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Safety, Health and Welfare

Our commitment to Safety

People’s safety remains a non-negotiable value for Nexa and is in line with our goal of becoming a reference in Health, Safety and Welfare. Advancing more and more on these issues, besides being a priority, is a fundamental part of our work.

To achieve this, we focus on three major aspirations:

  • Eliminating fatalities;
  • Reducing the frequency and severity of accidents;
  • Raising the standards of a culture of health, safety and well-being in our units.

With these goals as guides, we work hard to build an increasingly safer environment for everyone and consolidate a health and safety culture focused on Zero Harm based on effective risk management and genuine care for people.

Continuous work and tangible progress

20%

Reduction in accident frequency

Continuous work and tangible progress

Our safety standards go beyond regulations and reinforce mutual care and risk prevention in operations.

In our day-to-day activities, we implement several actions that allow us to advance in important indexes in this area, such as, for example, completing, in December 2021, 31 months without fatalities in operations and celebrating the second consecutive year without fatal accidents in the company.

For a safer operation

To assist in the relentless pursuit of our three aspirations in health and safety, we have an important management tool: the Sustainability Master Plan.

This initiative is composed of eight goals and promotes actions to monitor, raise awareness and advise employees and third parties on a highly safe operation.

The main project of the Master Plan is the development of a program that supports the learning process and the transformation of the culture and behavior of our employees. And, this transformation is based on the adoption of the Global-Mining Industry Risk Management (G-MIRM) that aims to promote changes in the decision making and improvement of risk management.

We also achieved important advances in the goal related to restructuring the health and safety risk management process by implementing a tiered approach. The new set-up provides four layers of risk assessment: site-wide, projects and changes, tasks, and individual risk.

Strategic plan

To reinforce our commitment to health and safety, we have developed our Nexa Strategic Plan. The main actions are directed to the following areas:

Culture Transformation

Based on the G-MIRM (Global Mineral Industry Risk Management) methodology, Nexa’s Zero Harm Journey has the main purpose of promoting significant and lasting changes in decision-making at all hierarchical levels, creating and improving sustainable and effective management of risks in the company.

Emergency Management

Actions such as investments in material resources, team training, processes and procedures have been carried out to prepare and respond to emergencies. Acting in the mitigation of the consequences of serious events is part of our commitment to people and society.

 

SSO Engagement

Our ability to mobilize our own and third-party workers in the face of SSO and Wellness initiatives is extremely important to strengthen our culture, engage and recognize our people. Several initiatives have been carried out in recent years to mobilize and engage people in search of appropriate behavior in the activities we carry out.

Health, Occupational Hygiene and Welfare

We also prioritize the health and well-being of our people. Therefore, several actions have been carried out in recent years both to manage the advancement of the pandemic and to improve the daily health and well-being of our employees.

Layered Risk Management

The implementation of this process makes it possible to organize the risk management of: processes, new projects and changes, routine and non-routine activities and risk management face to face with activities in an integrated manner.

Management Systems

Nexa’s Health and Safety management system is aligned with the best practices and international standards, with the main objective of adding value to our business. Examples of continuous improvement in our processes are: our fatality prevention program, critical risk protocols, golden rules and computerized systems implemented in recent years.

External Image

Being recognized by the main stakeholders as a reference in Health, Safety and Welfare is something that we have worked tirelessly. Therefore, we also focus on strengthening and expanding our relationship, understanding and meeting the needs of workers, contractors, government institutions, associations and institutes.

Resources and Infrastructure

Investments in machine protection, electrical installations, ovens, lifelines, work platforms, equipment, computerized systems and emergency equipment are examples of the improvements we have made in recent years. In line with our priorities, investments in resources and infrastructure are part of our process of continuous improvement of our Occupational Health and Safety management.

Learn about our initiatives

To strengthen our health and safety culture and achieve our health and safety goals and objectives, we have created a number of communication, participation, and consultation programs:

Nexa Safety Day

Nexa Safety Day

With the slogan Zero Harm, the event promotes a culture that seeks to avoid generating damage, injuries, losses and impacts in the lives of employees.

Sipat & Sipatmin

Sipat & Sipatmin

The Internal Week for the Prevention of Accidents at Work promoted several activities, webinars, and events aimed at raising awareness among employees and service providers about the prevention of accidents and occupational diseases, extending the focus of attention to families.

Go Nexa

Go Nexa

This three-month event allows employees and their families to carry out, through an application, healthy eating and physical activity missions, improving their health and quality of life.

Face it

Face it

Focused on the treatment of alcohol and other drugs abuse, the program offers support to employees and their families through information and guidance on how to seek help and treatment.

ORO (Occupational Risk Observation)

ORO (Occupational Risk Observation)

Seeks to identify and control the risks of activities in the present, so that it is possible to reduce undesirable consequences in the future, by means of the assessment of safe behavior during the execution of the activities.

Proa Movement

Proa Movement

Held in December and January, considered critical months in the occurrence of accidents, this movement aims to increase the level of attention of employees, so that they always remain alert, intensifying the use of protection tools to enhance our safety performance. Stop, reflect, observe, and act are the guidelines that help us meet the goal of reducing accidents in the organization.

