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Mining Weekly reports that Sibanye-Stillwater on Thursday reported that its South African gold operations achieved seven-million shifts with no fatalities – amounting to about 365 days of production without a fatality – for the six months ended 30 June.
Its South African platinum group metals (PGM) operations experienced two fatal incidents during the six months. This was a stark improvement from the 21 fatalities – group wide – reported for the first half of 2018. This commendable improvement in safety, CEO Neal Froneman said, was achieved in spite of disruptions associated with the extended strike at its gold operations, and the heightened risks of resuming production from workplaces that were dormant for more than five months. Trade union Solidarity also welcomed Sibanye’s achievement of safe production in its gold segment, with general secretary Gideon du Plessis adding that such achievements “can only be accomplished through all shouldering their responsibility for health, safety and teamwork”. Solidarity said it was confident Sibanye’s safety leadership had improved the safety culture at Sibanye’s SA operations and that this had made all the difference in achieving this milestone. The union, however, warned the miner against complacency and urged it to continue to be safety conscious so that every employee was able to return home safely to their families every day. “The real test of your safety culture and commitment now comes with maintaining this achievement and with the further reduction of accidents and injuries,” Du Plessis said.
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