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SAFETY
IGO had no fatalities or serious disabling
injuries during FY16, however there was
one serious injury wherein a contractor
broke his leg whilst unhitching a truck
trailer; an injury that required many
months of recuperation. In addition, there
were 33 injuries that required medical
treatment, time off work or resulted in
people being assigned to alternate duties
(18 in FY15).
IGO’s lost-time injury frequency rate
(LTIFR) for FY16 was 3.90 injuries per
million hours worked by IGO employees
and contractors. These results are
higher than the most recently published
averages for the Western Australian
gold mining and nickel mining sectors
which have a reported LTIFR of 2.5 and
3.3 respectively. Tropicana’s LTIFR, which is
not included in IGO’s statistics, was 1.0.
IGO acknowledges that the signi cant
injuries were painful and caused distress
to the injured people, their workmates
and their families. IGO is not satis ed
with its overall safety performance. IGO’s
clear objective is to improve, with the goal
of causing no harm to our employees.
For further information on IGO’s safety
performance and improvement programs,
please refer to the 2016 Sustainability
Report, which can be found on the IGO
website at
www.igo.com.au.
For further information on IGO’s safety performance
and improvement programs, please refer to the
2016 Sustainability Report