WORK PROGRAMS
Health and safety
Through the ICMM Sustainable Development Framework, ICMM member companies have committed to Principle 5 ‘seek continual improvement of our health & safety performance’.
Assessing and managing the risks and hazards to human safety and health is the cornerstone of the ICMM Health & Safety work program. Committing to the open and transparent sharing of information and collective actions on health and safety issues will assist member companies in their drive to ‘zero harm’.
Co-sponsored Website
MIRMGate, developed by Australia’s University of Queensland Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre, enables users to find carefully-chosen good practice risk management information, identify hazards through the entire life cycle of operations and get decision-making help for both long and short term problems.
PROJECTS
FEATURED CASE STUDIES
Xstrata reduces injury risks associated with underground coal mining equipment in Australia
Xstrata,
Member companies support leading research for HIV/AIDS vaccine
Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, BHP Billiton, Gold Fields, Rio Tinto, Lonmin, Sumitomo Metal Mining,
Community engagement - policy requirements
BHP Billiton,
MORE CASE STUDIES
- Identifying and assessing hazards and risks
- Making changes to existing plans with respect to communities
- Responding to a distant train derailment
- Lessons from a tailings dam failure
- Security measures and public information for safe transport of chemicals: three mines in Peru
- Improving community interaction after tailings pipeline failure
- Community engagement on potential for seismic failure of tailings pond
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