2007 Responsibility Report - English (PDF) - Barrick Gold Corporation

Improving safety and health performance is a key goal in Barrick’s Strategic Objectives. Asa major tool of our Safety and Health System, Courageous Leadership training has led to aglobal culture change that conveys the Corporate Vision of “every person going home safeand healthy every day.” Audits and inspection of processes in the Barrick Safety and HealthSystem ensure safety and health management systems are effective. As a result, 2007marks the 10th year of an improving trend in total reportable injury frequencies – a majorsafety milestone. This section of the Responsibility Report provides information on our2007 safety and health performance. For information on our management approach andadditional safety statistics, please see www.barrick.com/CorportateResponsibility.2007 PERFORMANCEIn 2007, our lost-time injury rates increased by seven percentfrom 2006 but the total reportable injury frequency ratedecreased by nine percent over the same period. Thisdecrease was overshadowed by two fatalities however. Weare deeply saddened that two contractors were fatally injuredon our sites during the year. As part of our commitment toan incident-free safety and health culture, a global team ofcertified Barrick investigators thoroughly investigated theincidents and the results, with lessons learned, were sharedacross the organization.time and total reportable injury frequency rates from previousyears to address areas that need improvement. As well, investigationof our incidents, including near misses, helps us determineroot causes and appropriate corrective actions to putinto place so that an injury does not reoccur. This knowledgeis then shared throughout the Company and reinforces ourcommitment to a safe and incident-free workplace.TOTAL MEDICAL TREATMENT INJURY RATE3.5Globally, Barrick received 398 safety and health regulatoryactions at 17 sites in 2007. While most actions were for minorissues, none were acceptable and actions were taken tocorrect the problems and to prevent their recurrence. Relatedto these regulatory actions, eight operations were fined a totalof $101,094.What do our reported safety and health statistics mean?Barrick tracks the above statistics to give us an overall pictureof our safety and health performance. Injury incidents thathave resulted in lost time from work, restricted work duty,or medical treatment (even in minor cases) are investigatedthoroughly to prevent repeat incidents. We compare our lost3.02.52.01.51.00.50.00.82.50.42.20.42.40.31.40.3 1.203 04 05 06 07Medical Aid & Restricted Duty RateLost-time Injury RateBarrick Responsibility Report 2007 25