Safety
Safety is at the core of everything we do and we are committed to providing a safe working environment.
Our commitment
We are committed to providing a safe, healthy and supportive workplace – physically and psychosocially – across all our operations.
Our commitment extends to full compliance with all applicable health and safety legislation governing our activities, particularly the Work Health and Safety Act 2020 (WA) and the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2022.
Our approach
Our Health and Safety Management System is designed to ensure a safe and healthy workplace while complying with legislative and company standards. Delivered by dedicated Health and Safety professionals, it manages hazards and risks throughout our operations.
We learn from health and safety incidents by investigating and understanding the root causes of incidents and implement effective improvements to our systems and practices to strengthen our safety culture and prevent future occurrences.
We actively engage our people ensuring they are meaningfully involved in safety-related discussions and are supported with the necessary training so they carry out their roles safely and competently.
Our Health and Safety Management System is continually reviewed to ensure improvement, including monitoring objectives and targets, reviewing and refining policies and procedures, incorporating feedback from internal and external stakeholders and responding to changes in legislation.
- Leaders demonstrate accountability and personal commitment to our core health, safety and wellness principles.
- Our people feel safe to raise concerns and speak truthfully about matters that impact their health, safety and wellbeing.
- People make informed and innovative decisions that prevent harm without constraining core business activities, drawing on knowledge and leveraging technology.
- We analyse success and failure with equal rigour and use both as opportunities for learning and continuous improvement.
- Everyone has the confidence that their health, safety, and wellbeing are protected and given the highest priority.
Managing risk is central to our approach and involves hazard identification, analysis, evaluation and treatment. Ongoing verification of control and their effectiveness ensures risks are either eliminated or managed responsibly.
The MinRes Risk Appetite Statement is a foundational element of our Risk Management Framework and approach to health, safety and psychosocial safety. We remain dedicated to continuously improving our approach to hazard and risk management throughout the organisation.
Our commitment to robust risk management is demonstrated through several ongoing key initiatives, including our:
- enterprise risk management platform
- psychosocial risk management framework and control effectiveness reviews
- fatality prevention program (critical risk management)
- injury prevention program
- occupational illness prevention program
- contractor management framework.
Our Hazard and Risk Management Procedure defines the minimum requirements to identify, analyse, evaluate, control, monitor and review occupational hazards, exposures and risks within the business, ensuring consistent management across the business.
We identify all principal mining hazards specific to our operations in line with provisions in the Work Health and Safety (WHS) Mines Regulations 2022. Our approach to identifying and assessing principal mining hazards, we implement a Principal Mining Hazard Management Plan across our mining operations.
Facilitators of hazard and risk assessment processes must be trained and competent in the tools and techniques utilised.
Fostering a strong safety culture is paramount to ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of MinRes employees, contractors and visitors. Through open communication and supportive leadership, we empower all employees and contractors to actively maintain a safe workplace.
MinRes sites, projects and departments have dedicated Health and Safety professionals who actively engage in site-level health and safety matters, and are further supported by our operational and corporate Health and Safety teams. To ensure effective communication and consultation on relevant health and safety matters, MinRes operations are committed to:
- Providing timely and relevant health and safety information to all stakeholders
- Facilitating regular health and safety meetings, such as pre-starts and toolbox talks, to discuss and promote safety performance
- Equipping management teams with sufficient information to support well-informed decision-making
- Valuing the input of employees and contractors by involving them in the decision-making process regarding workplace health and safety
- Offering employees the opportunity to share their views and understand the rationale behind health and safety decisions that may affect them
- Making health and safety information available in a clear and accessible format upon request
- Supporting elected health and safety representatives to further strengthen our workforce’s safety outcomes.
We are dedicated to improving data reporting and analytics, particularly through the functionality of our health and safety reports. These reports provide insights into various aspects of safety such as lead and lag indicators, incident and action analysis, which offer valuable information to facilitate informed decision-making across MinRes and enhance our safety culture.
All MinRes employees, contractors, subcontractors and visitors are required to complete mandatory healthy and safety inductions for eery operation.
MinRes continually reviews and refines its training and onboarding processes to ensure all personnel receive training relevant to their roles. Recommended training requirements are identified for specific job roles to ensure that employees are suitably experienced and qualified to perform their duties safely.
MinRes continues to enhance safety leadership through our Work Health and Safety (WHS) for Leaders and Senior Leaders programs, which is mandatory for all supervisors and leaders in statutory positions. This program addresses core supervisory skills, including statutory responsibilities, duty of care, safety leadership, WHS legislation, communication, hazard and risk management, workplace inspections, change management, crisis and emergency management, contractor management and incident management.
Our suppliers are an important part of our workforce and are integral to the safe delivery of high-quality products and services to our customers.
Our Contractor Management Procedure outlines the process for verifying that contractor and subcontractor groups have the necessary skills, resources, licenses and equipment to safely undertake work activities across our operations.
Key elements of successful contractor engagement at MinRes include:
- A prequalification process tailored to the relevant contractor category
- Submission of safety documentation specific to the scope of work
- Completion of required inductions and compliance requirements
- Implementation of checks, balances, and completion of the authorisation to commence work form
- Ongoing supervision and performance monitoring
- Supplier demobilisation process and post engagement evaluation.
Key documents
To support our commitment, we have established a robust framework of policies, standards and procedures:
- Health and Safety Policy
- Injury Management Policy
- Fitness for Work Policy
- Hazard and Risk Management Procedure
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