Results for the Group
Safety
Sadly, South Deep recorded a fatality during October 2018 which was a machine related incident. This is the first fatality South Deep has recorded since February 2017 and was also the only fatality reported for the Group in 2018. The Group's fatality injury frequency rate improved from 0.05 in 2017 to 0.02 in 2018. The total recordable injury frequency rate (TRIFR)1 for the Group improved by 24 per cent from 2.42 in 2017 to 1.83 in 2018, the best achieved by the Group.
The strategy of the Group will focus on eliminating fatalities and serious injuries. In addition, an increased focus is being put on leading indicators to take safety to the next level, including increased visible leadership, reporting and close out of hazards and full roll out of critical control management through design, engineering and procedural control, as well as behaviour change.
The CEO, executives and senior managers from all regions met in October 2018 to develop a group-wide safety strategy. While the details are being fine-tuned, it was agreed that the strategy's pillars should be: safety leadership, safe behaviour and systems and processes. The forum agreed that implementing a courageous safety leadership programme would refocus and strengthen our safety efforts and complement existing programmes. Stuart Matthews, our Group Head of Australia, will be responsible for leading this global effort to finalise and guide the strategy's group-wide rollout.
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Total Recordable Injury Frequency rate (TRIFR). (TRIFR) = (Fatalities + Lost Time Injuries2 + Restricted Work Injuries3 + Medically Treated Injuries4) x 1,000,000/ number of man-hours worked. |
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A Lost Time Injury (LTI) is a work-related injury resulting in the employee or contractor being unable to attend work for a period of one or more days after the day of the injury. The employee or contractor is unable to perform any functions. |
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A Restricted Work Injury (RWI) is a work-related injury sustained by an employee or contractor which results in the employee or contractor being unable to perform one or more of their routine functions for a full working day, from the day after the injury occurred. The employee or contractor can still perform some of his duties. |
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A Medically Treated Injury (MTI) is a work-related injury sustained by an employee or contractor which does not incapacitate that employee and who, after having received medical treatment, is deemed fit to immediately resume his/her normal duties on the next calendar day, immediately following the treatment/re-treatment. |
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