2007 Full Report - Kinross Gold

Future ChallengesThere are a number of challenges we need to address in the area of corporate responsibility,especially given the rapid shift in our asset base and growth in our employee populationin recent years. Some key challenges include:• Finding additional ways to engage our people and seeking new ways to make progresstoward our goal of zero accidents and zero out-of-compliance environmental events• Ensuring that the culture of continuous improvement becomes deeply embeddedacross our global organization• Translating our commitment to corporate responsibility into concrete initiatives,operating metrics and policies• Improving our management of environmental issues across the board, includingenergy efficiency• Ensuring stakeholder engagement remains a fundamental and consistent partof how we operate• Responding effectively to the changing regulatory framework that is imposing newresponsibilities on mining companies around the world• Building and maintaining a viable workforce that is well-trained, well-compensatedand well-motivated. An aging workforce and the relative scarcity of talent are industrywideissues that command our full attention• Ensuring that outstanding corporate citizenship is a Kinross trademark at our newdevelopments as we bring them into production• Bringing a high standard of environmental stewardship and social responsibility tobear at our La Coipa mine, where we recently assumed responsibility as 100% ownerand operatorThe strategic prioritiesthat underpin ourcommitment to corporateresponsibility speak toour core purpose: to leadthe world in generatingvalue through miningfor all our stakeholders.And strong leadershiprequires us to takeresponsibility for ouractions and evaluate ouroperations objectively,as we have endeavouredto do in this report.Meeting these challenges will require the dedication and hard work of every Kinrossemployee and I am confident they will deliver on our commitments as they have in the past.I would like particularly to acknowledge the contributions of our environment, healthand safety team, our Corporate Responsibility Advisory Board, and our CorporateResponsibility Site Coordinators. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the Environmental,Health and Safety Committee of our Board, which has taken a keen interest and activerole in the evolution of our approach to corporate responsibility at Kinross.Outstanding corporate citizenship is one of Kinross’ four core values and we do not takeit lightly. Following on our progress in recent years, we are working diligently to make thatvalue a fundamental part of how we do business every day.TYE W. BURTPresident and CEOKinross Gold CorporationPage 05 Kinross 2007 corporate responsibility report