Sibelco Earns 2023 Safety Achievement Award from Essential Minerals Association
May 09 2024 - 1:07PM
Business Wire
Award Recognizes Zero Recordable Incident Rate
in Medium Company Category
Sibelco, a global leader in material solutions and a leader in
the mining and processing of high purity quartz, has received the
Essential Mineral Association’s (EMA’s) annual Safety Achievement
Award in the Medium Company category for the second consecutive
year. The accolade, presented in partnership with the U.S.
Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA),
recognizes Sibelco’s outstanding safety performance in 2023.
In 2023, Sibelco’s employees worked 309,324 hours with zero
injuries for an all-injury rate of 0.00 per 200,000 employee work
hours.
As part of its global Get to Zero program, Sibelco aims to
achieve zero fatalities and a Recordable Incident Rate (RIR) of
less than 1.5 by 2030. In 2023, the company’s RIR was 1.73 vs. 2.07
in 2022, placing Sibelco in the top quartile of companies in the
mining and metals industry.1
“At Sibelco, safety is integral to our strategy and embedded in
every aspect of our business – from operations to sustainability to
how we engage with our people and local communities. As leaders, it
is our duty to ensure all of our team members return home to their
families safe and injury-free at the end of each working day,” said
Achille Njike, EVP of Operations – Americas at Sibelco.
“Congratulations to the team on earning EMA’s Safety Award for the
second year in a row. Their efforts demonstrate our strong
commitment to putting safety at the center of our operations,
ensuring Sibelco remains the global leader in the mining and
processing of high purity quartz.”
Each year, EMA names only one company in each of its Safety
Achievement Award categories: large, medium and small. Winners are
recognized at EMA’s annual Fall Conference and Fly-in event held in
Washington, D.C. each year.
1
Based on member safety performance data
collected by the International Council on Mining & Metals
(ICMM).
About Sibelco
Sibelco is a global leader in material solutions. Sibelco mines,
processes and sells specialty industrial minerals – particularly
high purity quartz, silica, clays, feldspathics and olivine – and
is a leader in glass recycling. Sibelco’s solutions support the
progress of modern life and serve industries as diverse as glass,
ceramics, construction, coatings, polymers and water purification.
The Sibelco Group has production facilities in more than 30
countries and a team of some 5,000 people. Learn more at
www.sibelco.com.
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