Confronting COVID-19

Caring for people’s health and well-being is a key factor for Nexa Resources. Therefore, during the new coronavirus pandemic, we act on six areas: management, control, health, laboratory support, communication and innovation.

 

To ensure greater efficiency in managing the crisis generated by the pandemic, we work with central and local committees created in the units and updated the policies and guidelines in line with the recommendations of the health regulatory bodies, as well as the screening protocols for entry into the units and the protocols for the identification, analysis, and monitoring of suspected or confirmed cases and contacts.

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Among the actions carried out by our occupational health team are permanent epidemiological monitoring, the management of suspected and confirmed cases, the purchase, and application of COVID-19 tests for employees and service providers, and partnerships with local clinics.

Active search

We managed to contain the COVID-19 spread with the help of the active search action, carried out in all units in Brazil and Peru. The action consisted of testing all employees, to identify and isolate transmissible cases, including asymptomatic ones. Those who tested positive, as well as people they came into contact with, were isolated, thus interrupting the chain of transmission of the disease.

n this way, while the number of cases grew across the country (especially in the second and third quarter of 2021), within the company the rates fell. The results of the action, however, went beyond the numbers. We noticed an improvement in the behavior of workers in relation to exposure to the risk of contamination, as well as a positive impact on the unit’s climate, with an increased sense of security for employees and their families. Workers also reported an increase in the bond of trust with Nexa, and no impact on production or increase in absenteeism was noticed due to the action.

Our aspiration

To be a reference when it comes to safety, focusing on building an increasingly safer environment with zero fatalities and reduction of severe accidents through a strong cultural transformation program in health and safety, including awareness campaigns, counseling, and monitoring for both employees and third parties.

Commitments 2030

  • Zero fatalities in all operating units;
  • Consolidate all units in the first quartile (*) of the mining industry with regard to the Total Recordable Injury Frequency Rate (TRIFR).

(*) Currently, the average Nexa operation is already in the 1st quartile of the industry, considering 2021 as the base year.

Check our indicators

Workers covered by an occupational health and safety management system
Indicadores correlacionados
GRI Dimension:
Social
GRI Code:
403-8
ODS:

Having standardized processes, conducting performance evaluation, developing continuous improvement and boosting the culture in health and safety are key objectives of our operations. For this, Nexa relies on an important tool: the OHS Management System, which was improved in 2021.

Accidents at Work
Indicadores correlacionados
GRI Dimension:
Social
GRI Code:
403-9
Sector SASB:
Mining and Metals
SASB Dimension:
Workforce health and safety
SASB Code:
EM-MM-320a.1 
ODS:
Accidents at Work
2019 2020 2021
Man-hours Worked (own, third party fixed, mobile and CAPEX projects) 51.705.071,01 37.988.386,06 49.087.485,88
Total nº of injuries (Level 1) 161 125 162
Total nº of injuries without time away from work (Levels 2 and 3) 72 61 65
Total nº of injuries with time off (Levels 4, 5 and 6) 39 30 30
Deaths 1 – –
Injury rates (TL)* 0,44 0,48 0,44
Lost time and non lost time accident frequency rate** 2,15 2,40 1,94
Lost time accident frequency rate*** 0,75 0,79 0,61
Near miss rate for own employees N/A N/A 1,98
Fixed third-party employee near-miss rate N/A N/A 0,56
Near miss rate for mobile third-party employees N/A N/A 0,29

 

* Calculation of the injury rate does not include level 1 (outpatient care) and level 6 accidents. The sum of accidents of own employees, fixed third parties, mobile third parties and Capex projects is multiplied by 200 thousand and divided by the total number of hours worked.

** Accident rate with and without lost time, calculated on the basis of the sum of level 2 to 5 accidents involving our own employees, fixed third parties, mobile third parties and

third-party mobile and third-party Capex projects, multiplied by 1 million and divided by total hours worked.

*** Lost time accident rate calculated on the basis of the sum of level 4 and 5 accidents for own employees, fixed third parties, mobile third parties and third party Capex projects, multiplied by 1 million, divided by the total number of hours worked.
Occupational Diseases
Indicadores correlacionados
GRI Dimension:
Social
GRI Code:
403-10
Occupational Diseases
2019  (N/A)
2020  No work-related health problems were registered
2021  (N/A)

N/A: Data not reported for the period

Health, safety and emergency response training
Indicadores correlacionados
SASB Sector:
Mining and Metals
SASB Dimension:
Workforce health and safety
SASB Code:
EM-MM-320a.1
Unidades Horas Médias de Treinamento
2020 2021
Cajamarquilla N/A 29,43
Juiz de Fora N/A 24,01
Três Marias N/A 31,00
Aripuanã N/A 48,84
Atacocha/El Porvenir N/A 17,07
Cerro Lindo N/A 7,31
Morro Agudo N/A 27,32
Vazante N/A 30,73

Amounts reported for own employees

N/A: Data not reported for the period

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

 

In 2017 we signed the commitment to the global agenda consisting of 17 goals and 169 targets to be achieved by 2030.

SDGs related to the theme

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