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Supervisory Board of ALROSA holds a meeting in Mirny
The Supervisory Board heard the report of the ALROSA management on the circumstances of the accident occurred at the Mir mine on August 4, 2017, as well as on the support measures that the company provides to the affected miners, including the implementation of the employment program for the Mir workers. At present, the commission of Rostechnadzor (Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service of Russia) continues to investigate the causes of the accident and the results of this investigation will be summed up within a few weeks.
The management of ALROSA also provided information on measures to enhance industrial safety, which the company will implement. In particular, the members of the Supervisory Board reviewed the proposals for the selection of a foreign auditor to independently examine the accident at the Mir Mine and the efficiency of the design decisions chosen during its construction. Following the consideration, it was decided to hire SRK Consulting to perform this job. The auditor’s work will last until the end of this year.
The Supervisory Board also decided to optimize the structure of ALROSA's Executive Committee in order to ensure representation of the company’s managers supervising all its underlying activities and to exclude duplication of functions. Until now, the quantitative limit of the Executive Committee was 13 members (with 3 seats remaining vacant). Ultimately, the quantitative limit has been reduced to 9 members.
Simulatenously, there were changes in the very composition of the Executive Committee. Ivan Demyanov and Igor Kulichik, who left the company, as well Alexander Makhrachev, the head of the Udachninsky Mining Division, Ravil Sanatulov, the head of the Aikhal Mining Division, and Alexander Chaadayev, the head of the Yakutniproalmaz Institute, who continue their work in these positions, were withdrawn from the Executive Committee, as they are functionally reporting to Igor Sobolev, the company’s First Vice President and Operational Director, who is sitting on the Executive Committee. Sergey Barsukov, Vice-President for Interaction with Government Authorities and for International Activities, Aleksey Filippovskiy, Vice-President for Economy and Finance, and Evgeny Agureev, Director of the United Selling Organization of ALROSA, were added to the Executive Committee.