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 all about 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 tool box 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 are often used to merely fix problems and prevent a recurrence of adverse incidents. Business Excellence Through Safety in Newmont will be 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.