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Home<\/a><\/span> \u00bb Sustainability Report<\/a><\/span> \u00bb Material sustainability issues<\/a><\/span> \u00bb Our people \u2013 employees and communities<\/a><\/span> \u00bb Ensuring the health, safety and security of employees, contractors and communities<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n

Ensuring the health, safety and security of employees, contractors and communities<\/h1>\n\n\n

Safeguarding the well-being of our employees, contractors and wider mine communities is our priority. We aim to achieve zero harm across our operations and to ensure we bring no harm to the environment, communities and countries in which we work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Our commitment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Maintaining the safety, health and security of employees and contractors, and contributing to that of communities is an important aspect of achieving our SLO. AngloGold Ashanti acknowledges that the well-being of our people, both internal and external, is central to operating a responsible and sustainable mining company that creates value for its stakeholders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Our approach<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Aligned with global best practice, our operating standards seek to ensure we proactively identify and mitigate potential risk, while our risk management and critical control monitoring helps us measure and manage our impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our drive towards our ultimate objective of creating workplaces that are free of injury and harm has seen us implement and continuously adapt our Company safety and health strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our focus is on progressing the organisation\u2019s culture to one underpinned by individual and collective accountability, engendering a sense of care and trust, and ensuring all are engaged in a process of learning about the nature of current and future risk. With the clear priority given to safety and health, we seek to ensure that no activity will be undertaken unless it can be done safely and without impacting health and well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the interconnectedness of health, safety and security, AngloGold Ashanti\u2019s approach now takes the broad occupational, environmental and social determinants of health and views them through the lens of the newly introduced Health, Safety and Security Revitalisation initiative. This initiative is accompanied by a Health, Safety and Security Strategy, and an updated set of strategic focus areas has been identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AngloGold Ashanti\u2019s commitment to safety and health is achieved through:<\/p>\n\n\n\n