Safety

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.