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25.02.10
New guidance on Health Impact Assessment released
A new publication on Good Practice Guidance on Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is now available to download.
Assessment and management of community health, safety and wellbeing is increasingly becoming an important part of risk management and social responsibility within the mining and metals sector.
The HIA is intended as a practical tool to assist companies in protecting the health and wellbeing of their workforce and local communities.
It presents an overview of how mining and metals operations can affect the health and wellbeing of local communities, describes typical health impact assessment processes and outlines a methodology for undertaking a rapid assessment so that in-house practitioners are involved from the start.
ICMM recognizes the imperative to integrate health impact assessment with environmental and social impact assessments and this publication aims to provide the reader with management tools to achieve this.
ICMM’s interaction on this issue is guided by two of our Sustainable Development Principles:
• To seek continual improvement of our health and safety performance
• To contribute to the social, economic and institutional development of the communities within which we operate.
A sister publication Good Practice Guidance on Occupational Risk Assessment (2009) provides practitioners with the information and tools they need to assess the health and wellbeing of employees and contractors.
For further information, or to provide feedback, please contact Andrew Mackenzie.
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Principle 05:
Seek continual improvement of our health and safety performance
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