sustainability
Inmet has always taken a straightforward approach to sustainability and corporate responsibility: manage business risks prudently and, as much as possible and practical, do what’s best for people and the environment.
We focus on safety and occupational health because we are involved in a business that presents real, and sometimes very serious, hazards that must be managed to ensure the safety and well being of our workers.
Our business also involves impacts on the environment, so environmental responsibility has always been an equally high priority. We aim for a net neutral or, ideally, positive impact on the environment over the life of our mines, even when that goes beyond the regulatory requirements of the regions we’re operating in.
And while our formal external relations approaches and proactive community development programs are constantly growing and evolving, we have always strived to be good neighbours.
Our work toward sustainability focuses on six areas:
- Approach
- Policies and standards
- Health and safety performance
- Environmental performance
- Community affairs performance
- Industry involvement
Measuring our performance
Each year we set safety, environmental and community affairs targets for the corporation as a whole.
| Objectives |
Results |
2010 Objectives |
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Safety, environment and community |
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Improve safety and health training |
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- Implement operational excellence
- Continue plan implementation
- SECA standards and HCPs
- water and energy conservation
- community development strategies
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Act on SECA plans, including
- hazard identification
- high consequence
protocols
- waste and water
management
- energy and GHG reduction
- community development
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(see our operation
summaries
starting on page 21 of our 2009 Sustainability Report for more) |
| Corporate initiatives |
Launch an annual
SECA conference
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- Establish the Minera Panamá community foundation strategy
- Forge a corporate biodiversity partnership with an international ecological organization
- Develop a corporate human rights policy and evaluate the benefits of signing on to the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights
- Develop and implement UN Global Compact training and complete our first Communication on Progress
- Engage with financial analysts to improve reputation, build competitive advantage and analyst literacy on corporate responsibility issues
- Evaluate the benefits of becoming a member of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM)
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| Have a third party verify this report |
(see page 47 of our 2009 Sustainability Report for statement) |
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Our operations also establish their own targets, which are detailed in our sustainability report.
We measure our performance using indicators from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM), an initiative of the Mining Association of Canada, along with several indicators we've developed.
Download a copy of our
2009 sustainability report to review our performance and other information in more detail.