{"id":2106,"date":"2007-11-14T13:33:29","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T12:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2007\/11\/14\/sa-mine-safety-under-fire\/"},"modified":"2007-11-19T10:54:27","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T09:54:27","slug":"sa-mine-safety-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2007\/11\/14\/sa-mine-safety-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"SA mine safety under fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miningmx.com\/grnbk2007\/676219.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"071115_sa-mine.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/071115_sa-mine.jpg\" title=\"071115_sa-mine.jpg\" alt=\"071115_sa-mine.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>AN ACCIDENT AT Harmony Gold\u2019s Elandsrand mine \u2014 trapping 3 200 workers 2km underground for up to 30 hours early in October \u2014 was the tipping point for the South African government with regard to its mining industry\u2019s safety performance. The Harmony incident \u2014 in which nobody died or was hurt \u2014 followed hard on the heels of four deaths in a rock fall 3.3km below the surface at AngloGold Ashanti\u2019s Mponeng mine. (&#8230;) South Africa\u2019s largest mining group \u2014 Anglo American \u2014 has renewed its drive towards safer operations, driven by newly appointed CEO Cynthia Carroll, who has cracked down hard on the health and safety environment in South Africa. She\u2019s taken a hard line on safety, a move Mines Minister Sonjica has commended. The first high profile casualty was Ralph Havenstein, CEO at Anglo Platinum, after 12 workers died at its Rustenburg operations this year. Some 29 people died at Anglo\u2019s operations in first half 2007, the bulk at 75% held subsidiary Anglo Platinum. Havenstein shocked the market when he said he was retiring to make way for somebody else to take forward the company\u2019s renewed safety strategy. It\u2019s widely felt that Carroll asked him to leave. \u201cThe Group&#8217;s safety performance for the first half has been completely unacceptable. I\u2019ve taken immediate action to address the safety situation, particularly at Anglo Platinum, and initiated a major new drive to improve safety,\u201d Carroll says. \u201cOutstanding safety is indicative of outstanding business performance. It\u2019s the indicator. If you get safety right you can be sure everything else is going right.\u201d At a safety summit of 130 Anglo managers in South Africa in June, Carroll demanded every business unit submit specific implementation plans by October to outline safety strategies that will be closely monitored. Image source: theage.com.au. &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miningmx.com\/grnbk2007\/676219.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\">News selected by Covalence <span class=\"linkbluetransmedium\">| Country: <\/span>South Africa<span class=\"linkbluetransmedium\">| Company: <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=1\">Harmony Gold<\/a>, <span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=5\"><span name=\"intelliTxt\" id=\"intelliTXT\"><\/span><\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=1\">Anglo American<\/a>, AngloGold Ashanti <span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\"> <\/span><span class=\"linkbluetransmedium\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\">|  <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\" lang=\"EN-US\">Source: <\/span>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miningmx.com\/grnbk2007\/676219.htm\" target=\"_blank\">miningmx<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessgreen.com\/2007\/06\/business_call_f.html\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN ACCIDENT AT Harmony Gold\u2019s Elandsrand mine \u2014 trapping 3 200 workers 2km underground for up to 30 hours early in October \u2014 was the tipping point for the South African government with regard to its mining industry\u2019s safety performance. The Harmony incident \u2014 in which nobody died or was hurt \u2014 followed hard on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,122],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anglo-american","tag-harmony-gold","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}