Safety
Safety, as one of Glencore’s Values, drives how we do business, and the safety of our workforce always comes first. Our business inherently exposes some of our workers to safety risks .
Why SafeWork and how has it evolved, watch the animation
Why SafeWork and how has it evolved, watch the animation
Our approach
We are committed to protecting our workforce by creating safe workplaces, where we continually work towards improving safety performance through controls that eliminate and mitigate residual risks. We maintain a proactive safety culture, led by strong and visible leadership, and implement management systems with the appropriate controls in place for the management of our safety risks.
We focus on increasing our workforce’s capability to work safely and empower them to stop work when it is not safe. We require an effective health and safety management system at each industrial asset for the management of safety risks, designed to ensure the integrity of plant and equipment, structures, processes and protective systems, as well as the monitoring and review of critical controls.
Implementing our safety management system
SafeWork is our approach to eliminating fatalities. SafeWork has a set of minimum expectations and mandatory fatal hazard protocols (FHPs), life-saving behaviours and safety tools, which our industrial assets must implement. We believe consistent application of SafeWork through strong, visible leadership drives a culture of safe operating discipline and will get our people home safe.
In 2021, we relaunched SafeWork following Group-wide reviews of its implementation and adoption. SafeWork 2.0 builds on the learnings from safety-related incidents and establishes greater accountability for safety in our workplaces.
We require an effective safety management system at each industrial asset to meet both legislative and SafeWork requirements, provide a structured risk-based approach for the identification and management of safety risks, systematically assess our performance and identify and share lessons learnt from incidents.
SafeWork is built on a set of minimum expectations and mandatory protocols, standards, behaviours and safety tools. We believe well-led, consistent application of SafeWork will drive operating discipline and can prevent fatal accidents at all our industrial assets.
Core to our approach is our risk management system, through which we systematically identify, assess and manage safety hazards and credible risk scenarios associated with our industrial assets. We let our people know that we expect every individual, all employees and contractors, to take responsibility for their own safety, and for the safety of their colleagues and the communities in which they work.
We apply our minimum performance expectations at all our industrial assets, while recognising that each region, commodity, industrial asset and workplace is unique, and our industrial assets implement our management approach via local health and safety practices and management systems.
Under Glencore’s Remuneration Policy, the vesting of the CEO’s incentive awards remains subject to ESG underpins to reinforce our stewardship and commitment to sustainable shareholder value creation.
KCC 360 Safety
Case study: Safety in the DRC
Case study: Safety in the DRC
Driving continuous improvement
Our industrial assets report high-potential risk incidents (HPRIs) as part of our strategy to reduce repeat incidents and, as such, we do not target a reduction in this metric. We have integrated the concept of zero-energy HPRIs into our monthly HSEC&HR performance reporting. A zero-energy event refers to the identification of unsafe actions or conditions prior to an actual incident taking place. For example, a worker failing to wear appropriate fall protection equipment while working at height, but who did not fall, would be recorded as a zero-energy HPRI. We are strengthening our understanding of zero-energy HPRIs to drive their reporting, which in turn should support an improvement in safety culture and drive improved safety performance. We share learnings from HPRIs across our industrial assets.
Contractor safety management
Our Contractors and Suppliers HSEC&HR Management Standard sets out the mandatory requirements for our industrial assets’ management of contractors and suppliers with respect to our health, safety, environment, social performance and human rights (HSEC&HR) risks and compliance against our HSEC&HR requirements. Our commitment to improve our safety performance was a key driver in the development and implementation of the standard. The standard requires all our industrial commodity departments to conduct a risk assessment to identify, assess and define controls for the management of HSEC&HR risks, opportunities and impacts arising from the use of contractors and suppliers and their work. The implementation of the standard is initially focused on safety, with various initiatives to improve leaders’ capability to manage contractors, help prevent safety-related incidents and share learnings from HPRI investigations.
Principles we follow
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UN Global CompactVisit the website
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Principle 1Read more
businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights
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ICMMVisit the website
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UN SD GoalsVisit the website
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