Health & Safety Why is health and safety important? Mining, by its nature, has potential hazards that must be carefully managed. On a daily basis, mine workers may be engaged in drilling and blasting rock, operating heavy machinery, handling explosives and chemicals, working with high voltage electricity, working at heights, working with high temperature materials as well as other complex and potentially dangerous tasks. Pan American Silver is deeply committed to protecting the health, safety and well-being of our employees, contractors, suppliers, and community partners where we operate. Operating safely is a moral imperative. We believe that operating safe mines and building a culture of safety are directly related to our operational success and the ability to create long-term value for COIs and society.
Material Topic
Health and safety
Definition
Protecting the health, safety and well-being of our employees, contractors
Feedback From COIs
Our workers want safe working conditions and additional safety training
How We’re Responding
We prioritize the safety of our workforce every day.
POTENTIAL RISKS AND IMPACTS Industrial accidents, equipment failure, or ground falls resulting in worker injuries, delayed production, or loss of social acceptance
RELATED SDGS
We trained our workforce with 1,065,088 hours of safety training. We are continuing the pilot of our behaviour-based safety program in Peru.
2019 Goals Operations and Safety
2019 Results
2019 Performance
2020 Goals
Achieve zero fatalities
Despite meaningful efforts to enhance safety programs throughout the organization, we regrettably incurred two fatalities at our mines.
Achieve zero fatalities
Achieve a lost time injury frequency (LTIF) of 1.5 or less
LTIF rate 1.04
Maintain LTIF of 1.1 or better
Achieve a lost time injury severity (LTIS) of 600 or less
LTIS rate 481
Maintain LTIS of 565 or better
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