Resolution Copper Mining | A member of the Rio Tinto Group

2008 Sustainable Development Report
Responsible Progress Toward Future Promise

Note:
All financial amounts expressed
throughout this report are in US dollars.

 

Safety First

Injury risk control systems and standards

Resolution Copper has developed Health, Safety, and Environmental Management systems and standards to manage safety and help us achieve zero workplace injuries. The management systems explain in detail the process or procedures to follow to comply with the stated management system.

The injury risk standards define minimum performance expectations to help prevent injury or fatality associated with the following activities. All Resolution Copper employees and contractors are trained in these management systems and standards. (Level 1 contractors are those who report directly to an RCM supervisor)

Health

Management systems

  • General safety systems
  • Risk management
  • Workplace monitoring
  • Medical & first aid treatment
  • Occupational medical surveillance
  • Records

Standards

  • Particulate & gas vapor exposures
  • Hearing conservation
  • Noise vibration control
  • Hazardous standards
  • Radiation
  • Thermal stress
  • Fitness for work
  • Legionnaires disease
  • Travel & remote site health
  • Occupational exposure limits

Safety

Management systems

  • General safety systems
  • Management of change
  • Contractor management

Standards

  • Treatment recording-reporting incidents/injury
  • Isolation lock-out tag-out
  • Electrical safety
  • Vehicles mobile equipment
  • Working at heights
  • Confined space entry requirements
  • Crane & lifting
  • Aviation
  • Ground control underground
  • Emergency procedures
  • Fire precautions underground
  • Hoisting underground

Environmental

Standards

  • Environmental management system
  • Air quality control
  • Acid rock drainage
  • Greenhouse gas emissions
  • Hazardous materials & contamination control
  • Noise & vibration control
  • Non-mineral waste management
  • Mineral waste management
  • Land-use stewardship
  • Water use & quality control