Sustainable Development
Health, Safety, Environment and the Community
The BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance is dedicated to the principles of sustainable development, which includes the wellbeing of our people and communities, and a fundamental respect for the environment. BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance is committed to developing, implementing and maintaining management systems for health, safety, environment and the community that are consistent with best practice.
This is embodied in our Charter which states that BMA has 'an overriding commitment to health, safety, environmental responsibility and sustainable development. The BHP Billiton Sustainable Development Policy develops this commitment further by setting out our approach to managing health, safety, the environment and the community.
The commitment is given practical effect by BHP Billiton's Health, Safety, Environment and Community (HSEC) Management Standards, and the systems, procedures and operational protocols through which these standards are applied at a site level. Through them, we seek to achieve across all our sites, the company's goal of 'zero harm to people and the environment.'
'Zero harm', simply put, means that we aspire to create a workplace that is injury, illness and incident free, and seek to minimise, and where possible eliminate, our environmental impacts over time.
Another key element of sustainable development is the economic and social benefits BMA brings to its various stakeholders - its owners and employees, the other businesses that supply it with goods and services, and the communities in which we operate.