Barrick Beyond Borders - May 2012 - Barrick Gold Corporation

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HEADQUARTERS OF TRANSPORTES RODRIGO CARRANZA, ONE OF THE 51COMPANIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN BARRICK’S LEAN SUPPLIER PROGRAM IN 2011.MIGDONIO MACEDO,GENERAL MANAGER OF RAMÓN CASTILLA.Barrick suppliers in Peru adopt corporate best practicesIn Peru, Barrick is working with its suppliers to help thembecome safer and more socially and environmentally responsible.Through its Lean Supplier Program (LSP), the company ispromoting its practices and leading international standards forcontinuous improvement.Established in 2008, the LSP helps Barrick suppliers and contractorsidentify opportunities to improve performance in oneor more of seven areas: safety, environment, social responsibility,continuous improvement, timely delivery, invoicing and inventorycontrol.The first stage of the program involves an evaluation todetermine where there are opportunities for improvement.Oftentimes, companies lack policies and procedures in importantareas like safety or the environment, making it difficultto develop company-wide standards, says Carlos Salguero, amember of Barrick’s Logistics and Supply Chain department inPeru who is closely involved with the program. Barrick, whichhas extensive experience in this area, helps companies createpolicy and procedure documents and provides training on howto implement them.“It’s not just about having the written documents,” Salguerosays. “It’s about putting what’s in those documents into practice,and demonstrating results.”Ramón Castilla, a general contracting firm based in the cityof Huaraz, won the LSP Safety Champion Award for the secondstraight year in 2011. While safety was always an important partof the company’s culture, Migdonio Macedo, General Managerat Ramón Castilla, says the company’s safety protocols are sodeeply ingrained now that employees practice them withouteven thinking about it. “They do it automatically,” he says. “It’san approach to safety that we learned from Barrick.”Ramón Castilla holds regular training sessions and workshopsto ensure employees are familiar with its safety policy and procedures,Macedo says. Signs predominate around the company’sheadquarters in Huaraz and at off-site projects remindingemployees to observe best practices. Meetings are held regularlyat all levels of the company to discuss safety concerns and issues,and at the end of each month, if no safety incidents have beenreported, a company-wide barbecue is held.Ramón Castilla is one of 51 Peruvian companies that participatedin the LSP last year. Transportes Rodrigo Carranza (TRC),a transportation and logistics company, is another. AnselmoCarranza, General Manager of TRC, says the company’s participationin the program was a springboard that led it to seek ISO14001 Certification for its environmental management system(EMS). ISO 14001 is an internationally recognized standardthat requires an in-depth evaluation of a company’s EMS by theInternational Organization for Standardization, a non-governmentalorganization that is the world’s largest developer andpublisher of international standards.TRC, which is based in Lima, received ISO 14001 certificationin January 2011 and was recently recertified. “Since we startedworking with Barrick, and participating in the Lean SupplierProgram, we have been exposed to a high-standards environment,”Carranza says. “It has made us a better company.” ■32May 2012
AFRICAN BARRICK GOLDABG Maendeleo Fund supportsdevelopment projects in TanzaniaIn September 2011, African BarrickGold (ABG) announced the creation ofthe ABG Maendeleo Fund, a communitydevelopment fund that will contributeto a wide range of sustainabledevelopment projects in communitiesnear ABG’s operations in Tanzania, aswell as national initiatives.The fund is the largest corporatecommunity development fund of itskind in the country. Its $10 millionannual budget more than tripledABG’s annual spending on communitydevelopment.33
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