Promoting employee health, wellbeing and productivity
Overview
The health of our workers is vitally
important to the ongoing success of
our company. In many senses, health
poses as much of a legal, operational
and reputational risk as our safety
performance – albeit over a longer
time scale. As a result, we go beyond
an attitude of ‘compliance’ based on
traditional measures of occupational
health and communicable disease,
and instead take a more holistic view
of worker wellbeing.
As part of this approach, we believe
that our responsibility towards our
employees extends beyond their
formal working hours, to also cover the
rest of their 24 hour day. Pioneered
in South Africa, we spent C2010
embedding our innovative and
sector-leading 24 Hours in the
Life of a Gold Fields Employee
programme across the company
(p154). This includes initiatives around
occupational health and safety,
healthcare, living conditions, nutrition,
education and sport and recreation.
Through this approach, we aim to
ensure that we have a fit and motivated
workforce that will carry us towards
our production Goal of 5 million quality
gold ounces by 2015.
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