Health and safety
Governance
Who is accountable for safety at each level, and how we monitor and escalate safety performance.
Where accountability sits
Safety accountability follows line management. We do not delegate it to a safety advisory role, which advises, monitors and audits but does not hold the accountability for the work being done safely. The person who controls the resources, the schedule and the method is the person accountable for the exposure that method creates.
Monitoring
Responsibility for collecting, analysing and reporting safety performance information is assigned within the Group and named in the governing policy. We monitor completion of safety training across business units, the emergency drills conducted at each site and the findings drawn from them, the containment, investigation and closure of safety events, and the recording of near misses, unsafe conditions and corrective actions.
We conduct site inspections and internal audits on a defined cycle to assess compliance and verify that corrective actions have been completed. We build health and safety risk assessment into operational planning, procurement and project design.
Escalation
We escalate immediately to executive management, and report to the board, any incident that results in or had the potential to result in a fatality or a permanent injury. We notify the competent Peruvian and Swiss authorities where the applicable law requires it, within the period that law prescribes. We escalate systemic or unresolved issues to executive management and, where appropriate, to the competent authorities.
Review
We review our health and safety arrangements on the cycle stated in the governing policy, and again after a significant incident or a change in regulation. Where a review changes a requirement, we record the change and the reason for it and communicate both to the sites affected.
Where an activity generates them, safety performance statistics are published. We conduct and record the monitoring described above so that the information is prepared on a consistent basis.
Raising a concern
Employees, suppliers, communities and any other party may raise a concern through the confidential reporting channels. We provide for anonymous reporting, and we do not tolerate retaliation against anyone who raises a concern in good faith.
