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Safe and inclusive workplace

Safe and inclusive workplace

29Metals is committed to:

  • providing healthy and safe workplaces for employees, contractors and business partners, minimising incidents and accidents, and eliminating serious injuries and illnesses; and
  • promoting a diverse workplace that better reflects the community in which we conduct our business, by:
    - fostering a workplace which encourages and supports inclusivity and diversity, and does not tolerate bias or inappropriate behaviour; and
    - promoting a workplace environment that provides the opportunity for all workplace participants to perform and succeed.
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Safety is non-negotiable and is always front of mind in everything we do.

Safe and inclusive workplace: our key priorities for 2023.

2023 Priority
Continued focus on eliminating serious injuries and incidents and reducing incidence of minor injuries
Group wide roll-out of mental health first aid training
Improve female participation as a proportion of total 29Metals’ workforce
Continue to identify and address inclusion and diversity barriers
Improve number of women in leadership roles
Improve cultural competency
Further information about our safe and inclusive workplace priorities can be found in our Sustainability & ESG Report.

29Metal’s Commitments

Providing a healthy and safe workplace

for employees, contractors and business partners, minimising incidents and accidents, and eliminating serious injuries and illnesses

Promoting a diverse workplace

that better reflects the community in which we conduct our business by fostering a workplace which encourages and supports inclusivity and diversity

Safety is non-negotiable and is always front of mind in everything we do.

Safe and inclusive workplace: our key priorities for 2023

Gender diversity on the Board of Directors
  • Maintain no less than 30% representation of each gender on the Board
Improve female participation in 29Metals’ workforce
  • Year-on-year increase in the percentage of female employees as a proportion of total employees
Increase transparency of gender diversity performance
  • Commence Workplace Gender Equality Agency reporting, including completion of gender pay-gap analysis
Increase engagement with the 29Metals workforce regarding inclusion and diversity matters
  • Establish a Diversity Working Group with representation from across the workforce, to provide advice and recommendations regarding workplace inclusion and diversity improvement opportunities and strategies
Identify barriers to inclusion and diversity in 29Metals workplaces
  • Conduct a whole of workforce survey to identify issues and opportunities for inclusion and diversity improvement
  • Develop a gap analysis and action plan based on the results
Improve cultural awareness
  • Refresh and roll out cultural awareness training, in consultation with local First Nations stakeholders
  • Training to be successfully completed by all employees and contractors at superintendent level or above across 29Metals

Inclusion and diversity objectives and targets

29Metals set the following inclusion and diversity objectives and targets for the 12 months to 31 March 2023:

Gender diversity on the Board of Directors
  • Maintain no less than 30% representation of each gender on the Board
Improve female participation in 29Metals’ workforce
  • Year-on-year increase in the percentage of female employees as a proportion of total employees
Increase transparency of gender diversity performance
  • Commence Workplace Gender Equality Agency reporting, including completion of gender pay-gap analysis
Increase engagement with the 29Metals workforce regarding inclusion and diversity matters
  • Establish a Diversity Working Group with representation from across the workforce, to provide advice and recommendations regarding workplace inclusion and diversity improvement opportunities and strategies
Identify barriers to inclusion and diversity in 29Metals workplaces
  • Conduct a whole of workforce survey to identify issues and opportunities for inclusion and diversity improvement
  • Develop a gap analysis and action plan based on the results
Improve cultural awareness
  • Refresh and roll out cultural awareness training, in consultation with local First Nations stakeholders
  • Training to be successfully completed by all employees and contractors at superintendent level or above across 29Metals