Health and occupational hygiene

Our approach

We aim to eliminate occupational illnesses through providing a workplace that is free from significant occupational health and hygiene hazards and proactively work with employees and contractors to contribute towards healthier lifestyles. This enables us to improve productivity, reduce absenteeism and enhance recruitment and retention.

Our performance this year

Occupational illness cases

In 2007, 35 new occupational illnesses were recorded at Xstrata’s managed operations from a workforce of over 56,000 employees and contractors. The number of new occupational illnesses per million hours worked more than halved in 2007 to the lowest level recorded since Xstrata’s inception in 2002.

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