sustainability
We’re accountable not only to our shareholders, but also to employees, communities and society at large.
Our success in developing a sustainable business depends in part on how successful we are at making our operations safe and rewarding places to work, and on how well we manage the economic, environmental and social impacts we have on the communities we operate in. Our work toward sustainability focuses on six areas:
- Approach
- Policies
- Health and safety performance
- Environmental performance
- Community affairs performance
- Industry involvement
Measuring our performanceEach year we set safety, environmental and community affairs targets for the corporation as a whole.
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2007 Results |
2008 Targets |
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Identify behaviour and risk-based safety system improvements, evaluate them and implement the best solutions.
Reduce total injury frequency and disabling injury frequency by 10 percent.
Explore opportunities to expand and improve our occupational health systems. |
In our biweekly Safety Task Force meetings we continued to focus on methods to reinforce risk-based behaviours in our employees and contractors. Our High Consequence Protocol process is one specific outcome of this work.
Total injury frequency and disabling injury frequency declined by 11 percent and 17 percent, respectively.
We developed summaries of common Inmet workplace exposures and evaluated ongoing workplace health monitoring. |
Complete High Consequence Protocols and develop implementation plans.
Develop implementation plans for the SECA Standards at our operations.
Deliver 10 percent improvement in SECA metrics. |
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Reduce the number of reportable environmental incidents by 5 percent and eliminate all permit exceedances related to total suspended solids. |
Reportable environmental incidents decreased 33 percent to 10. There was one total suspended solids exceedance reported at Troilus.
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Develop energy and water conservation plans at each operation. |
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Expand community dialogue and document community priorities and concerns.
Investigate opportunities to establish community-directed foundations at active operations and Las Cruces. |
Progress was made in expanding consultation with our communities, particularly at Las Cruces, Çayeli and Cerattepe. Dedicated community affairs staff was appointed at two sites.
We did not achieve this objective. We found that further work to better understand community priorities was necessary and that is underway.
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Increase community affairs resources at our operations.
Conduct a socioeconomic assessment at each operation.
Join the United Nations Global Compact, an international multistakeholder initiative for businesses committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption. The Global Compact website is www.globalcompact.org. |
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Our operations also establish their own targets, which are detailed in our sustainablity report.
We measure our performance using indicators from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM), an initiative of the Mining Association of Canada, along with several indicators we've developed.
Download a copy of our 2007 sustainability report to review our performance and other information in more detail.
 Full report (PDF English - 1.4 MB)
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