Working Safe

In 2020, we started what is expected to be a multi-year effort to refresh our approach to safety for all employees and contractors.

We are now implementing our new approach with a more consistent focus across the organisation on the way people, culture, equipment, work systems and processes all interact. The majority of our fatalities over the last five years were down to the interaction between these elements.

We encourage people to spend more time in teams reflecting on and improving their understanding of the gap between how we anticipate work will be safely carried out and what happens in reality. We continue to work to prevent incidents through maintaining safety barriers and training, but acknowledge that people can make mistakes and processes can fail. Being open to confidently sharing ideas and concerns with colleagues and curious to consider possible variation in the way work gets done means our systems and barriers are made more robust and we save more lives.

Teams that embrace a learner mindset can more easily identify better ways to manage safety risks. We believe in learning from and with others also on a journey to improve safety.