against them
- Identify and assess potential health hazards and impacts for new developments as they affect employees, contractors and host communities – putting appropriate controls in place to manage them
- Establish and apply health standards across the Company – including fitness for work
- Monitor the health of employees and require contractors to do likewise – correcting any negative health trends
- Analyze accident and sickness incidents to identify acute and chronic health hazard control failures and take any necessary action
- Provide and maintain all workplaces, accommodation and catering services according to legal requirements.
- Respond effectively to accidents and medical emergencies
- Prohibit smoking in all operational and restricted areas and other Company assets as considered necessary
- Prohibit the consumption of alcohol and illegal non-prescribed drugs by personnel working at nominated operational facilities, and discipline those found to be under their influence at work or on duty
- Ensure that Company and contractor personnel know of any infectious disease risk at locations where they work and that those affected receive support through disease prevention and counseling if needed
- Specify in contracts the health requirements and standards to be met by contractors and their subcontractors
- Be able to demonstrate that health risks and issues are known and responsibly managed within operation
- Carry out periodic health risk audits and assessments as part of the continuous improvement process
Safety Policy
We will carry out our business so that people are not harmed – managing safety systematically so that we:
- Comply with the law
- Set safety-related targets – monitoring and reporting performance against them
- Establish criteria for assessing safety risk tolerability
- Identify safety hazards and unwanted events with potential to injure or kill people, damage assets, interrupt operations and ultimately threaten our reputation over the life cycle of each operation
- Assess safety risks and establish controls to manage them so that residual risks always meet tolerability criteria
- Establish and apply safety standards across the Company
- Monitor safety performance and correct unwanted trends
- Analyze accidents and incidents to identify root causes and prevent recurrence
- Develop procedures to support safe working
- Respond effectively to accidents and emergencies
- Specify in contracts the safety requirements and standards to be met by contractors and their subcontractors
- Be able to demonstrate that safety risks are known and responsibly managed within operations
- Carry out periodic safety risk audits and assessments as part of continuous improvement
