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A message from our people

Across our business as a whole, our approach is to take measures to help safeguard our people from the spread of COVID-19, while ensuring we are able to continue the day-to-day business of Anglo American.

A Summary of Actions from our Chief Executive Mark Cutifani

"Our wide-ranging efforts in response to this pandemic are directed at where support is most needed, very often in terms of basic services at the local community level in remote areas around our mines. “We also recognise the extraordinary work of so many major charitable and aid organisations. Our employees ask us how they can best contribute financially, beyond the work that so many of them are already doing on the ground."

Mark CutifaniChief Executive, Anglo American

Key financial contributions

30% of fees/salaries donated

Anglo American’s Board directors and Group Management Committee members have agreed to donate 30% of their fees or salaries for three months to their personal choice of COVID-19 related charities or funds.

$2 million to Africa’s solidarity fund

In South Africa, Anglo American and De Beers will be making additional donations of $2 million to South Africa’s Solidarity Fund that exists specifically to help address the impacts of COVID-19.

$25 million on global relief

We are consistently building on the $25 million value of our additional COVID-19 global relief donations and in-kind contributions to date across our host jurisdictions in southern Africa, the Americas, Australia, and the UK.

WeCare: supporting our employees & communities through COVID-19

We have implemented an extensive health awareness and support programme called “WeCare”, specifically to protect the health and wellbeing of our more than 90,000 employees and full-time contractors around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of this programme, we are helping colleagues better understand how to protect themselves and others from catching the virus, monitoring their health to pick up early symptoms, and to manage their health if they test positive for COVID-19.

为了提供most effective and relevant support to our communities, we have designed a Community Response Plan (CRP) to guide site teams as to the initiatives that should be undertaken to support their host communities.

General safeguarding measures and initiatives for employees

Our employees and the communities we operate in are at the heart of our business and we’ve taken decisive, wide-ranging measures to protect both the health and wellbeing of both them and their families. Some of the measures include:

WeCare Health Programme

An extensive health programme called WeCare, specifically to protect the health and wellbeing of our more than 90,000 employees and full-time contractors around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Community Response Plan

A Community Response Plan (CRP) to guide site teams as to the initiatives that should be undertaken to support their host communities.

Direct Response

A direct response to address the effects of COVID-19 that is tailored to the particular and most urgent needs of our host communities and countries, recognising the very different socio-economic factors in each.

Stories

Australia

Australia

In Australia, where the resource sector has been deemed an essential service and continues to operate, we are working closely with government authorities, industry and community organisations to take a coordinated approach to reducing the spread of COVID-19 and keep the communities where we operate safe.

  • All our mine sites and offices have extensive measures and social distancing protocols in place to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and maintain safe operations
  • We are implementing proactive identification of vulnerable people and giving clear advice not to come to work with cold or flu symptoms
  • We are surveying employees, including temperature checking at the mine gate, and continuing active management of employees and contractors who have travelled
  • We are carrying out site risk assessments leading to a range of site-based measures
  • We are supporting vulnerable groups through our grants programme and helping with critical supplies to regions
  • We are reducing commuter workforce movements through our communities by stopping non-essential travel to our sites and relocating some people to live locally
  • 我们从商业转向包机s for our workforce to ensure social distancing and hygiene measures are complied with and to further reduce interaction with the public

Botswana

Botswana

In Botswana, diamonds in general, and the Government’s partnership with De Beers in particular, have played a central role in the country’s socio-economic development. The Debswana (50:50 JV between the Government and De Beers) mines in the country, and the medical facilities that the business has established around them, are providing vital support to Botswana’s medical preparations in relation to COVID-19.

  • We have made facilities available to be utilised by Government health authorities as treatment/isolation centres
  • We have made two ambulances available to support wider healthcare efforts in the country
  • We have compiled databases of retired medical personnel from Jwaneng and Orapa Hospitals for Government health authorities
  • We have been collaborating with District Health response teams to jointly identify and support vulnerable households
  • The local government has been provided with financial support to assist with procurement of supplies, as well as donating much needed items such as sanitiser

Brazil

Brazil

In Brazil, we have purchased respirators and PPE equipment, totalling over $1 million, which are being donated to the healthcare systems in the states and municipalities where our operations are located. The resource sector continues to operate.

