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1.7.3 Safety 1

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Our highest priority is the safety of our workforce and the communities in which we operate. Governance at BHP
In FY2020, there were no fatalities at our operated assets, Contractor safety
Remuneration Report
and we have continued the disciplined implementation of our In FY2020, we implemented additional safety requirements for
safety standards. We have continued to improve and refine our engaging, contracting and transacting with our contractors.
Field Leadership Program, incident investigations, and controls These contractor safety requirements have been rolled out across
to manage fatal risks. BHP’s operated assets. In addition, the integrated Contractor
We continue to strengthen our safety leadership and culture Management Program was established to:
by educating our people about chronic unease, which is being • take a human-centric, inclusive approach to establish Directors’ Report
mindful of the possibility of what could go wrong and creating partnerships with external service providers, driving safer work
a culture where it is safe to speak up and report hazards and through integrated processes and technologies
incidents. One of the objectives of our global Field Leadership • develop long-term mutually beneficial relationships with our
Program is to strengthen the reporting culture. We monitor external partners
reporting culture across all our operations and coach and support • support an inclusive, respectful and caring workforce culture,
our leaders to improve the quality of our field leadership activities with improved safety, health and wellbeing outcomes
with our employees and contractors.
To support the BHP target of zero work-related fatalities, we have Event management
been working towards global risk standardisation of critical controls During FY2019, we introduced our improved and more intuitive
and performance standards for three safety risks: person(s) falling event management system. The system records health, safety,
from heights; lifting and cranage; and confined space incidents. environmental and community events, and is designed to capture, Financial Statements
analyse and track those events in real time. The system allows us
Our safety performance to capture incident investigations and share information across
Total recordable injury frequency (per million hours worked) the organisation so that we can learn from those incidents.
The system drives data quality, through consistent inputs and
Year ended 30 June 2020 2019 2018 outputs, producing meaningful and effective reports. In FY2020,
Total recordable injury frequency (1) 4.2 4.7 4.4 we enhanced our event management system to allow events to
be recorded in more detail, to enable deeper analysis and
(1) FY2017 to FY2018 data includes Continuing operations and Discontinued continuous improvement.
operations (Onshore US assets). FY2019 data includes Discontinued operations
(Onshore US assets) to 28 February 2019 and Continuing operations.
For more information on safety visit bhp.com/sustainability.
Our total recordable injury frequency (TRIF) performance Additional information
decreased by 11 per cent from FY2019.
High potential injury events (1)
Year ended 30 June 2020 2019 2018
High potential injury events (2) 42 50 54
(1) High potential injury basis of calculation revised in FY2020 from event count
to injury count as part of a safety reporting methodology improvement.
(2) FY2017 to FY2018 data includes Continuing operations and Discontinued
operations (Onshore US assets). FY2019 data includes Discontinued operations
(Onshore US assets) to 28 February 2019 and Continuing operations.
High potential injuries decreased by 16 per cent from FY2019 and Shareholder information
the frequency rate decreased by 23 per cent. We see the highest
number of events that have fatality potential in vehicle, mobile
equipment, dropped and falling object events. High potential injury
trends remain a primary focus to assess progress against our most
important safety objective: to eliminate fatalities.

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