Good
companies have good safety performance. Better companies focus on safety performance as a core value
and strive for superior performance. A great company is one that achieves and
sustains superior performance, and yet continues to improve through the value
of "Business Excellence Through Safety."
Business Excellence Through Safety is a
different way of considering safety. Safety is not an icon, mounted on a
pedestal, to be revered. Safety is not a tool that is taken out of the toolbox
as required or when instructed, for occasional use and then put away. Safety
requires a considerable investment of time and resources and is no different
from any other form of investment, where an average rate of return is expected.
When Business Excellence is pursued through safety, consequential benefits of
efficiency and cost savings are realized that otherwise would not be
recognized.
Safety processes often are used to
merely fix problems and prevent a recurrence of adverse incidents. Business
Excellence Through Safety in Newmont is a process whereby the typical processes
of hazard identification and removal/management or incident investigations will
be supplemented with additional processes and culture. Such processes and
culture allow people to look beyond the usual and obvious, and identify the
consequential benefits that generally are inherent (but not crystallized) in
corrective initiatives.
Success in this aspect of safety
management provides real rates of return on investments, beyond the usual. This
is one of the ways great safety performance can make Newmont a great company.
Safety
is about efficiencies, rates of return on investment, ensuring
sustainability, contributing to the protection of our social license - the
science of safety to achieve continuous improvement in productivity and
exceptional commercial outcomes. Most importantly, safety is about personal
issues. It is about the passion for protecting and caring for our people
and providing development opportunities through an efficient and safe
operation. Safety is about a passionate belief that ALL INJURIES ARE
PREVENTABLE and personalizing the tragic consequences of injury and
death in the workplace.
