Health and Safety
At Newmont, the health, safety, wellbeing and security of our people and communities are central to how we work. Following the tragic loss of five colleagues in 2023/2024, Newmont undertook a comprehensive review of our practices, which led to the launch of Always Safe – the unified approach to health and safety. Safety is a core value at Newmont and reflects the deepest level of care we can show ourselves and one another. Built on the foundations of care, courage, accountability and intention, Always Safe focuses on building enduring systems, capabilities and culture that prevent harm and create lasting impact.
Our Approach
Our approach to health and safety is guided by four pillars. Together, these pillars shape how we design, deliver and sustain our work across every project, operation and partnership:
- Integrated Systems
Building and maintaining clear, consistent frameworks, standards and processes that manage risk, strengthen governance and enable safe outcomes everywhere we operate. - Robust Capabilities
Ensuring the right skills, technologies and resources are in place – so our people and partners can act with confidence, apply controls and continuously improve performance. - Empowered People
Creating an environment where every voice matters, people feel equipped and encouraged to speak up, and leaders actively enable ownership of safety at every level. - Living Governance
Maintaining discipline and accountability through verification, oversight and transparency, while adapting with agility as risks and contexts evolve.
Safety
Our ongoing focus is on preventing fatalities through the continued implementation of our Fatality Risk Management Program. Following its successful launch in 2016, the program was strengthened in 2025 through a refresh that ensured appropriate and comprehensive risk coverage, enhanced critical controls and introducing system verification processes to further improve risk control.
In 2026, our efforts will focus on capability uplift of leaders via the Leading for Safety program, as well as strengthening how we work with business partners through the rollout of an enhanced end-to-end contractor management process.
Health
By embedding health and hygiene within Always Safe, we ensure health remains a core and enduring priority. Our approach is guided by three key standards: Environmental Health Risks, Workplace Exposures, and Health, Wellbeing and Fit for Work. These standards are embedded across all operations and reinforced through a disciplined audit process that ensures consistent application and continuous improvement.
Assurance
Our operational risk management approach ensures that material risks are clearly identified, applicable standards are in place to mitigate those risks and that assurance activities verify adherence to these standards. Two levels of assurance support this approach. Level of Defense 1 focuses on managing risk where work is performed, ensuring hazards are identified and critical controls are applied. Level of Defense 2 provides independent oversight to verify that these controls are effective and consistently implemented.
Mine Emergency Response Teams
Emergency response across Newmont is supported through an emergency response management platform that connects enterprise-, business unit- and site-level teams. This coordinated system ensures rapid and structured response to incidents.
Our mine sites are equipped with an on-site Mine Emergency Response Team (MERT) made up of highly skilled professional miners – for example, equipment operators, mechanics, electricians, blasting technicians, geologists, engineers – who bring important work experience to their roles on the team. Our MERT members are highly trained professionals, including Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT), Emergency Medical Responders (EMR), and other specialist medical and emergency response roles.