Occupational health and safety review
The priority we place on the health and wellbeing of our employees and contractors is reflected in our Zero Harm vision. Our ongoing challenges and successes in eliminating fatalities, injuries and occupational health risks are discussed in this section.
In order to realise its vision, Kumba is focused on two fundamental drivers: firstly, to improve its status in terms of its safety maturity, and secondly, to stop fatal incidents. This section discusses Kumba’s safety strategy, its 2009 performance, and its focus for 2010, specifically in relation to these two drivers.
To address the two fundamental drivers – improving its safety maturity and stopping fatal incidents – Kumba utilises a safety management system. The system is founded on the belief that there are three aspects to safety which can be changed in order to improve performance: the first is the behavioural aspect whereby what people do can be changed; the second is infrastructure and means that better infrastructure can assist in improving safety performance; the third is the systems used to manage safety – these can be enhanced so as to achieve better results.
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