Our enhanced Mining Principles strengthen social and environmental requirements, on issues such as labour rights, resettlement, gender, access to grievance mechanisms, mine closure, pollution and waste. Implementation is supported by robust site-level validation, credible assurance and transparent disclosure. Aligned with the objectives of other responsible sourcing initiatives, our assurance and validation procedure reinforces commitments to transparency, and ensures the credibility of reported progress.
Recognising a need to help reinforce the integral role of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) to sustainable development, in June 2022 ICMM incorporated critical updates to the Mining Principles to include additional actions to eliminate all forms of harassment and unfair discrimination from the workplace, and set out proactive steps to achieve gender equity. This is an important first step in enabling the unencumbered participation of all peoples and in cementing the importance of psychological safety alongside physical health and safety in our efforts to achieve zero harm. We encourage all mining companies to implement these standards to improve performance on this critical issue for the industry.