Boliden's Safety Culture

Challenge the practice is addressing: Boliden’s safety culture builds around mutual trust and zero tolerance for risky behaviour among all employees. The company emphasizes preventive safety measures to promote risk awareness and to ensure safe performance in all situations.

Concrete practice to achieve the expected goal: Boliden emphasizes that all employees, contractors, and management levels have an important role in building a strong, holistic safety culture. The cornerstones of Boliden's safety culture are continuous improvements to the processes and safety practices, and annual safety meetings to exchange safety-related information between different units of the company. Management levels and all employees are regularly provided training to keep their knowledge on the most urgent safety matters up to date.

Expected impact/goal of the practice: The aim of the practice is to ensure a safe and healthy work environment for everyone in Boliden’s operations.

Who is the target user group of the practice/intervention or implementing the practice/intervention? The target group of the practice is company staff across the entire extractive industry – this includes the entire workforce including management.