Health and safety

Safety is a core value at Glencore. Our health and safety ambition is zero work-related fatalities, injuries and occupational illnesses.

Our people have a right to go home safe and healthy to their families and communities at the end of every day.

Our approach to safety

At Glencore Coal we have developed a Health, Safety, Environment and Community (HSEC) Framework which provides structure and consistency across the organisation. The framework is supported by a suite of HSEC Standards which establish direction and set expectations.

SafeCoal

SafeCoal is a safety initiative established for Glencore coal operations in New South Wales and Queensland more than 10 years ago.

The program provides a framework for management systems and behaviours that contribute to achieving our health and safety goals.    

The key components of SafeCoal are:

• establishing clear behavioural expectations for everyone in the form of SafeCoal Rules
• addressing the most common causes of fatalities and serious injuries by providing minimum requirements for managing these hazards through our suite of Fatal Hazard Protocols
• encouraging our people to 'make the safe choice' by empowering them
• establishing transparent and consistent consequences for breaches of SafeCoal related systems using our Safety Compliance Protocol.

The SafeCoal framework has now been adopted – as SafeWork – across all Glencore assets around the world.

Employee health and wellbeing

We promote the health, fitness and general wellbeing of our people, and provide targeted education, counselling, prevention and treatment programs.

Heads Up! is a program designed to improve the understanding of psychosocial risk across all layers of our organisation, providing training and resources which equip our people to establish and maintain a safe workplace.