Safety, Health and Wellbeing

SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELLBEING

At IGO, the safety, health and wellbeing of our people is our highest priority. The nature of our mining and processing activities poses potential health, safety and wellbeing hazards to our workforce and it is important that we proactively prevent harm. We actively seek to achieve a positive safety culture by creating physically and psychologically safe workplaces, safe systems of work and an environment where we all take responsibility for our safety, health and wellbeing.

Our approach to safety, health and wellbeing is guided by the IGO Safety and Wellbeing Policy, which sets out our safety and wellbeing commitments.

View IGO’s Safety and Wellbeing Policy here.

Health and hygiene management is essential to creating a healthy and safe working environment. Our operational health and hygiene management programs cover occupational hygiene monitoring, health surveillance activities such as audiometric testing, as well as training and education. We seek to manage our workplace environments in a way that effectively minimises the exposure of our people to hazards that may cause long-term or chronic health impacts.

The health and wellbeing of our people is a fundamental part of their safety and engagement. I-GO Well is our custom-tailored health and wellbeing program, which aims to inspire our people to look after their physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

IGO’s operations have distinct phases of work that can give rise to specific hazards, including phases relating to exploration, the design and construction of plant, starting new projects or operations, routine operations, care and maintenance, and mine closure.

We assess work activities to identify all potential safety, health and wellbeing hazards and apply the hierarchy of control to manage risks so far as is reasonably practicable. Our safety systems of work include personal and team-based risk assessments, permit to work systems, correct tool availability and selection, active supervision, and continual training. Our workforce is actively supported to stop unsafe activities and trained in the safety, health and wellbeing issue resolution process.

Our company-wide risk management system describes our minimum requirements for identifying, analysing, evaluating, treating, monitoring, communicating, and reporting on health and safety critical hazards. We continue to focus on continuous improvement in critical risk management as part of improving our safety performance.

View IGO’s Risk Management Policy here.

At IGO we measure and track our safety, health and wellbeing performance against a range of performance metrics. For further information on our safety, health and wellbeing progress and performance,  refer to our IGO Sustainability Report and Sustainability Databook.