Sustainability
Our sustainability vision
Our sustainability vision focuses on four key areas; everybody going home safe and healthy every day, caring for the environment, developing and maintaining strong relationships with our communities and governments, and acting ethically and transparently.
Sustainable mining means engaging and respecting local communities, assessing and managing safety social and environmental impacts, and making ethical and transparent strategic business decisions. This approach delivers safe and profitable operations. ”
Newcrest Managing Director and CEO - Sandeep Biswas
Our integrated approach to sustainability is reflected across the company starting with
the charter of our Board’s Safety & Sustainability Committee and our Sustainability Policy.
Within our business we have a range of sustainability-related policies addressing climate change, energy, biodiversity, water stewardship, human rights, Indigenous relations, and community relations.
Stakeholder Engagement activities
Shareholders
Annual reports, quarterly production reports, half-yearly financial reporting, website and email, investor briefings, one-on-one discussions, investor days, conference calls, market announcements, annual general meeting and industry conferences.
Employees and contractors
Employee briefings, intranet, email, newsletters, social events, notice boards, departmental site and toolbox meetings, performance reviews, site general manager town hall meetings, Speak Out Service, site-localised media stories, direct engagement between people leaders and their teams, Organisational Health Survey participation.
Communities
Community Relations team visits, resident and community meetings, site visits, communication and feedback forums with leaders and communities, complaints and grievance mechanisms, sponsorships and partnerships, collaborative agreements, media engagement on local initiatives, community newsletters, factsheets, websites.
Suppliers
Collaborative guidelines, out-to-market approaches, face-to-face discussions, performance meetings, contractual agreements.
Government
Face-to-face meetings, regular briefings, direct engagement.
Customers
Market tenders, meetings, reports, face-to-face discussions and site visits.
Newcrest also engages in a wide variety of ways with industry and business, non-government organisations, education and research institutions, media and the general public. Engagement with these stakeholders includes face-to-face meetings and discussions, formal presentations, conference attendance, reports, media briefings, hosting visits to our operations, sponsorship and partnership arrangements, and via our website, email and feedback tools.
Our Stakeholders
As a culturally-diverse company operating across many territories and sites, we focus on building and maintaining a constructive dialogue with a broad range of stakeholders, seeking feedback and acknowledging and respecting other points of view. Trusted engagement is fundamental to our success as a sustainable business.
Our stakeholders include our employees and contractors, shareholders, the communities in which we operate, suppliers, governments and regulators, and customers, along with industry and the broader business community, non-government organisations, education and research bodies, the media and general public.
Newcrest proactively engages with government, industry and our local communities in an open, transparent and honest way. We understand different stakeholders have different opinions and expectations about our operations; we respect other points of view and aim to develop mutually- suitable outcomes.
We use formal and informal methods to build and maintain our key relationships to keep stakeholders involved and informed about our plans and business achievements and to explore, record and respond to our stakeholders’ issues and concerns. The types of engagement our teams plan and use are tailored to suit the needs of the stakeholders involved.
Sustainability report
Newcrest's Sustainability Report is based on guidance provided by the Global Reporting Initiative Standards and the AA1000 AccountAbility Principles Standard, as well as ICMM’s broader member reporting requirements.
View 2019 Sustainability Report View 2019 GRI Index
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Safety & Health
We value learning and sharing knowledge to improve how we maintain a safe and healthy workplace, through an emphasis on safety leadership, effective management of critical risks, a focus on health, hygiene and wellbeing and robust process safety management.
Environment
Newcrest reports our environmental performance annually through a Sustainability Report.
Community
Our people
We recognise that our different backgrounds and perspectives help us find better ways to: solve problems; attract and retain the best people; explore, develop and produce more gold safely and profitably; and help make Newcrest a better place to work. This is underpinned by providing our people with the training and support they need to deliver superior results.
Climate change
Our Climate Change policy outlines our approach as we take action to manage our climate change risks and opportunities consistent with our objective to sustainably deliver superior returns to our stakeholders.
Dams and Tailings Management
