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SUSTAINABILITY

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 .   

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    Why SafeWork and how has it evolved, watch the animation
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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 risks. We maintain a proactive safety culture, led by strong and visible leadership, and implement implement practices aimed at continuously improving workplace physical and psychological health and safety.

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. 

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.

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    Case study: Safety in the DRC

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Case study: Safety in the DRC

Principles we follow

  • UN Global Compact
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  • Principle 1

    businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights

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  • Principle 2

    make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses

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