Health, Safety

Ensuring a safe and healthy workplace

We aim to provide a safe workplace by identifying workplace hazards, providing safe operating procedures and by involving employees and contractors in ownership of safety.
We believe incidents and accidents are preventable and that no job is so urgent it cannot be done safely.
Through appropriate training and instruction we ensure employees have the necessary skills and knowledge to work safely.
The health and safety of all persons who enter our site is important to us.

Caring for our employees

We aim to maintain an environment in which our people can excel and operate at their optimum levels.

We believe each individual makes a difference and we value their contribution.

We focus on each individual’s skills and offer further training and development.

We are committed to employing local people wherever possible.

Our operation trains and employs apprentices each year from the surrounding region.

Caring for the environment

We strive for continuous improvement in environmental performance.
We are committed to effective and responsible environmental management and rehabilitation of disturbed areas.
We have adopted a comprehensive system to identify and minimise environmental impacts.
We are engaged in an active water and energy conservation plan.
Duty of care to the environment is everyone’s responsibility.

We aim to build an effective working relationship with our local community for the enhancement of the region.
We are committed to processes that enable community businesses to supply and serve the mine’s needs.
Our business injects substantial funds each year in support of local community groups and assistance to residents of the local township of Cobar.