Occupational health programmes
Rio Tinto's vision is to eliminate occupational disease in the Group by implementing effective practices to manage exposures in the workplace. This includes both employees and contractors. Our occupational health standards have minimum requirements for contractor health management. However, because of the difficulties in collecting accurate occupational data for contractors, the data reported in these web pages relates to employees only.
People vary greatly in their sensitivity to workplace conditions; some may develop a disease at very low exposures, most only after high exposures. Hence, protection against new cases of occupational disease requires both understanding and control of workplace exposures and detection of the more sensitive worker, often by periodic health monitoring. Our reporting focuses on three main areas:
- New cases of occupational disease.
- Exposures in the workplace, such as noise, dust and radiation. These provide a leading indicator of whether operations are being managed to prevent new cases of occupational disease.
- Management systems for occupational health.
How is health managed?
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