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Mining Weekly reports that a number of large mining companies have joined hands to launch the International Mining Safety (IMS) Hub – an online hub of industry-endorsed visual safety tools that allow for greater learning opportunities and improved safety for all levels of employees.
"This is a collaboration by industry, for the industry. For too long have I witnessed the industry working in silos, individually investing substantial effort and resources in essentially just duplicating work already developed by their peers. The IMS Hub will change that," said co-founder Stephen Eichstadt. The founding partners of the IMS Hub are Anglo American, AngloGold Ashanti (AGA), Harmony Gold, Impala Platinum, Sibanye-Stillwater, Teck Resources and the Minerals Council SA. The hub is powered by global visual health and safety communication specialist agency Jincom. Each founding partner contributes two suites of materials around key fatal or catastrophic risks at their operations. Once transformed into simplified visual tools, these tools are shared on the hub for the use and adaptation of all other partners. The spirit of the IMS Hub is shared value aimed at making the mining industry safer, and partners only need to contribute information in order to participate. The founding partners are encouraging other mining operations to join in and contribute valuable knowledge on the fatal hazard themes they would specialise in based on their operation. AGA’s George Coetzee pointed out: “Some companies have progressed further in their safety journeys and bring maturity and learning from those journeys. This allows those companies, still in the early stages of the journey, to tap into the lessons learnt and wealth of knowledge gained.”
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