ICMM to focus on achieving ‘zero harm’ a reality

The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) published a report on 28/7/2022 that analyses the safety performance of its members in 2021. 
Describing the report as ‘uncomfortable reading’, Rohitesh (Ro) Dhawan, CEO of ICMM says: “Despite the industry’s focus on operational, cultural and leadership transformation that has reduced fatalities in recent years, we have still not achieved our goal of zero harm. In 2021, 43 people from ICMM company members lost their lives at work. Any year with even a single fatality is unacceptable. This means, as an industry, we must and will continue to work to improve our safety performance so that every single worker returns home safely.”
“ICMM began collating and publishing company members’ safety data in 2012 with the aim of encouraging information and knowledge-sharing, and catalyzing learning across the industry. And as an industry, we can draw strength from how far we have come, but we will remain deeply uncomfortable until zero harm is actually achieved. ICMM’s new three-year strategy is focused on ambitious collective action. In health and safety, we will work together to explore the root causes of why harm continues to occur and hunt for the next step change to make zero harm a reality”, he added.
Also, Dhawan assures that ICMM’S past reveals that in the face of trying circumstances, the Council can summon its collective will and find ways to work together to create a safer future. “I am confident in the unwavering commitment of every ICMM company and association member to do the same in this instance and work together to achieve a true step-change in our collective safety performance,” he claims. 

Aruna Gaitonde, Editor in Chief of the Asian Bureau, Rough&Polished