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

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Barrick and Safety & HealthSafety Committees and TrainingBarrick believes that everyone is responsible for workplacesafety. Safety committees and safety training programs are inplace at all operations and projects. These programs areintended to provide employees and contractors with a clearunderstanding of their rights, responsibilities and accountabilitiesin creating and maintaining a safe workplace for all. In2007, over 745,000 hours of safety training and 89,000 hoursof emergency response training were provided to Barrick’semployees and contractors.Continuous ImprovementCourageous Safety Leadership Refresher training was also conductedthroughout 2007. These refresher courses are designedto support the culture of safety across the entire Company.The refresher courses are designed to provide a platform for allemployees and contractors for continuous safety improvementand sharing of best safety practices; the goal – a zero-incidentworkplace. Work-related injuries or illnesses are unacceptableand Courageous Safety Leadership strengthens our commitmentto build a safety culture where every employee is thinkingabout safety every day, whether on the job or at home.This year, Barrick has put into effect at all our operations athree-tiered, risk-based approach to decision making. The firsttier, High Level Risk Assessments, and the second tier, FormalRisk Assessments, were completed in 2007. The final tier, thecreation of “everyone is a risk manager” through the use ofField Level Risk Assessments was begun in mid-2007 and willbe completed in 2008. These assessments are assisting oursafety and management leaders in making the best decisionsfor employees to accomplish their tasks safely and withoutincident. We believe that safety is everyone’s responsibility andour risk-based approach helps us to meet the challenge ofcreating a workplace culture that embraces safety.AwardsOur emergency response teams are dedicated safety professionalsthat exhibit Barrick’s values and raise the bar with extensivetraining and competition. We received 53 external safetyawards in 2007. Many of our operations won site awards fromregulators and industry organizations for being safe mineswithin their jurisdictions, and individual employees receivedawards for modeling safe behaviors.Courageous Safety Leadership Appliesat Work and at Home.The knowledge gained through Courageous SafetyLeadership training is often applied in other areas of ouremployees’ lives. For example, Porgera mine siteemployee, Alfred Kumasi, learned first hand just howimportant courageous leadership can be outside of work.While on a field break, Alfred made a difficult decision hebelieves saved his and his family’s life.Alfred and his family hadgone shopping in thenearby town and werewaiting for the publicmotor vehicle to returnhome to their village. Ashe loaded his goods andfamily into the vehicle, henoticed that there were noseatbelts. He immediatelygathered up his family and goods and disembarked fromthe vehicle, much to his family’s frustration. Because it wasthe last vehicle of the day, Alfred and his family had tospend the night in town. The following day, however, hisfamily realized the full impact of Alfred’s decision whenthe news came that the vehicle he and his family hadchosen not to board collided with another truck in routeto the village, killing six people. “Through working atPorgera,” Alfred stated, “I have learned about many safetyinitiatives, including vehicle safety and training. That day,when I made the split decision to get out of the vehicle,was proof of how much this training has affected myhabits and attitudes. I have never appreciated my safetytraining as much as I did that day.”Alfred clearly embodies what Barrick’s Courageous SafetyLeadership program stands for. He made a CourageousLeadership decision to find a safe solution that ultimatelyprotected his life and that of his family.“Strong leadership is an essential ingredient to allaspects of our business. A safe workplace is at thetop of the list.”– Greg Wilkins, Barrick C.E.O.The annual Barrick Safety Awards recognize those locationsthat have achieved outstanding safety performance, and thoseindividuals who have shown courageous safety leadership. Fora complete list of awards (both internal and external), pleasesee our website.26 Barrick Responsibility Report 2007
Barrick Health SystemOver the last several years, Barrick has made significantprogress in addressing both occupational health and generalhealth issues affecting its employees. In 2007, we continued tointegrate the Barrick Health System into the day-to-day operationat each of our sites. Working alongside the Barrick SafetySystem, the Health System is designed to allow the Company’soperations to look at health challenges in a systematic way tooptimize employee health and well-being.The Health System has six elements with specific goals andstandards associated with these elements. They include:Leadership and Personal Commitment; Policy and Objectives;Planning; Health Risk Assessment; Program andImplementation; and Performance Measurement andAssessment. The key element of the Barrick Health System,however, is the same as the Safety System – Leadership andPersonal Commitment. Our Health System supports the conceptof Courageous Leadership at all levels of the organization;that each individual can make a difference.To support our Health System, a data management softwaresystem has been implemented globally to facilitate collection ofoccupational health information and improve the managementof health risks. An audit protocol based on the Barrick HealthSystem was developed and corporate teams began auditingour sites on these protocols. Site occupational health audits willcontinue through 2008 to assist our sites in identifying additionalimprovements and opportunities. We also introduced aglobal “Smoke Free Policy” late in 2007. The policy prohibitssmoking in the workplace and provides support for those whowish to quit.HIV/AIDSBarrick’s HIV/AIDS programs, which serve our employees andthe wider community where our sites operate, are focused onOne element of the Barrick Safety System is training.This includes emergency response preparedness trainingas shown above.at-risk countries such as Tanzania, Papua New Guinea andSouth Africa. These programs are multifaceted and encompassprevention, treatment, counseling and care. In 2007, weopened a newly reconstructed health clinic providing HIV/AIDSservices near the company’s Porgera mine in Papua NewGuinea and will soon open a new health facility at theCompany’s Tulawaka mine in Tanzania.Regional PerformanceAll across the globe, Barrick’s commitment to a safe andhealthy workplace can be demonstrated. In 2007, for example,our South American Region issued a new policy on controllingfatigue and raising awareness about the importance of healthylifestyles. Near our North Mara mine in Tanzania, we have completeda major project that upgraded Nyamongo Hospital froma basic dispensary to a full hospital that delivers a wide rangeof medical services to our employees and communities surroundingthe mine. The Ruby Hill mine in Nevada, after severalyears of closure, has reopened and, in continuing their longtradition of safe operation, was awarded two prestigious safetyawards from the Nevada Mining Association and the U.S. MineSafety and Health Administration (MSHA). Our Kanowna minein Western Australia demonstrated their commitment to“safety before production” when they shut down the mine’sfleet of haul trucks for a day to make improvements to theirtraffic management system for vehicles traveling underground.Similar commitments are demonstrated globally by all ouremployees who contribute, encourage, and promote a safeworkplace as well as make safety a priority every day with theirfamilies and within their communities. Safety is everyone’sresponsibility.Barrick Responsibility Report 2007 27
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