Safety and health

The health and safety of our employees is our first priority, and our primary objective is to operate the business free of injury and harm.

Safety

The health and safety of our employees is our first priority, and our primary objective is to operate the business free of injury and harm.

AngloGold Ashanti’s operating standards are aligned with global best practice and are designed to proactively identify and mitigate potential safety and health risks. We have robust and mature health and safety risk management practices and critical control monitoring systems to help ensure that we quantify and manage impacts and continuously adapt and improve our safety and health strategies.

Our approach to managing workplace incidents is founded on collective and individual accountability, with a strong emphasis on proactively identifying, assessing and mitigating safety and health risks.

This two-pronged approach recognises the fundamentally distinct origins and mitigation requirements for workplace accidents. Each require different mitigation strategies, governance oversight, and performance indicators.

Individual accidents are classified as high-frequency, low consequence events that are driven primarily by human behaviour, error, and localised physical conditions while organisational accidents are defined as low-frequency but high-impact events such as catastrophic failures that can severely harm people, destroy assets, and damage reputation. We manage these types of incidents through a Fatal Hazard Management Programme and a Critical Risk Management process introduced in 2025.

Two pronged approach

Read more about this two-pronged approach and the Critical Risk Management process in the 2025 Sustainability Report: Ensuring safety, health and wellbeing

Performance in 2025

Health and wellbeing

As part of our duty of care, we have a responsibility to ensure the overall wellbeing of those in our employ.  Our drive to operate a business free of injury or harm is extended to employee health and wellbeing. Core among our priorities is the elimination of health hazards that are potentially fatal, carcinogenic, or severely debilitating in the short or long term. This compels us to adopt a proactive approach to preventing occupational diseases and managing health risks from both workplace and community exposures.

Aside from managing workplace exposures, we focus on improving occupational and non-occupational risks such as strengthening food safety management, fatigue prevention, and thermal and tropical disease response amid changing climatic conditions.

Performance in 2025