Every gram of gold Minerra Ghana recovers is measured against a simpler number: the count of people who went home safe. We build our operations, our procedures and our contracts around that number staying at 100%.
We reprocess tailings — a working environment where cyanide, heavy plant, high-pressure water and unstable ground are all present on the same site. The only acceptable outcome is that none of them harm anyone.
Zero Harm is Minerra Ghana's controlling commitment. It ranks above production targets, above schedule, and above cost. If a control is compromised, work stops — no exceptions, no calls up the chain.
We operate under a documented HSE management system aligned to ISO 45001 and Ghana's Minerals and Mining (Health, Safety and Technical) Regulations 2012 (L.I. 2182). Every site has a licensed Mine Manager, a resident Safety Officer, and a medic on shift.
Safety leadership is not delegated to the safety department. Every supervisor is measured on it, every contractor is bound by it, and every board meeting opens with it.
Zero Harm is delivered through a fixed set of programs. Each is owned by a named individual, audited quarterly, and reported to the board.
A board-level policy that ranks safety above production, schedule and cost. Signed by every director; reissued annually; visible on every site.
Every task, every plant area and every change is risk-assessed before work starts. Assessments live in a versioned register, not a filing cabinet.
Documented SOPs for every routine task on the plant — from reagent handling to CIL circuit isolation. Written, drilled, and revised on incident.
Every employee completes an induction, task-specific certification, and quarterly refreshers. Refusal to train is refusal to work.
Trained ERT on site, exercised against realistic scenarios: cyanide release, tailings dam event, medical evacuation, plant fire.
Every incident, near-miss and unsafe condition is reported through a single channel. Investigations use ICAM; findings become controls.
Contractors work under Minerra's HSE system, not their own. Prequalification, induction, permits and supervision are non-negotiable.
PPE is issued by Minerra, fitted, replaced free of charge, and enforced. Task-specific kit for reagent handling, working at height and hot work.
Every asset is on a preventive-maintenance schedule tied to duty hours or condition monitoring. Failed inspection means locked out.
Safety and environment share a single system. Air, water, noise, dust and cyanide are monitored continuously; excursions trigger stop-work.
Our safety system is not designed to satisfy us. It is designed to satisfy the auditors, regulators and lenders who hold Ghanaian mining to global account.
Occupational Health & Safety management system — third-party certified, surveilled annually.
Environmental management — integrated with the H&S system as a single HSE stack.
International Cyanide Management Code — protocol adherence for storage, use and destruction.
Ghana Minerals & Mining (Health, Safety & Technical) Regulations — licensed Mine Manager, statutory reporting.
Leading and lagging indicators, disclosed quarterly to the board and annually in the sustainability report.
Lost-Time Injury Frequency Rate.
Per 200,000 hours worked. Reported quarterly to the board, audited annually against ISO 45001. Every workday since inception is a data point behind this number.
Every worker inducted before first shift.
Full-scale emergency response exercises.
Incident investigation to lessons published.
Reports per LTI — a leading indicator, deliberately high.