Health, safety & wellbeing

At Thiess, we work to keep everyone safe everyday by providing a workplace that’s both physically and psychologically safe.

#Health and safety

Across Thiess, safety underpins everything we do. No matter our job or position, each of us has a role to play in ensuring we keep everyone safe everyday.

We have established and proven systems in place to support our people. Our Health & Safety Management System (HSMS) is an integrated set of tools and resources that define how we manage physical health, safety and security at all levels.

We achieve physical safety through these actions:

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Lead with our Thiess One HSE Culture and Behaviour framework that sets the behaviours we expect from all our people to embed our safety-first culture.

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Ensure an effective risk management approach through our Thiess Safety Essentials, non-negotiable critical controls, and core procedures for seven risk activities.

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Provide engaging leadership to ensure our people have the skills required to develop and embed a strong HSE culture.

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Use lead indicators to drive positive performance outcomes, change and improvement.

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Use lag indicators for compliance reporting and to measure effectiveness.

#Wellbeing

At Thiess, our vision everyone safe everyday isn’t just about physical safety, it’s about the whole person. It includes the mental health and wellbeing of all of our people. We want our people to feel safe, respected, valued and able to speak up for themselves and their teammates.

In line with this, Thiess has responded decisively to the Human Rights Commission’s Respect@Work Report, which details the prevalence of bullying, discrimination and sexual harassment across the mining and resources sector.

We’re building psychologically safe and respectful workplaces through these actions:

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In 2022, Thiess established their Healthy, Safe & Respectful Workplace Policy. This reaffirms Thiess’ commitment to supporting the health, safety and psychological wellbeing of every person, and addresses harassment, bullying and discrimination with the same priority and resources as other health and safety risks.

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The policy is upheld by the active Respectful Workplace Taskforce, which leverages the Thiess One HSE Culture framework to embed respectful workplace values into the way we work together.

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Implement our Mental Health Roadmap, which guides our people through the different stages of mental health support provision – from benchmarking to awareness and education through to transformation.