  • Ventilators are currently being assembled for delivery to nine municipalities in three states (Minas Gerais, Goiás and Rio de Janeiro) during the course of next week (6 April)
  • We have been participating in various municipal crisis response committees, offering our support in emergency response and crisis management as appropriate
  • We are also providing educational materials on prevention and response to the municipalities, funding informative campaigns on local radio stations and on social media
  • Administrative employees, interns, elderly people, people with medical conditions or who live with people from risk groups are working from home
  • There are sanitation and distance measures in force between employees in work stations, cafeterias, meetings and any other potential points of contact
  • Communications to our communities and employees on prevention, working from home and mental health are being issued regularly
  • We are offering remote communication and collaboration tools

Canada

Canada

In Canada, De Beers’ Gahcho Kué mine is located in a remote northern area where smaller communities provide a significant proportion of the workforce.

  • De Beers has engaged with IBA partners to ensure that employees from communities that are especially vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19 are able to isolate themselves and avoid the risk of bringing an infection back to the community
  • Shift patterns for workers at the Gahcho Kué mine have been adapted to minimise the amount of travel required
  • Gahcho Kué mine has provided funding to each IBA community to purchase food hampers for at-risk community members

Chile

Chile

In Chile, we have set up an emergency fund that will support the supply of key medical and other items, as well as stimulate local economic recovery once the pandemic eases. Our efforts are focused in the Metropolitan and Valparaíso regions, where our operations are located. The resource sector continues to operate.

  • We are planning to implement a series of initiatives that seek to support the vital economic recovery phase for our local communities
  • We have put in place measures to support the contractors and suppliers to our operations
  • In the north of Chile, the Collahuasi mine in which Anglo American owns a 44% interest has donated a state of the art COVID-19 testing machine, which generate results in four hours, to its local Tarapacá Health Service
  • Our main office in Santiago is almost 100% working from home
  • We have reduced the number of workforce and contractors on-site, assuring application of sanitary measures and also business continuity
  • We have organised delivery of sanitary implements for every worker attending operations

Namibia

Namibia

In Namibia, Namdeb Holdings (50:50 JV between the Government and De Beers) plays a key role both nationally and in local communities surrounding diamond recovery areas. Namdeb Holdings and the Debmarine Namibia-Namdeb Foundation have already put in place a range of support both nationally and at a local level in support of the country’s response to COVID-19.

  • Facilities have been made available to be utilised by Government health authorities as treatment/isolation centres
  • The Debmarine Namibia–Namdeb Foundation has ordered 30 ventilators and vital signs monitors for local hospitals, mainly in Windhoek and Oranjemund
  • The Debmarine Namibia–Namdeb Foundation is co-funding a sanitation programme in Windhoek’s informal settlement where households are at high risk due to lack of sanitation services and inability to self-isolate
  • In the town of Oranjemund, Namdeb has provided specific support including the provision of isolation facilities, the purchase of a testing machine (with a commitment that residents without medical aid will be tested for free), personal protective equipment (PPE) for Oranjemund Town Council employees and financial support for the publication of local COVID-19 education material. Isolation facilities have also been provided in the town of Luderitz

Peru

Peru

In Peru, a national quarantine is in place until 12 April and all but critical work on our Quellaveco copper project is suspended. We are supporting emergency efforts in the country and in the area local to our project to combat COVID-19 by providing much needed food, protective equipment, testing kits, transport and intensive care facilities including:

  • 12,000 non-perishable food packages plus 3,000 packages with agricultural products distributed to families in various districts and provinces in Moquegua, where the Quellaveco project is located
  • 4,350 meal packs a day to health employees and volunteers, the army and police
  • 500,000 COVID-19 quick testing kits in partnership with the National Mining Society’s initiative
  • 10,000 protection masks and pairs of gloves for police and army forces
  • Vehicles to help transport health personnel
  • 6 intensive care bed stations, with all required equipment, including ventilators

UK

UK

In the UK, we have made available 13 apartments in our St Andrews House building, which forms part of the Group’s new London headquarters, for NHS staff working at the nearby St Bart’s Hospital over the next three months.

