26
GEO ENERGY RESOURCES LIMITED
| Annual Report 2014
CORPORATE SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY
Occupational Health and Safety
Geo Energy is committed to continuous
improvements in health and safety standards
of our operations. We seek to minimise the
risk of accidents, injuries and illnesses to our
employees, contractors and local communities
by improving health and safety standards as well
as closely monitoring our operations.
We adopt a comprehensive safety management
system for the safe operation of our mines, which
includes safety management plans, rules, codes
of practice, manuals and procedures with which
our employees are required to comply.
To ensure that our workforce understands and
familiarises itself well with our health and safety
rules, daily rehearsals incorporating many of
our Group’s fundamental safety procedures are
carried out as often as practicably possible to
inculcate and remind employees of our safety
culture and procedures. Training on basic safety
skills and procedures are conducted for our
workforce including those employed from the
local communities.
Further to that, in FY2014, our HSE department
developed a Safety Reward Program involving
all employees in our weekly and monthly safety
talk programmes. The Safety Reward Program
has broadened the insight of all employees
about health, safety, work and environmental
concerns as well as increased the motivation of
all employees to work safely and follow the HSE
rules.
On a regular basis, we conduct internal safety
checks to ensure compliance by our staff. Safety
officers are stationed on-site at each of our
mining sites to oversee the safety aspect of our
coal production operations. They are tasked to
monitor the work procedures of the employees
with the aim of identifying shortfalls in our
health and safety procedures. Where shortfalls
arise, counter-measures are undertaken or new
policies are introduced to remove the resultant
risk.
Our emphasis on safety first and priority placed
on worker health have resulted in a relatively low
level of accidents at our mines.All our employees
have a mandate to target zero injuries and
