Delivering health and safety expertise

In 2010, we described our new bespoke health and safety training course, developed and delivered on our behalf by experts from DuPont, an established safety leader. DuPont has now run four training modules, one in each quarter of 2011 and each on a different safety topic: root cause analysis, risk assessment, behavioural auditing and safety leadership. We piloted each module with senior Kazakhmys employees to ensure the training was effective before running it in full. The training took place at four sites: Balkhash, the East Region, Karaganda and Zhezkazgan. Where possible, the workshops were delivered at operational locations so exercises could take place in a real-life setting. In total, 440 of our site managers and safety officers attended.

The DuPont team then trained a smaller group of 20 internal trainers to create the in-house expertise to deliver the course to the next level of line management. To date, 1,839 line managers have been trained internally and training will continue through 2012. Training is just one important element of our efforts to instil a safety culture.

In the first quarter of 2012, DuPont began to review and upgrade our corporate safety standards in line with international best practices. They will help us to implement the revised standards to ensure they translate into a real reduction of risk to employees. Later in 2012, DuPont representatives will provide more in-depth practical training to employees in areas including safety audit and documentation. This will help employees to put into practice what they learned during DuPont’s classroom training.