SuStainable Development Covering health, safety, environmental and community performance for the year ended 30 June 2008 www.bmacoal.com Cover: Lexie Frankham, Goonyella Riverside Mine contents This page: Stuart Davison, South Walker Creek Mine note from marcelo bastos.............. 1 introduction ..................................... 2 Health & Safety................................ 3 Supporting our communities .......... 5 environment ..................................... 9 indigenous Relations ..................... 14 economic ....................................... 16 01 note from marcelo bastos Welcome to BHP Billiton Mitsubishi During FY08, climate change was Alliance’s (BMA) 2008 Sustainable a key focus area for BMA. Our new Development Report. growth projects have enabled us to take a ‘best practice’ approach This report details the progress we to reducing and mitigating our have made over the past year, our greenhouse gas emissions through current sustainable development a number of avenues including priorities and objectives, and how energy efficiency. we work to manage and govern our sustainability activities. Our Energy Excellence program, which aims at ensuring behavioural We were greatly encouraged by the change, innovation and technological feedback from our 2007 report. We are progress, is a key element of our proud of the progress we have made, overarching climate change approach. but we also acknowledge many areas for further improvement. Needless to say, the biggest environmental and social impact Our commitment to the health and during FY08 was the devastating safety of our people is absolute, and Central Queensland floods, affecting our impacts on the environment all our mine sites. and community also must not be As detailed further in this report, our compromised. employees not only supported our The nature of our business means it communities, but showed enormous takes a strong team effort to realise commitment and team work in these commitments, and I greatly managing the release of water and value the support of all our operations. restoration of our operations. Our ongoing focus on the health I encourage you to provide feedback and safety of our employees was on our performance and this report. We are proud of the demonstrated through our improved Please share your views by filling out progress we have reporting statistics and in the the feedback form at the end of this report. We look forward to hearing made, but we also reduction in our Reportable Injury Frequency Rate from FY07. from you. acknowledge many areas for further However, despite this improvement, improvement. we are a long way off what we need to achieve and we must keep safety at [Marcelo Bastos , the forefront of everything we do, at Chief Executive Officer] work and at home. Marcelo Bastos Chief Executive Officer BMA SuStainable development RepoRt 2008 introduction BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance Basin coal mines – Blackwater, (BMA) is Australia’s largest exporter Broadmeadow, Goonyella Riverside, 2008 ScorecArd of seaborne metallurgical coal. Our Peak Downs, Saraji, Norwich Park (Year ended 30 June 2008) mines have a combined production and Gregory Crinum – and the Hay capacity of more than 58 million Point coal export terminal near Recordable injury 12.2 tonnes per year, and almost all of the Mackay. Frequency Rate coal produced is used overseas in In addition, BMA manages two mines steel making. bHp billiton HSeC – Poitrel and South Walker Creek – 4.0 performance Rating BMA was formed in 2001, as a on behalf of BHP Mitsui Coal Pty Ltd, (av)* partnership between BHP Billiton which is owned by BHP Billiton (80 and Mitsubishi Development per cent) and Mitsui and Co (20 per environmental protection Pty Ltd under which the two cent). 3.0 agency performance companies share equal ownership Rating (av)** and management of seven Bowen production 50.7 (million tonnes) Zero Harm: our aspirational goal that reflects our Shipments 53.1 continual drive to minimise harm to people, our host (million tonnes) communities and the environment from our activities. *Range 1–5 (5 is best) **Range 1–5 (1 is best) ABBOT POINT COAL TERMINAL 02 Bowen Collinsville LEGEND MACKAY BMA open-cut mine DALRYMPLE BAY COAL TERMINAL BHP Mitsui open-cut mine Glenden HAY POINT COAL TERMINAL Sarina BMA underground mine BMA proposed mine BROADMEADOW Nebo BMA export port GOONYELLA RIVERSIDE SOUTH WALKER CREEK 0 20 40 60 80 Moranbah POITREL Kilometres DAUNIA CAVAL RIDGE PEAK DOWNS SARAJI Dysart NORWICH PARK Middlemount Clermont Tieri Capella GREGORY Yeppoon CRINUM ROCKHAMPTON EMERALD Blackwater R.G. TANNA COAL TERMINAL