Occupation, Health and Safety

STAMIGOLD Company Limited trusts that nothing is more important than the health and safety of her Employees, Visitors and surrounding communities. The Company has thus thrived to conduct the business in compliance with the relevant Tanzanian laws and regulations in place for mining activities.

Our Occupation, Health and Safety Policy

*         To ensure that Occupation, Health and Safety management is a key function at all levels in the company.

*         To identify and assess work place hazards and risks, develop and implement programs to mitigate them.

*         To train all employees and visitors on work place hazards and risks and how to identify all hazards, risks and report them to management for rectification.

*         To constantly review all the site working procedures to make them user friendly.

*         All incidents/accidents and near misses will be reported, investigated, documented, and thereafter to put and implement proper remedial actions to avoid their recurrence.

*         Establish, Train, equip and maintain high level of emergency preparedness and response team at our mine site at all times during the course of our business.

*         Hold individuals/groups accountable for their actions/omissions, breaches of Health and Safety policy and procedures.

 

 Safety Culture

A Safety Culture at Stamigold Mine starts with good leadership; At Stamigold Biharamulo Mine, Management drives culture, which in turn drives behaviours. Our Management Support Safety Culture, they provide resources, dedicated safety personnel, safety training and incident investigations platforms at all times.

As more time and commitment are devoted, 0ur company has establish a safety management system, which set safety objectives and introduce site-level mechanisms (e.g. hazard analysis, behaviours observation and feedback, incentive schemes, action item tracking systems, Visible Felt Leadership and safety committees). A progress toward a strong Safety Culture and accountability systems, which encourage the recognition that safety is everyone’s responsibility and not just the responsibility of the safety department.

Over time the values and beliefs of our Organizational will shift focus, from eliminating physical hazards to eliminating work situations prone to human error by building systems that proactively improve workplace conditions to the point where safety becomes a core value of the Organization and an integral part of operations. An additional ingredient is necessary for this to happen, the Safety Leader.

Managers at all levels act as Safety Leaders. Our employees naturally demonstrate some of the personality traits we usually associate with a leader. However, this does not mean that everyone else cannot be a Safety Leader.

What makes a person recognizable as a leader has more to do with safety behaviours, than personality. Leadership that values both production and people has been shown to achieve the best results in getting people to perform.

In addition to this, Stamigold Biharamulo Mine strong culture of safety leaders have been made possible by following leadership styles: Thus, Transactional versus transformational, yet to put it simply transactional leaders are managers; they set objectives, monitor performance, and make corrections as needed. While Transformational leaders have a vision, and inspire people to go above and beyond their mere self-interest to achieve it safety target. However, Safety Leaders need transactional skills, without any transformational skills they cannot generate employee engagement.

 

Safety Leadership in operations

Many major incident investigations in recent years have referred to management’s lack of focus on and understanding of asset integrity and operating practices as a root cause of the catastrophic incidents, environmental and economic losses that occurs. Operations carried out in the Mining Industry present many potential risks to people and to the environment, some of which are inherent to our operations. Therefore, it is essential to note that, Stamigold Management is committed to excellence in safety, operational performance and asset integrity as essential tools in preventing incidents. The best way for our leaders to deliver that commitment is through the utilization of a capable, competent and motivated workforce that consistently executes operational activities built upon sound engineering and technical practices designed to enable safe, secure and environmentally responsible outcomes. With strong leadership, Stamigold Biharamulo Mine has successfully maintained high standards in asset integrity and operational control which has resulted toa great achievement of 12 Million Lost Time Free Man-hour as highest benchmark safety performance, thus Free LTI Man-hours without Lost Time to the Mining Industry in Tanzania.