INDEPENDENCE GROUP NL SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2018

CASE STUDY / SAFETY VISUAL SAFETY LEADERSHIP In order to support the ongoing situational awareness of our personnel and collaborative approach to keeping our people safe, IGO has introduced the Visible Safety Leadership Interactions program. This program involves people leaders getting out into the field to engage with personnel at the job front. They discuss the good safety practices they observe, reinforce the relevant procedures or standards and correct any practices that do not provide the best protection to our people, plant or environment. A comprehensive training program has been developed and rolled out throughout the organisation in order to equip our people leaders with the relevant knowledge and skills required to get the most out of these important opportunities. Safety leadership must be visual. It must be seen. It must be felt. If we do this well, it is our firm conviction that we will create a better workplace. Over the past 12 months, we have begun tracking the number of visual safety leadership interactions completed by all of our leaders. More than a simple count, we are also completing work to monitor the quality of these interactions. IGO will continue to pursue improvements in this area during FY19, including increased internal communications among our employees, suppliers and contractors to continue to build awareness and infuence behaviour. Good health and wellbeing During FY18, IGO has focused on improving the health and wellbeing of our employees by implementing a number of wellness initiatives across the business. A key initiative has been the introduction of a worksite fitness and rehabilitation (WFR) program that saw a number of exercise physiologists support the IGO team. The WFR program provided an array of health and wellness activities including gym classes, monthly fitness challenges, health presentations, manual handling training, nutrition seminars and personal medical assessments. IGO also implemented an Injury Prevention Program, involving warm up for work presentations, and the introduction of daily morning stretching sessions available to all employees during the reporting period. The morning stretch sessions are run by employees who volunteer their time to both motivate participation and stand in front of the group to lead the exercises. The sessions includes both IGO employees and contractors. IGO is pleased to note that our mining contractor at Nova, Barminco Ltd, has been a proactive supporter and leader in this initiative. IGO is passionate about our employees, contractors and their families health and wellbeing and we will continue to introduce additional initiatives in FY19 and beyond. CASE STUDY / HEALTH HEALTH AND WELLBEING Good health and wellbeing IGO SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2018— 61

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