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Good Heath and Well-being

Our commitment to Safety

The safety of people continues to be a non-negotiable value for Nexa and is in line with our goal of becoming a benchmark in Health, Safety and Well-being. Progressing increasingly further on these issues, in addition to being a priority, is a fundamental part of our work.

For such, we focus on three great aspirations:

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

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

Continuous work and concrete advances

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Reduction in the frequency of accidents

Continuous work and concrete advances

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

In our daily activities, we have implemented several actions that allow us to advance in important targets in this area, such as when we completed, in December 2021, 31 months without fatalities in operations and we celebrated the second consecutive year without fatal accidents in the company.

For a safer operation

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

The Plan is composed of eight priority goals that result in actions and projects aimed at developing and sustaining high health and safety standards in our operations.

The main project of the Master Plan is to develop a program that supports the learning process and transforming the culture of our employees. This transformation is based on the adoption of the Global-Mining Industry Risk Management (G-MIRM) that promotes significant and lasting changes, involving decision-making at all the Company’s hierarchical levels, creating and improving the effective management of risks in our operations in a sustainable manner.

The new configuration provides for four layers of risk assessment: risks of unit processes, projects and changes, activities and tasks and risks of work streams.

Strategic plan

We have prepared our Strategic Health and Safety Plan, whose main actions are aimed at:

Culture Transformation

Based on the Global Mineral Industry Risk Management (G-MIRM) 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 risk management in the company.

Emergency Management

Investments in material resources, personnel training, processes and procedures have been made 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, promoting engagement with new behaviors and healthy habits. Several initiatives have been carried out in recent years to mobilize and engage our employees in actions and projects that contribute to proper behavior in the activities performed.

Health, Occupational Hygiene and Well-being

We also prioritize the health and well-being of our people. Therefore, several actions have been implemented in recent years both to manage the progress of the pandemic and to improve the daily health and well-being of our employees in the work environment and outside it.

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.

Integrated Management System

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

External Image

Being recognized by the main stakeholders as a benchmark in Health, Safety and Well-being is something we have been working towards incessantly. Therefore, we also focus on strengthening and expanding our relationship by understanding and meeting the needs of workers, contractors, government institutions, associations and institutes.

Resources and Infrastructure

Investments in machinery protection, electrical facilities, furnaces, lifelines, work platforms, equipment, IT systems and emergency equipment are examples of the improvements made in recent years. In line with our priorities, investments in resources and infrastructure are part of our continuous improvement process of our Occupational Safety and Health management

Get to know our initiatives

To strengthen our culture focused on health and safety, and achieve our goals and objectives in this area, we have created several communication, participation and consultation programs, including the following:

Nexa Safety Day

Nexa Safety Day

With the motto Zero Harm, the event fosters a culture that seeks not to generate damages, injuries, losses and impacts on the lives of employee.

Sipat & Sipatmin

Sipat & Sipatmin

The Internal Workplace Accident Prevention Week promoted several activities, webinars and events aimed at raising the awareness of own 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 app, healthy eating and physical activity missions, improving their health and quality of life.

“Enfrente” Program

“Enfrente” Program

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

ORT (Remark of Occupational Risks)

ORT (Remark of Occupational Risks)

Seeks to identify and control the risks of current activities, so that it is possible to reduce undesirable consequences in the future, through the assessment of safe behaviors during the performance of activities.

Proa Movement

Proa Movement

Held in December and January, considered critical months for accidents, this movement seeks to increase the level of attention of employees, so that they are always alert and intensify the use of protection tools to enhance our safety performance. Stop, reflect, observe and act are the directions that help us to achieve the goal of reducing accidents in the organization.

Coping with 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.

In 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
Correlated indicators
GRI Dimension:
Social
GRI Code:
403-8
SDG

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.

Work-related injuries
Correlated indicators
GRI Dimension:
Social
GRI Code:
403-9
Sector SASB:
Mining and Metals
SASB Dimension:
Workforce health and safety
SASB Code:
EM-MM-320a.1 
SDG
Work-related injuries
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.
Work-related ill health
Correlated indicators
GRI Dimension:
Social
GRI Code:
403-10
Work-related ill health
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
Correlated indicators
SASB Sector:
Mining and Metals
SASB Dimension:
Workforce health and safety
SASB Code:
EM-MM-320a.1
Units Average Training Hour
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

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