  • 我们的戴比尔斯在处女膜已转换its 3D printers from developing parts for synthetic detection machines, to instead making headbands for the face shields that form part of the PPE being worn by healthcare staff
  • At our Woodsmith Project, we are currently exploring any ways in which we can further support a number of existing local initiatives
  • Only essential site workers are in the office, everyone is else working from home

Australia

Australia

In Australia, where the resource sector has been deemed an essential service and continues to operate, we are working closely with government authorities, industry and community organisations to take a coordinated approach to reducing the spread of COVID-19 and keep the communities where we operate safe.

  • All our mine sites and offices have extensive measures and social distancing protocols in place to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and maintain safe operations
  • We are implementing proactive identification of vulnerable people and giving clear advice not to come to work with cold or flu symptoms
  • We are surveying employees, including temperature checking at the mine gate, and continuing active management of employees and contractors who have travelled
  • We are carrying out site risk assessments leading to a range of site-based measures
  • We are supporting vulnerable groups through our grants programme and helping with critical supplies to regions
  • We are reducing commuter workforce movements through our communities by stopping non-essential travel to our sites and relocating some people to live locally
  • 我们从商业转向包机s for our workforce to ensure social distancing and hygiene measures are complied with and to further reduce interaction with the public

Botswana

Botswana

In Botswana, diamonds in general, and the Government’s partnership with De Beers in particular, have played a central role in the country’s socio-economic development. The Debswana (50:50 JV between the Government and De Beers) mines in the country, and the medical facilities that the business has established around them, are providing vital support to Botswana’s medical preparations in relation to COVID-19.

  • We have made facilities available to be utilised by Government health authorities as treatment/isolation centres
  • We have made two ambulances available to support wider healthcare efforts in the country
  • We have compiled databases of retired medical personnel from Jwaneng and Orapa Hospitals for Government health authorities
  • We have been collaborating with District Health response teams to jointly identify and support vulnerable households
  • The local government has been provided with financial support to assist with procurement of supplies, as well as donating much needed items such as sanitiser

Brazil

Brazil

In Brazil, we have purchased respirators and PPE equipment, totalling over $1 million, which are being donated to the healthcare systems in the states and municipalities where our operations are located. The resource sector continues to operate.

  • Ventilators are currently being assembled for delivery to nine municipalities in three states (Minas Gerais, Goiás and Rio de Janeiro) during the course of next week (6 April)
  • We have been participating in various municipal crisis response committees, offering our support in emergency response and crisis management as appropriate
  • We are also providing educational materials on prevention and response to the municipalities, funding informative campaigns on local radio stations and on social media
  • Administrative employees, interns, elderly people, people with medical conditions or who live with people from risk groups are working from home
  • There are sanitation and distance measures in force between employees in work stations, cafeterias, meetings and any other potential points of contact
  • Communications to our communities and employees on prevention, working from home and mental health are being issued regularly
  • We are offering remote communication and collaboration tools

Canada

Canada

In Canada, De Beers’ Gahcho Kué mine is located in a remote northern area where smaller communities provide a significant proportion of the workforce.

  • De Beers has engaged with IBA partners to ensure that employees from communities that are especially vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19 are able to isolate themselves and avoid the risk of bringing an infection back to the community
  • Shift patterns for workers at the Gahcho Kué mine have been adapted to minimise the amount of travel required
  • Gahcho Kué mine has provided funding to each IBA community to purchase food hampers for at-risk community members

Chile

Chile

In Chile, we have set up an emergency fund that will support the supply of key medical and other items, as well as stimulate local economic recovery once the pandemic eases. Our efforts are focused in the Metropolitan and Valparaíso regions, where our operations are located. The resource sector continues to operate.

  • We are planning to implement a series of initiatives that seek to support the vital economic recovery phase for our local communities
  • We have put in place measures to support the contractors and suppliers to our operations
  • In the north of Chile, the Collahuasi mine in which Anglo American owns a 44% interest has donated a state of the art COVID-19 testing machine, which generate results in four hours, to its local Tarapacá Health Service
  • Our main office in Santiago is almost 100% working from home
  • We have reduced the number of workforce and contractors on-site, assuring application of sanitary measures and also business continuity
  • We have organised delivery of sanitary implements for every worker attending operations

Namibia

Namibia

In Namibia, Namdeb Holdings (50:50 JV between the Government and De Beers) plays a key role both nationally and in local communities surrounding diamond recovery areas. Namdeb Holdings and the Debmarine Namibia-Namdeb Foundation have already put in place a range of support both nationally and at a local level in support of the country’s response to COVID-19.

