TOGETHER TO ZERO HARM – FIVE MILLION FATALITY-FREE SHIFTS

We prioritise the health, safety and wellbeing of our employees, partners and host communities in every decision we make. This commitment to safety is expressed in the way we put into practice the Group’s value of Care, as well as through our continuous efforts to improve the Group’s safety framework.

Making this commitment to safety visible is Murray & Roberts Cementation: it recently achieved a milestone of five million fatalityfree shifts.

“This exciting milestone, which we reached in early January 2021, is the result of years of commitment by every member of the company to the multiple safety initiatives and programmes we’ve run,” says Mike Wells, managing director of Murray & Roberts Cementation. “Management has played its part too: we’ve placed an unrelenting
focus on implementing the Major Accident Prevention programme, as well as on performing stringent risk assessments and verifying critical controls in the field.”

The maturing safety culture that now exists among employees, along with their internalisation of our safety principles, has entrenched the belief that Zero Harm is achievable, with each employee returning home safely every day.

“We have seen a marked attitudinal change over the years, where success has bred more success and all our employees take ownership of their safe work practices, both personally and collectively,” says Mike.

“This builds a resilient safety culture, which has included a crucial commitment to doing work right the first time.

“Today, our mining clients regard the commitment to fatality-free operations as a given – not only for themselves but also for their service providers. We are proud to be able to demonstrate our success as part of the broader progress in this field by the whole mining sector.”