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Safety and Health

The health and safety of Coronado’s people is reinforced everyday through our culture, which is developed via our behaviours, training and procedures.

The safety of everyone who enters any of our work locations is Coronado’s absolute priority. We manage safety through continuous improvement efforts and implementation of the practices and procedures that address safety first, in full compliance with the legal and regulatory framework of both the U.S. and Australia. We empower our people to consistently strive to have a safe mindset, and act by applying, managing, and monitoring effective controls to prevent adverse outcomes with all activities and operations.

The introduction of a Global Safety Strategy in 2024 reinforces our absolute priority to put safety first and to continuously improve through sharing learnings across all of our operations, regardless of location.

In Australia and the U.S. we actively promote the use of our comprehensive Employee Assistance Programs (EAP). This service offers free counselling to employees and their families and aims to promote our awareness of the importance of maintaining positive mental health.

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Safety initiatives: Australia

We are committed to the health and safety of our employees and contractors. With the introduction of the Coronado Global Strategy in 2024, our safety initiatives are globally aligned and form the foundation of our operational approach.

7 Pillars of Safety

Relevant and compliant procedures that align with the Queensland Coal Mining Safety and Health Act and Regulations.

Effective layers of risk management practices that provide robust hazard identification, assessment quality coaching, and control effectiveness monitoring.

Fully engaged leaders holding authentic safety conversations in the workplace, driving our strong safety culture.

Leveraging technology and continuous improvement to address key health and safety risks, including our Vehicle Interaction Control Effectiveness (VICE) program, whole body vibration management (WBV), and heat stress protocols.

Participation and commitment through regular and transparent communication and embedding our safety strategy and plan across all levels.

Developing our safety leadership and capability through mandatory and tailored discretionary training programs.

Improving reporting and investigation practices to drive continuous learning and prevent recurrence of incidents.

Each mine within our Curragh complex has a separate Safety Health Management System (SHMS) that forms part of the relevant Site Senior Executive’s responsibilities. Managers at each mine must implement the SHMS and, collectively with their teams, uphold the requirements of the SHMS every day. All employees, contractors and visitors must adhere to the SHMS relevant to the mine they are attending or working at.

Each SHMS is reviewed and audited periodically to ensure it is effective. The auditing process is done formally as well as via our people having authentic conversations about safety via our behavioural based safety leadership program, FELT Leadership.

Safety initiatives: United States

All employees, contractors and visitors must adhere to the site-specific workplace health and safety management rules, policies and protocol when attending or working at any of our U.S. operations.

Our recent initiatives in the U.S. include:

  • Each person is trained in personal risk assessments relating to their daily assigned tasks and must conduct a Class 1 risk assessment before work begins.
  • Class 2 risk assessments must occur when a miner’s everyday task is altered, or when the work is to be performed that is not a part of their normal daily assigned tasks.
  • Each mine has developed a list of hazards that, if not controlled, could have a high likelihood of resulting in a serious or fatal injury.
  • Critical controls already in place were identified, reviewed, improved and enhanced and new controls determined to be required were created.
  • Each operation implemented a process to regularly review and check on the adequacy of critical controls to ensure their effectiveness. Monthly meetings are held with mine management to determine if there are any changes that need to be made to the controls verified during the month.
  • Safety, training and education remain a key focus within U.S operations.
  • Our Red Hat Program was developed to ensure that employees new to our business who have little or no previous mining experience can be thoroughly brought up to speed with Coronado’s operational standards. This program involved six months of on-the-job training and weekly debriefs with mine management.
  • New legislation around the sampling of Silica has necessitated a review of our testing processes at both of our U.S. operations.
  • We have begun a campaign to further understand our exposure to crystalline respirable Silica. Since 2016, the regulator removed our option to sample and took the responsibility upon themselves to conduct and report on Silica results. Recently, the regulator has proposed rules requiring us to restart our sampling program. We are well underway with this review, with sampling commencing and foreman receiving re-certification in how to comply with the revised sampling protocol.