OUR STRATEGY & APPROACH

We are committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace for all employees, contractors, and any visitors to our sites. As such, our sites are responsible for implementing safety management systems and procedures.

We are currently advancing two key programs: Critical Risk Management and Doing Safety Differently. We track and carefully analyze safety incidents classified as high potential for serious injury to help us learn and improve the conditions of our workplaces. We do this by focusing on corrective and preventative actions (CAPA) that adopt leading technologies and improve our controls, safety systems, training, and processes.

All our operations meet or exceed local health and safety regulations and adhere to the Mining Association of Canada’s Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) Safety and Health Protocol.

Plans, Programs & Initiatives

• The “Doing Safety Differently” program fosters an approach where workers are actively involved in problem-solving, communication and continuing learning.
• Expansion of our “Critical Risk Management” program focuses on preventing serious incidents and fatalities through training, culture change, site-specific action plans, field verifications, and comprehensive investigations of serious incidents.
• Investigation of High Potential Incidents (HPIs), including those that do not result in injuries or losses, and incentivize the implementation of high hierarchy controls and preventative actions.

2025 Goals

• Achieve zero fatalities.
• Maintain a frequency of lost time injuries with a high fatality potential (LF-HPIF) of 0.30 or better.
• Minimize the possibility of incident reoccurrence by applying Corrective and Preventative Actions (CAPA), totalling a score of at least 40 points.⁽³⁾
• Train at least 5% of the total number of employees at four of our operations in Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) principles.

⁽¹⁾ Lost Time High-Potential Injuries Frequency (LT-HPIF).
⁽²⁾ Non-Fatal Lost Time Injuries Severity (NF-LTIS).
⁽³⁾ The Corrective and Preventative Actions (CAPA) developed by each site are evaluated and scored based on a hierarchy of controls. The scores associated with the hierarchy of controls are: Engineering = 4pts, Substitution = 8 pts, Elimination = 10pts.