The health and safety of our employees is our first priority and our primary objective is to operate the business free of injury and harm.Our safety strategy is aligned to leading practice in global safety standards and systems and is fully owned and executed by the executive and operational leadership teams.

We believe that a safe environment is the outcome of a well-executed tactical, operational process and support this principle with the following focus areas:

Complying with applicable laws, regulations and the voluntary commitments we have adopted

Fostering a strong safety and health culture by providing effective and accountable leadership

Continually improving occupational safety and health performance and management systems

Striving to establish and maintain workplaces that are free from injury and harm

Seeking to ensure that we have competent and capable people in roles, fit-for-purpose equipment, appropriate systems and procedures

Proactively identifying, assessing and mitigating employee and contractor safety and health risks and opportunities

Mitigating the community safety and health risks associated with our operations

Adopting a stakeholder-inclusive philosophy by applying a consultative, participative and constructive approach in interaction with stakeholders

Making our Health, Safety and Security Policy, related objectives and targets available to employees, contractors and other relevant stakeholders

Using good-quality data, research and employee feedback in order to make informed, data-driven decisions and continually improve performance

Our risk management approach must be flexible in responding to the challenges that confront us while we continue to pursue value-creating opportunities. This is key to the long-term success of our business.The Board and CEO are committed to ensuring that risk is managed effectively to ensure we meet our strategic business objectives. Our Group Risk Management Framework aims to provide assurance that all risks across the Group have been properly assessed, mitigated, and monitored, within appropriate risk tolerance levels.Effective risk management requires that we identify, assess, evaluate and respond to the risks faced by the business. In order to do this effectively we reviewed our Risk Management Framework to align ApexMiner Industries's risk management practices with the new Operating Model. This resulted in a revised Framework, where we replaced the standalone Risk Policy through with risk management principles embedded in various Group policies and set a minimum standard of risk management as part of the work we do.