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.
Our Stakeholders
Our aim is to involve our stakeholders in decisions that affect them and to understand their point of view.
To achieve this, we build and maintain open, inclusive and constructive relationships with all stakeholders through listening, respectful dialogue and integrating diverse perspectives into pragmatic solutions.
Our engagement methods are tailored to suit stakeholder needs – we use both formal and informal processes, depending on the relationship and communication context.
We work closely with our employees and contractors, local communities, governments and regulators, shareholders (investors and lenders), suppliers and customers.
We also engage with the broader mining industry through industry groups, as well as non-government organisations, education and research bodies, the media and the public. We record, measure and review our engagement on a regular basis to ensure it is effective. Below are topics of interest raised by each stakeholder group and the engagement methods we use.
Stakeholder Engagement activities
Shareholders
Annual and Sustainability 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.
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.
2020 Sustainability Report 2020 GRI Index and report data
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Safety and 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.
Our people
Our Code of Conduct and company values outline our expectations of employee behaviour. We set employee standards that are aligned to our company values, consistent with industry requirements; and we hold ourselves to account.
Our Communities
Transparent and Ethical Business
Environment
These include our policies for climate change, energy, biodiversity, water stewardship, and safety and health.
Climate change
Dams and Tailings Management
