Speaker : George Coetzee Vice President Head of Group Safety AngloGold AshantiPresentation : Material Unwanted Event Critical Control Management

AngloGold Ashanti ProfileThird-largest gold mining company in the world, measured by production. Has 17 mines gold mines in 9 countries across the African, Australian and South American Continents. Exploration programmes in both the established and new gold producing regions of the world, e.g. Colombia, Brazil, US. etc.

Outline• Footprint and Major Hazard Management Journey overview• Identification and assessment of MUE’s• Development of Safety Enterprise Risk Scorecard• “Blue Print” BowTie Risk models• CCM registers, criteria & vulnerability• Building Organisational capability• Site specific BowTie Risk models & monitoring regimes• Performance Monitoring and Lessons Learnt

• 65% Reduction in AIFR over 5 years …

• Operations stabilized … variability reduced over 70%

• FIFR … ‘07/’08 step-change… performance sustained, but plateaued…similar ’10/’12

• Weak to no correlation between AIFR & FIFR

• Correlation ≠ Causation, Different variables between AIFR & FIFR

Correlations between AIFR & FIFR

ID+AssesMUE’s

Develop & embed Safety ER Scorecard

HRM Introduction & training delivery

CCM registers, criteria & vulnerability

Develop “Blue Print” Models & MHC guidelines

Building Organisational capability; Leadership alignment, accountability & pro active positioning

Develop Site Specific BowTie Risk Models (3YR plan)

CCM performance requirements, monitoring, accountability & effectiveness enabling tools

Integrate CCM into Work Management process, reducing variability, targets for compliance

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Major Hazard Management Journey overview

Identification and assessment of MUE’s

• Based on ISO 31.000 approach• Related Governance requirements, e.g. King, SOX• Adopted GMIRM “Four Layered” Risk model approach• Six (6) supporting Group HSE HRM procedures• Implementation / Deployment strategy• Identification and assessment of MUE’s

Historical information…HPI’s & Fatal Incidents Risk Control ratings Maximum foreseeable loss

Development of Safety Risk Scorecard

• Top nineteen (19) MUE’s• “High-water mark” risk scores• Aggregate scores per PUE, Operation & Group

“Blue Print” BowTie Risk models• Over 2,000 controls identified… ave 68 (prev) & 28 (mit) controls per

major hazard…• Majority (88%) lower order controls… highlights vulnerability• Control Risk Registers developed and accountabilities assigned

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CCM registers, criteria & vulnerability• Control criteria - Hierarchy aimed at higher order controls• Control quality using set guidance• Critical Control identification:

Control within “dominant” pathways Control within vulnerable pathways Higher order controls Repeatedly used controls Independence in managing release of threat Controls closest to mechanism of release

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Building Organisational capability• Group wide HRM training program…18,000 trained to date

• BTA training - 140 HSE / Risk professionals across the group

• Technical support (45 x BTA workshops facilitated)

• Enabling tools..software licences

• Executive support

• Senior leadership buy in and personal involvement

• Incentivised as leading indicator metric (BSP & LTIPS)

Site specific BowTie models & monitoring regimes

• Developed using set evaluation criteria

• Over 260 Major Hazards analysed, critical controls defined and monitoring regiments implemented

Performance Monitoring

• Enabling tools & data visualisation

• New line-of-sight… Critical Control verification count, compliance and deviation rates by Major Hazard and by Operation

• ~ 105,000 critical controls verified monthly, 96% compliance

• Reducing variability & deviation rate

Performance Monitoring continued…

Lessons Learnt

• Perfection is the Enemy of Progress…

• Proactive strategic positioning

• Senior Leaders get “fist hand” experience of process

• Facilitators profiling - Skills & experience; Credibility; Challenging paradigms

• “Balanced” BowTie Models, detailed enough but not complex

• Minimising number of critical controls

• Critical control selection, accountability, performance & reporting

• Integration into current work management processes

• Responding and addressing non-compliance to critical controls

CCM in context

Discussion and Questions