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This program defines the company’s philosophy and requirements that ensure all Barrick locations are aligned with respect for people and business objective of safe production, to optimize employee health and well-being making a healthy workforce more productive and has less turnover, so that occupational health and wellness activities directly support the achievement of business objectives. The company has a clearly articulated vision of “Every person going home safe and healthy every day” that reflects their ultimate goal of zero incidents
Key aspects of Barrick’s health approach include:
Each working site is ensured to have properly trained occupational health or medical staff and resources sufficient to address the site’s needs and comply with all company policies, local laws, rules and regulations which is reviewed annually to ensure resources meet changing needs and staff training is current.
At a minimum, the medical needs assessment and programmust include:
An Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is also put in place and addresses the health and wellness needs of workers and their families, and that reflects local customs and culture.
Some Barrick sites have their own medical clinics to provide health service to their employees and community.
The needs assessment must be documented and reviewed annually as part of the Health Risk Assessment
Barrick worldwide (North America, Australia and Papua New Guinea)
The program focuses on the following areas:
One hundred percent of at-risk employees and their families (with regard to HIV/AIDS and/or malaria) are currently eligible to receive preventative initiatives or treatment. As well, 100 percent of affected employees and their families are receiving treatment, highly subsidized or free of charge.
Through Barrick's Respiratory Protection Standard across the company in 2012 a periodic assurance reviews against the Standard are conducted at a minimum of every two years at each site.
In 2014, through Barrick's Health and Productivity Management Program, the company completed physical demands analysis for most jobs at their mine sites. Beginning in 2015, new hires began using specific evaluation criteria to determine an employee’s ability to perform required tasks before he or she starts a job. Sites will also evaluate heavy workload jobs to see where the most demanding tasks can be eliminated.
In the same year, Barrick completed gap assessments and implementation of the Fatigue Risk Management Standard. Late in the year, the company conducted a trial of the latest wearable technology at one site in South America in order to validate the accuracy of this technology in identifying sleep quality and quantity at sea level and high altitude.
By 2016, all employees at mine sites or in at-risk positions will be tested upon receiving an offer of employment to ensure that they are physically capable of completing the required tasks in a safe manner.
Barrick have also developed occupational health performance indicators and, in 2014, they reviewed how to monitor and track these indicators. The company will develop baseline performance in 2015 and then set performance targets in 2016.
Barrick jointly published key quantitative results from the collaborative “Acceptability of Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in Papua New Guinea” study - published in a peer-reviewed journal article in BMC Public Health, an open access journal.