Our Approach
We strive to maintain a culture of sustainable development and teamwork.
The health and safety of our employees, respect for our environment and active involvement with the local communities are fundamental to our long-term success – thus we strive to maintain a culture of sustainable development and teamwork.
The policy of Fresnillo is to guarantee health and safety in the workplace, protect the environment and maintain good relations with the communities in which we operate, basing our processes on regulatory compliance within a culture of sustainable development, teamwork and continuous improvement.
We are committed to ensuring that not only do we comply with all environmental regulation and best practice standards, but also to develop methods of exceeding these requirements in order to fully deliver on our corporate responsibility.
We are committed to ensuring compliance with applicable regulations and continually examine ways of implementing best practices through new programmes. As a result, our sustainability performance has shown continuous improvement over a number of key indicators, and our efforts have been recognized and awarded by third parties.
Health, safety, environment and community relations Committee
Fresnillo's sustainability practices and programmes are overseen by the Health, Safety, Environment and Community Relations ("HSECR") Committee, which comprises three Directors including the Chief Executive.
The responsibilities of the Committee are to:
- Formulate and recommend to the Board Fresnillo's policy for HSECR issues as they affect Fresnillo's operations
- Ensure compliance with national and international standards
- Review management's investigation of incidents or accidents that occur in order to assess whether policy improvements are required
- Evaluate the results of the Group's independent performance audits and any resulting action plans
At the operating level, sustainability efforts are managed through the Health, Safety, Environment and Community Relations System (Sistema de Salud, Seguridad, Medio Ambiente y Relaciones con la Comunidad, "SSSMARC"). SSSMARC certifies and integrates HSECR activities into daily work processes, using policies that are established by management and executed by the operating areas. SSSMARC utilises international principles and standards, primarily the Sustainable Development Framework of the International Council on Minerals and Metals (ICMM), the guidelines of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
