SAFETY
on Mining & Metals (ICMM) members share an unwavering commitment to the health and safety of employees and are working to eliminate fatalities, towards a goal of zero harm. Regrettably, fatalities do continue to occur, and in 2020, 44 workers from ICMM member companies lost their lives. A single fatality is one too many and as an industry we must do better. We believe everyone has a role to play to make sure that workers return home safely.
TRANSPARENCY Since 2012, ICMM has transparently measured and disclosed the safety performance of company members through an annual safety data benchmarking report. Tis report aims to catalyse learning across the industry and transparently show where ICMM members are in their journey towards eliminating fatalities. Over time, this data has informed leadership discussions about the step change required to reach this goal and supports an evidence-based approach to ICMM’s work on health and safety.
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afe working conditions are a fundamental human right at the heart of every responsible mining company. Te International Council
As a commitment of ICMM membership, companies are also required to report their safety data in their annual sustainability reports in line with Global Reporting Indicators (GRI) reporting requirements. By collating ICMM company member data in this report we can present the data in a much more comparable way using a common set of indicators.
2020 SAFETY DATA Regrettably, 44 fatalities occurred across ICMM company members in 2020. Tis compares to 287 in 2019, which includes the 250 lives lost in the tragic Brumadinho tailings dam collapse, and 50 fatalities recorded in 2018. Te report analyses fatalities based on the cause (or ‘hazard’) and provides safety performance metrics by county and company. In 2020, 12 fatalities were caused by ‘fall of ground’ incidents, and eight were related to mobile equipment and transportation. Company member operations
Mark Holmes presents the mining industry’s latest safety data and explains that despite a welcome improvement in performance, continued vigilance is needed
in South Africa had the highest fatality rate of 0.052, recording 22 fatalities from 422.1 million hours worked. Operations in Indonesia recorded six fatalities and Brazil four, where 80.6 and 353.3 million hours were worked, respectively. In 2020, 12 members reported zero fatalities, including Antofagasta Minerals, BHP, Hydro, JX Nippon, Minera San Cristobal, Minsur, MMG, Newcrest, Newmont, Rio Tinto, Sumitomo Metal Mining and Teck Resources.
Tis data on fatalities is in stark comparison with total recordable injury statistics. Tere was a 10% decrease in the number of total recordable injuries 2019 to 2020, with the overall injury rate decreased from 3.20 in 2019 to 2.94 in 2020.
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