Occupational Health and Safety

Health and safety of workers are the main priority of the Company. We strive for the highest standards in the field of safety management and have adopted the “Vision Zero” concept of zero injury at the production.

`         The Company strives to implement the requirements of the “Strategy for the H&S Development of Samruk-Kazyna JSC for 2024-2028. To achieve the set target values of this Strategy, the Company is working in the following areas:

  • People and increasing the level of safety culture
  • Ensuring safety during operation of technological equipment
  • Emergency prevention
  • Information and explanatory work.

The Company monitors the activities of contractors and subcontractors in terms of their compliance with H&S standards on the territory of the Customer (Company), including work sites. This work is regulated by the Standards of management of contractors, subsidiaries and dependent organizations.

In order to develop industrial relations, maintain favorable working conditions and zero tolerance for all forms of violence (physical, economic, psycho-emotional) in the workplace, develop internal communications and effective interaction with contractors, Standards for the Development of Industrial Relations have been introduced. There are also Standards for conducting behavioral safety audits at the Company’s production facilities and subsidiaries.

Measures on prevention of accidents and incidents in subsidiaries are carried out by the Company in accordance with the approved “Action Plan for Industrial Safety for 2024”. In 2023-2024, no production-related accidents or major industrial incidents were recorded in the Company, subsidiaries and affiliated organizations.

In H1 2024, three thematic meetings and three cross-audits of industrial safety in subsidiaries, training sessions on elimination of possible accidents at ShalkiyaZinc LTD JSC and Tau-Ken Altyn LLP were organized. A children’s drawing contest “Safety through the eyes of a child” was held.

Two employees of the Company were trained in 2024 and received the international certificate “IOSH Managing Safety”.