  • Facilities have been made available to be utilised by Government health authorities as treatment/isolation centres
  • The Debmarine Namibia–Namdeb Foundation has ordered 30 ventilators and vital signs monitors for local hospitals, mainly in Windhoek and Oranjemund
  • The Debmarine Namibia–Namdeb Foundation is co-funding a sanitation programme in Windhoek’s informal settlement where households are at high risk due to lack of sanitation services and inability to self-isolate
  • In the town of Oranjemund, Namdeb has provided specific support including the provision of isolation facilities, the purchase of a testing machine (with a commitment that residents without medical aid will be tested for free), personal protective equipment (PPE) for Oranjemund Town Council employees and financial support for the publication of local COVID-19 education material. Isolation facilities have also been provided in the town of Luderitz

Peru

Peru

In Peru, a national quarantine is in place until 12 April and all but critical work on our Quellaveco copper project is suspended. We are supporting emergency efforts in the country and in the area local to our project to combat COVID-19 by providing much needed food, protective equipment, testing kits, transport and intensive care facilities including:

  • 12,000 non-perishable food packages plus 3,000 packages with agricultural products distributed to families in various districts and provinces in Moquegua, where the Quellaveco project is located
  • 4,350 meal packs a day to health employees and volunteers, the army and police
  • 500,000 COVID-19 quick testing kits in partnership with the National Mining Society’s initiative
  • 10,000 protection masks and pairs of gloves for police and army forces
  • Vehicles to help transport health personnel
  • 6 intensive care bed stations, with all required equipment, including ventilators

UK

UK

In the UK, we have made available 13 apartments in our St Andrews House building, which forms part of the Group’s new London headquarters, for NHS staff working at the nearby St Bart’s Hospital over the next three months.

  • 我们的戴比尔斯在处女膜已转换its 3D printers from developing parts for synthetic detection machines, to instead making headbands for the face shields that form part of the PPE being worn by healthcare staff
  • At our Woodsmith Project, we are currently exploring any ways in which we can further support a number of existing local initiatives
  • Only essential site workers are in the office, everyone is else working from home

Our contribution to society during COVID-19, and beyond

We have developed Asset Value Cases (AVC) for all our regions and business units to articulate how we contribute to broader economy and society during business as usual and during the COVID-19 crisis.

These AVCs will be regularly updated, with the latest versions available below:

Press releases and associated documents

Title
Format

04 February 2021: Anglo American contributes up to US$30 million towards global Covid-19 vaccine roll-out

30 July 2020: COVID-19 Guidance for Community Engagement with Social Distancing

pdf

16 July 2020: Q2 2020 Production Report

10 June 2020: COVID-19 community Response Action Plan: Site Planning Guidance and Template

pdf

10 June 2020: COVID-19 community Response Action Plan: Site Planning Guidance and Template – Annex 1. Rapid Appraisal on COVID-19 Impacts of Community Health and Safety

pdf

13 May 2020: Anglo American supports global fight against gender-based violence through our WeCare lives and livelihoods response to COVID-19

23 April 2020: Q1 2020 Production Report

23 April 2020: Anglo American business update in response to COVID-19

20 April 2020: COVID-19 community response action plan: site planning guidance and template

pdf

20 April 2020: Anglo American employees, Board directors and executive team contribute to global COVID-19 relief efforts

06 April 2020: Anglo American provides extensive COVID-19 support to employees and host communities where it’s most needed

30 March 2020: Anglo American update on De Beers’ third rough diamond sales cycle of 2020

27 March 2020: Anglo American updates response to COVID-19

24 March 2020: Anglo American response to South Africa’s COVID-19 measures

20 March 2020: Anglo American focuses COVID-19 response on people’s health and business continuity

17 March 2020: Anglo American temporarily slows Quellaveco copper project construction

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