Our People
We are committed to zero harm. The health and safety of our employees takes priority above all. To ensure this, we have put in place rigorous processes to ensure that every employee and contractor employee goes home safely to their families. Rössing has a yearly Health, Safety and Environmental (“HSE”) improvement plan to eliminate fatalities and reduce occupational injuries and illnesses. We understand that our operational environment may be hazardous. For this reason, the identification and management of material risks are crucial in our business approach. We have also employed an internal assurance programme to monitor and actively manage our critical risks and controls.
Utilising a formalised, integrative HSE management system is essential in enabling Rössing Uranium to optimise, co-ordinate and manage our operations, personnel, plant, and equipment. This management system also ensures our interactions with the environment and communities in a manner that demonstrates the company’s consistent application of best practices.
The structure of the HSE management system generally follows the layout of common international standards such as the International Organisation for Standardisation (“ISO”) 14001 (Environment) and the Occupational Health and Safety Advisory series (“OHSAS”) of British Standard (“BS”) 18001. The HSE management system is designed to assist in the achievement of our Health Safety Environment and Communities (HSEC) goals, which also include our legal obligations.
An auditing programme periodically evaluates the effectiveness of our HSE management system. All potential impacts are listed on a risk register with related mitigating and operational controls.
However, our approach to the health and safety of our employees goes beyond compliance and we seek to achieve year-on-year improvement.
