Xstrata Copper North Queensland.pdf - Mount Isa Mines

Workplace health and safety
We aim to operate a safe workplace that is injury- and fatality-free, and to enhance
the wellbeing of employees, contractors and communities.
Health and safety
We pursue this goal by promoting and
sustaining a culture of safety that seeks to
promote a positive attitude and awareness
of the issues involved. We provide visible
leadership and make our management
accountable for safety performance and for
training employees to improve their safety
knowledge, skills, and to make them aware
that they have a responsibility to themselves,
their family and friends to work and
behave safely.
We detect and eliminate or mitigate
conditions that pose a potential risk to
safety and health in our workplaces and
neighbouring communities. We ensure that
every task undertaken in our operations
has a safe system of work defined and that
our people have tools and equipment that
are fit for the purpose and well maintained
to complete tasks safely and productively.
In addition, through screening programs,
we monitor our employees’ health, wellbeing
and fitness for work.
Injury performance –
Xstrata Copper North Queensland
Xstrata Copper uses a risk-management
system to identify, assess and eliminate
or control safety risks. When an unsafe
condition is detected or a safety incident
occurs, it is investigated immediately and the
necessary action is taken to eliminate the
risks involved. Safety auditing takes place
regularly across our business to improve
safety standards, practices and performance.
Safety initiatives and issues are regularly
communicated to all of our people.
Our challenges
Enhancing our risk management strategies
in all aspects of our business was a strategic
initiative in 2010 with three primary
focus areas:
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Reduction of high consequence
low probability incidents
Reduction of low consequence
high probability incidents
Health and hygiene.
Disabling injury severity rate † –
Xstrata Copper North Queensland
To assist in managing these we achieved
99% completion of recording Significant
Risks, Catastrophic Hazards and High Hazard
Activities in our Risk Registers and 83%
completion of Bow-Tie assessments against
these. This process ensures risks are clearly
identified with critical control and task
owners. This data then forms the basis of
monthly and quarterly reporting and our risk
management plans which are reviewed as
part of the annual planning process.
We implemented a series of High Hazard
Activity audit and observation checklists
to monitor workforce behaviour for at-risk
acts and integrated these with enhanced
inspection programs.
Occupational Hygiene Committees were
established at each of our north Queensland
sites. Committee membership included
representatives from management,
technical experts and the workforce
to ensure a consultative and scientific
approach to the identification, evaluation
and control of hygiene hazards in the
workplace. Hygiene hazard characterisation
studies also commenced in 2010 (refer
Occupational Health section on page 32
for more information).
Number per million hours worked
30
25
20
15
10
5
19.0
16.0
10.0
1.5
0.9
0.7
8.3
0.9
7.4
0.7
Number per million hours worked
300
250
200
150
100
50
107.5
112.6
123.8
138.8
131.8
Safety performance
The Xstrata Copper North Queensland
Division values the health and safety of our
people. Safety performance is tracked using
the following measures:
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Total Recordable Injury Frequency Rate
(TRIFR), which includes all injuries except
first aid treatments
Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR)
Disabling Injury Severity Rate (DISR),
which records the number of days lost
or on restricted duties per million hours
worked.
0
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
0
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
TRIFR
LTIFR
† Previously we reported DIFR for 2006. We have now restated to show the DISR results. The Disabling Injury
Frequency Rate (DIFR) measures the number of disabling injuries x 1,000,000 divided by the number of hours
worked, the Disabling Injury Severity Rate (DISR) measures the number of disabling injury days x 1,000,000
divided by the number of hours worked.
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