A 5 Year Safety Partnership Bearing Fruits:
Mr. Hannes van Staden receives award
In the modern mining industry, one will find that most of the industry’s reputable operators have implemented a driven safety strategy. We regularly hear the slogan “one life lost is one life to many” and one will find many occupational safety drives around, all with varying success. A clear success story is Mopani Copper Mines PLC, who has implemented the SAFEMINING plan in 2014. This vigorously driven strategy has not only showed great success across Mopani’s several mines, but it is proving to be a beacon of excellence within the industry.
At Mopani Copper Mine’s Kitwe operations there is a clear success story in Group R Mining & Exploration Zambia Ltd, an operating subsidiary of Group R Holdings Ltd of Mauritius. At Group R one will see that they did not only embrace the SAFEMINING drive of Mopani Copper Mines PLC but has made it part of their daily conduct and business DNA. The success of this is evident by Group R not having a single work fatality since inception in 2010, as well as boasting with an enviable track record of working 5 Years without a single lost time injury, this was achieved in late December 2018 at its operations at Mopani’s SOB Shaft in Kitwe, Zambia.
“We at Mopani are extremely proud of the achievements of Group R and their unwavering dedication to mine safety. We would like to see this dedication and passion from all our contractors in all our operations” say Mr. Chris Vermeulen of Mopani Copper Mines PLC
The management team at Group R’s approach to mine safety is firm to say the least. Daily safety meetings are not seen as a tedious task but forms an integral part of their planning, policy making and operational systems. If safety is not front of mind in everything you do and plan it will soon fall to the wayside, is the Group R belief.
“Our client, Mopani, introduced and demanded that we work according to their international best standards for safety. As a contractor we had the choice to merely tick the boxes and show compliance or to embrace the spirit of the standards. We chose to embrace it as part of our operations” says Hein van Staden Chief Operating Officer of Group R Holdings Ltd
When asked about the 5 Years LTI Free achievement the company has a humble approach stating that such and achievement is a measure of past performance, the operational reality is that providing a safe working space is not based on the past, you are only as save as your next shift. Every shift demands 110% dedication.
“At Group R we believe management are the drivers of safety in our operations, that said we know that the workers are the true custodians and we are privileged to have a team dedicated to daily safety at work” say Van Staden
Both companies believe that as Africa operators they have a responsibility to continuously invest in the incubation of a better, more inclusive and safer working environment within the mining sector. This dedication is clearly visible in accolades like that achieved by Group R.
As proud Zambian companies they both believe in showing the continent and the world that Zambia has operators that are world class and that the mining sector is becoming a benchmark for mining operations across the continent.
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