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Health & Safety
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AngloGold Ashanti as an Employer: Our Commitment to Occupational Health and Workplace Safety
- The company is committed to complying with all relevant occupational health and safety laws, regulations and standards. In the absence of thereof standards reflecting best practice will be adopted.
- We are committed to providing a working environment that is conducive to safety and health.
- The company places the management of occupational safety and health as a prime responsibility for line management, from the executive through to the first line supervisory level.
- We strive for employee involvement and for consultation with employees or their representatives to gain commitment in the implementation of these principles.
- The company is committed to providing all necessary resources to enable compliance with these principles.
- The company will not tolerate or condone breaches of standards and procedures.
- We will implement safety and health management systems based on internationally recognized standards and we will assess the effectiveness of these systems through periodic audit.
- We will conduct the necessary risk assessments to anticipate, minimize and control occupational hazards.
- We will promote initiatives to continuously reduce the safety and health risks associated with our business activities.
- We will set safety and health objectives based on a comprehensive strategic plan and will measure performance against our plan.
- We will monitor the effects of the company's operational activities on the safety and health of our employees and others, and we will conduct regular performance reviews.
- We will provide all necessary personal protective equipment.
- We will establish and maintain a system of medical surveillance for all employees.
- We will communicate openly on safety and health issues with employees and other stakeholders.
- We will ensure that employees at all levels receive appropriate training and are competent to carry out their duties and responsibilities.
- We will require our contractors to comply with these principles and we will seek to influence joint partners to apply them as well.
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