Health – Our Approach
The health and wellbeing of people is central to the success of our business and, accordingly, understanding the potential for health risks and establishing suitable mitigation measures are integral to the success of our journey towards Zero Harm.
Our Health Road Map (below) illustrates the key steps to effectively implement our Health Strategy.
Health risks continue to be an area where we are attempting to reduce potential short- and long-term impacts. These health risks are diverse in the areas in which we operate and are not only related to work processes. Significant community-based health risks exist in our business, and we continue to contribute to the management of these issues on both a local and global basis.
Some of the potential health risks present in the organisation include:
- inherent occupational health risks associated with the nature of our operations, such as noise, dust, hazardous materials and gases, and vibration
- communicable diseases present in some of the countries in which we operate, including HIV/AIDs and mosquito-borne diseases
- travel-related risks
- ergonomic exposures relating to work requirements
- general suitability for job criteria and fitness for work.
Fitness for work issues are an important area of employee health, and we have undertaken a great deal of work to advance this area within the Company. One aspect is to ensure that health matters do not impact on the safety of the workplace, exemplified by the development of drug and alcohol and fatigue management programs at our operations.
To ensure we adopt a holistic approach to employee health, we have combined our Fit for Work program with a series of Fit for Life initiatives that include injury management, employee counselling and health promotion.
For details on our approach to the management of these aspects, refer to Employee Health and Community Health.
