We take our responsibility to protect our people extremely seriously. Safety is the top priority not only for us, but also for our clients. Our strong safety record reflects our uncompromising commitment to keeping employees, contractors and others where we work safe.
2024 Highlights
Our Safety Approach
We aim to establish and maintain an incident-free workplace that ensures the health and safety of everybody in our workplace and the communities where we operate.
Health, Safety & Wellbeing Policy
We rigorously adhere to our HSSE management system, designed to minimise risks to the lowest possible levels. It is compliant with ISO 45001: Occupational Health & Safety Management System, ISO 14001: Environmental Management System and ISO 9001: Quality Management System standards.
Safety leadership is embedded at every level of the organisation. Our Board retains ultimate oversight of health and safety, with technical guidance and support provided by our HSSE Committee. Our employees participate in regular training, and we continuously monitor leading and lagging indicators to monitor performance.
Oversight from the Board and HSSE Committee ensures accountability, while performance monitoring and insights from audits, investigations and site‑level feedback drive ongoing improvement.
Our Health, Safety and Quality Policy applies to all Group activities and covers Directors, employees, third-party workers, subcontractors, business partners, and visitors.
Fostering a ‘Speak Up Culture’ is a vital aspect of our safety management practices. All employees have the right to refuse a task without fear of reprisals if they are untrained, feel unsafe, or believe the task could put themselves or others at risk of harm.
Safety Initiatives
To protect our employees, we recognise that safety cannot simply be theoretical, it must be embedded within our culture from senior leadership to every person on site.
This starts with our Safety Risk Leadership Walk initiative, where leaders and site management regularly walk around operations with crews to identify hazards, ensure controls are effective, and engage with employees to reenforce our ‘Speak Up’ culture.
Critical controls are essential to keeping our employees safe. We proactively verify their status on site through our Critical Control Verification (CCV) process, reinforced through Plan Task Observations, regular employee reviews that ensure familiarity.
Our daily approach is guided by our Golden Safety Rules, ten overarching rules that must be adhered to by all employees.
Importantly we support our safety culture with recognition of positive employee behaviour through monthly Safety Awards while embedding a safety focus into regular scheduled project meetings to spotlight key topics, address issues, raise concerns, and build shared understanding.
Safety in Practice and Training
Employee training plays a key role in ensuring our people have the knowledge to conduct their work safely and to address risks in our business.
From pre-start meetings at the start of every shift, to project-specific training management plans that incorporate both mandatory and role specific training, alongside client safety inductions and work area familiarisation, we provide comprehensive training for our team.
Our Supervisors participate in additional training that aims to help them cultivate a safer working environment and uphold our safety culture.
Driller Certification Program
A key focus area for us providing the opportunity for our drillers to attain recognised drilling qualifications.
During 2024, a number of our team achieved certifications:
Frontline Leaders
- Twelve employees successfully completed RII31820 Certificate III in Drilling Operations
- One employee successfully completed RII40920 Certificate IV in Drilling Operations
Emerging Leaders
- Three employees successfully completed RII50620 Diploma in Drilling Operations
- Two employees successfully completed RII60415 Advanced Diploma of Drilling Management
Our Health Approach
We provide employees with access to medical support through International SOS and local providers, alongside mandatory medical exams, annual check‑ups and comprehensive health training covering both occupational and non‑occupational risks.
Our occupational and non-occupational targeted training and awareness campaigns aim to reduce health‑related incidents and support the overall wellbeing of our workforce across diverse operating regions.
They include:
- Malaria awareness
- HIV & AIDs awareness
- Heat stress and sunburn
- Fatigue management
- Emergency response planning
- Personal hygiene and hand washing
- Soft tissue injury prevention
- Typhoid awareness
Our Illness Reduction Strategic Plan (IRSP) aims to identify vector borne diseases, outline strategies to mitigate risks and establish controls to lower the health related incidence rates in high-risk projects.
Emergency Management
We have established emergency plans and procedures that identify potential emergency situations which may impact the environment and/or the health and safety of people in the workplace and how we will respond to them.
Each site has a specific emergency response plan which is developed with support from International SOS Protocols and relates to site-specific emergencies we may face from a spill to a serious injury or fatality.