Our People Our purpose and values set us apart from our industry peers, providing a positive difference shared by the people that work across our operations and projects. Our people are our difference, and we continue to work together to inspire, empower and respect each other to ensure our purpose of Making a Difference is achieved. Our strong sustainability culture exists because our people are aligned with our purpose, understand our plans and help us to integrate sustainability into decision making processes at every level of the business. Key Highlights for FY22: • improved overall employee engagement score of 81% (FY21: 76%) • recognition as a Work180 Endorsed Employer for All Women, acknowledging our commitment to working towards gender equity • six participants commenced the Ngadju Traineeship Program at Nova • online learning resource LinkedIn Learning made available to all employees • IGO became a Visionary partner of the Future Female Leaders Program; and • update to our external reporting platform to encourage employees to raise misconduct concerns. of people said they are proud to work for IGO and said IGO has a work environment accepting of diverse backgrounds 89% of our overall workforce are female, with a significant improvement across all disciplines (27% in FY21) 29%1 14.1% ( 7%) Female Representation FY22 FY21 Board 43% 37.5% Senior Executive roles 43% 37.5% Total Workforce 29%1 27% 1. 24% with the inclusion of new employees from Western Areas at 20 June 2022. Traditional Owners and Communities Making a Difference is our reason for being – our purpose. IGO’s long-term success depends on our ability to build relationships with our host communities and related stakeholders. Traditional Owner support, engagement and trust are central to the sustainability of our business and we greatly value our relationship with the Traditional Owners on whose lands we operate. We continue to encourage initiatives for the sustainability of these cultural relationships so that they continue and expand for future generations. IGO operates not only through fair and respectful agreements with Traditional Owners, but through principled action and living our values. We do this by listening and respecting culture, and being honest, open and caring. IGO works with the right people for Country and supports communities impacted by our activities. We provide indigenous employment pathways, training opportunities, and encourage business partnerships to support personal empowerment and create opportunities for Aboriginal people. IGO is committed to its Corporate Giving Program and this is at the core of our engagement with our host communities. Some of the organisations that IGO have supported in FY22 include the CoRE Learning Foundation, Earbus Foundation, MADALAH, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Royal Flying Doctor Service and Teach Learn Grow. total payments made to Ngadju People during FY22. Of this payment, production royalty payments totalled $5.5M $6.5M invested in Corporate Giving in FY22 $686k volunteered by IGO people donating their time to charitable causes 314 hours We proactively prevent harm by providing a safe place of work, safe systems of work and by promoting a culture of care and wellbeing. In FY22, we continued our multifaceted approach to employee safety, health and wellbeing. We have expanded our health and wellbeing programs, which are built on three fundamental pillars: supporting our people’s physical health; mental and psychological health; and financial health. Acknowledging the increase in injury frequency measures, the business continues to progress safety‑related programs, including consolidating contractor safety assessments, improving processes to enable learnings from safety incidents to be shared and applying in-field leadership activities around safety risks. We are cognisant of the need to further review and improve on the decline of some of our lag safety indicators. Key Highlights for FY22: • Bespoke, fully subsidised IGO Health Insurance was offered to our people and their families • launch of the I-GO Well program, a person-centred program to support employees’ wellbeing; and • COVID-19 protection measures implemented – including employee care packs and dedicated internally resourced hotline. Safety andWellbeing increase in IGO’s Total Reportable Injury Frequency Rate (TRIFR) from 13.2 in FY21 to 14.1 in FY22 3% strong improvement seen IGO-wide in Employee Safety Engagement to 90% in FY22 of people felt safe performing their duties, a small increase from FY21, and significantly higher when benchmarked against our peers 97% Our Response to Climate Change Tackling climate change is the defining challenge of our time. We understand that IGO has a critical enabling role to play in providing the metals and products needed for a low carbon world. The scientific consensus is clear – the world confronts an urgent carbon problem. We know that addressing climate change effectively requires businesses, governments and society to work together. At IGO, we are focused on creating a better planet for future generations by discovering, developing and delivering the products critical to clean energy, which includes renewable energy generation, energy storage and the electrification of transport. Climate change considerations are fully integrated into IGO’s strategic and operational decision making. IGO aspires to be leaders in the acceleration to carbon neutrality. We aspire to be carbon neutral across our direct operations and activities by 2035, if not sooner, and will continue to develop a decarbonisation strategy addressing our supply chain and Scope 3 emissions. During FY22, significant work was done to accelerate our Company response to climate change, including operational decarbonisation projects, utilisation of our internal carbon price and decarbonisation fund, investment in Australian carbon offset projects, through the purchase of ACCU’s, and the commitment to expand the Nova solar farm, allowing the operation to run off 100% renewable power during daylight hours from early 2023. IGO have disclosed in line with the recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) since 2017. As a Company, we will continue to improve our climate-related disclosure, accelerate our response and investment, and act to address climate change. internal carbon price to generate $7M to $10M of internal funding in FY23 ($3.7M in FY22) $7M-$10M aspiration to be carbon neutral across our direct operations and activities by 2035 2035 addition of 10MW solar farm and 10MWh battery energy storage system at Nova Operation (to complement current 5.5MW solar farm) Renewable Expansion IGO ANNUAL REPORT 2022— 43 42 —IGO ANNUAL REPORT 2022
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