Workforce empowerment is crucial to both operational efficiency and safety, making it a key factor for our business and the mining industry. Empowering employees—through training, skill development, and decision-making authority—enhances their ability to contribute to problem-solving and innovation, leading to improved productivity and reduced risks. Given the complex and high-risk nature of mining operations, we believe an empowered workforce is essential for maintaining safety standards, maintaining regulatory compliance and achieving long-term sustainability goals.
Our people management framework outlines key principles and actions across three core components— Empower, Build, and Enhance.
Empower Workforce Development and Career Growth: Empower employees by providing continued opportunities for skill development, professional growth, and career progression. We do this by providing education, technical training and leadership development opportunities through established career development framework and progression routes.
Culture of Inclusion: Build a collaborative, inclusive, and performance-driven culture where employees feel valued, heard, and motivated to contribute to the Company’s success. We enable this by establishing open channels for employee feedback, implementing formal recognition programs and encouraging cross-functional collaboration. All employees, including the hourly workforce, is trained through our robust compliance programs to reemphasize the importance of an inclusive culture through topics like 'anti-bullying'.
Enhance Employee Engagement and Retention: Enhance organizational performance and employee satisfaction through inclusive practices that promote engagement, retention, and long-term success. We foster this by pursuing creative and unbiased recruitment strategies, employee training, seeking employee feedback and promoting employee career development.
Health, safety and security are essential to the well-being of our employees, contractors and communities. Unmanaged safety exposures can impact our workforce’s well-being, disrupt operations, affect compliance and damage community trust. By managing such risks effectively, we foster a culture of care in the Company, meet regulatory requirements, support operational continuity and maintain stakeholder confidence, which contribute to the long-term success of our operations and the Company.
Our health and safety strategy is built on ten core elements designed to foster a strong safety culture and further improve workplace safety. This strategy focuses on eliminating exposure and reducing vulnerabilities through proactive measures. Coeur is part of the National Mining Association and has implemented the CORESafety system, reinforcing our commitment to industry-leading health and safety practices.
Our safety culture is built on four pillars to promote engagement, risk reduction and the well-being of our workers:
We prioritize the proactive evaluation and management of total worker health risks, encompassing thorough assessments across vendors and employees. Coeur’s responsibility to total worker health is driven by our goal of fostering an exposure-free, illness-free, safe workplace for all. Coeur’s Total Worker Health program integrates occupational health with primary health and wellness to promote a healthy work and home life for our employees and their families.
More information on our employee health and well-being initiatives can be found on the Careers page.
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