David Vaughan and Alan Suttner inspect emergency response first aid equipment at Drayton At a Group level, we are committed to the highest standards of safety and responsibility across all of our businesses and geographies.
Ensuring employees and contractors remain safe at work is our number one priority, and we are committed to implementing safety systems and operating in a way that promotes safe behaviours, moving toward an overall objective of zero harm.
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Case studies
Safety innovation award for Dawson mine
The Dawson mine maintenance team received the Anglo American 2009 CESA Safety Best Practice Award for designing new maintenance platforms for CAT797 trucks.
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A1 risk management training rolled out at Capcoal
Capcoal Grasstree underground mine became the first of our mines in Australia to deliver A1 Safety Risk Management training to its workforce in November 2009, with more than 200 employees and contractors having now completed the intensive safety course. The A1 programme concentrates on the steps each individual can take in terms of risk assessment, with participants identifying hazards associated with their work and looking to introduce additional controls to make their work safer.
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Smart Cap combats fatigue-related incidents
Group Chief Executive Cynthia Carroll, along with the Minister for Natural Resources, Mines and Energy, the Honourable Stephen Robertson MP, revealed exciting new technology to be introduced at our mines to combat fatigue-related heavy vehicle driving incidents.
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