EMPLOYEE BENEFITS, SAFETY AND HEALTH AT BHP BILLITON

INTRODUCTION

BHP Billiton is a leading global resources company. Its vision has always been to create value for its long term shareholders through the holistic approach of natural resources, which involves 4 major steps, namely discovery of the natural resources, its acquisition, development and management of the natural resources, and finally marketing of the same.

BHP Billiton is a global firm, with operations on a truly worldwide scale, and has been single minded committed in upholding its core values of integrity, respect, simplicity, sustainability, accountability and performance.

BHP Billiton has a strong, unrivalled and enviable portfolio of the best quality opportunities for growth as they intend to continue meeting the ever changing needs of its esteemed customers and the demand for resources of economies across the globe. An Anglo-Australian company, based in Melbourne, Australia, BHP Billiton is the world’s largest mining firm as per 2011 estimates, with revenues of approximately $65.968 billion, and the third largest in the world by market capitalization. It’s key products include aluminium, iron ore, coal, copper, diamonds, gold, manganese, natural gas, nickel, petroleum, silver and uranium.

BHP Billiton has always prided on its asset of a diversified portfolio. It employs a high quality of people, has a strong asset base and has long followed its long term strategy of owning, managing and operating massive, long-life assets with a low operating cost and plenty of scope for expansion. These are further diversified by product location and market. Another strength of BHP Billiton has been to deliver projects on schedule and within budget, in addition to its commitment to continuous investment through the producti...

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Requirements include:

• Identifying potential emergency situations and their impacts

• Defining response plans, roles and responsibilities

• Identifying, maintaining and testing resources to ensure their availability

• Training employees, contractors, visitors and external stakeholders

• Identifying, documenting, sharing and following-up on lessons learned from emergency response drills

A crisis or emergency may be an incident, extreme climatic event, disease outbreak, security issue or any other event that poses a significant threat to:

 The safety or health of employees, contractors, customers or the public

 The environment; our reputation; and/or the physical integrity of an asset

BHP Billiton is a signatory to, and participant in, the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights.

REFERENCES

(i) www.bhpbilliton.com