BARNEY POINT COAL TERMINAL BLACKWATER GLADSTONE Springsure Biloela Thangool Moura health and safety The health and safety of our incidents. This is emphasised by In addition, BMA has also: employees is the first priority of our desire to eliminate Zero Barrier • Commenced the Training and our company. We are committed to incidents, improve the quality of Access Management System creating a workplace that is injury, significant incident investigations, project (TAMS) to standardise illness and incident free, and seek to incorporate hard controls wherever mine and port entrance points and achieve this by creating a mindset and possible, and take lessons learnt from business processes an environment where people believe past safety incidents and implement • Held Contractor Management these objectives are possible. corrective actions across the business Forums to foster alignment with It starts with leaders demonstrating an to ensure they don’t occur again. BMA programs and goals overriding commitment to everyone’s Our ‘One BMA’ projects are • Introduced an equipment care and wellbeing, and ends with focussed on addressing our key compliance program to ensure a safety culture where every person risks and include: all vehicles entering sites are shows a genuine desire to assist and • the installation of an in-vehicle compliant with BHP Billiton support each other in the pursuit of management system in all of our Fatal Risk Control Protocols and Zero Harm. light vehicles, Standard Operating Procedures We acknowledge that injury reduction • the introduction of collision • Developed a BMA change programs alone will not prevent avoidance technology, management standard, training fatalities, so we are increasingly package and templates. Roll-out • a behavioural based peer-on-peer focused on eliminating fatal risks. commenced at Broadmeadow and observation program, BMA’s compliance with BHP Goonyella Riverside mines • ZIP safety education program, Billiton’s Fatal Risk Control • Developed a BMA supervisor Protocols (FRCPs) form an integral • Optalert fatigue assessment and Competency Course to meet part of this focused effort. early warning technology, and Queensland coal legislation ABBOT POINT COAL TERMINAL Bowen The FRCPs were developed after • the evaluation of the single and • Implemented a new BMA Safety a rigorous, internal analysis of multiple fatality exposures across Observation Program to replace the significant past incidents and all sites. DuPont process previously used fatalities. Our sites are regularly Our focus was demonstrated during • Undertaken an analysis of Collinsville audited by BHP Billiton, and review Safety Week, a company-wide injuries over the past five years their own compliance through self- initiative to refocus all employees’ to determine causes and trends assessments and the BMA Equipment attention on safety and prevent as part of the injury reduction LEGEND Compliance inspection process. fatalities. The week included program MACKAY BMA open-cut mine Furthermore, BMA has established workshops and feedback sessions • Analysed and documented the DALRYMPLE BAY COAL TERMINAL BHP Mitsui open-cut mine targets to stretch our proactive aimed at providing supervisors with physical demands of all tasks at Glenden HAY POINT COAL TERMINAL reporting of potentially significant additional safety leadership skills. BMA in the JobFit System for use Sarina BMA underground mine in rehabilitation programs BMA proposed mine • Implemented a standardised BROADMEADOW Nebo BMA export port GOONYELLA health and occupational hygiene RIVERSIDE SOUTH WALKER CREEK record system, making BMA one 0 20 40 60 80 Moranbah POITREL Kilometres of the first BHP Billiton businesses DAUNIA CAVAL RIDGE globally to implement such a PEAK DOWNS HOW WE PERFORMED (Year ending June): system Recordable Injury Frequency Rate SARAJI • Commenced a hygiene monitoring and support services program Dysart 22.5 which started with a survey NORWICH PARK 20.4 conducted at each site to direct Middlemount future noise and air quality Clermont 17.2 Tieri 16.6 exposure monitoring programs. Capella GREGORY Yeppoon 14.1 BMA’s overriding commitment to CRINUM 12.2 We improved our health and safety is embedded in the ROCKHAMPTON Recordable Injury EMERALD Frequency Rate (RIFR) BHP Billiton Sustainable Development Blackwater Policy. This means we will not R.G. TANNA COAL TERMINAL for the 2008 financial BARNEY POINT COAL TERMINAL compromise our safety values, and BLACKWATER year from 14.1 to 12.2, but missed our target we will identify, assess and manage GLADSTONE of 11.3. risks to employees, contractors, the environment and our communities. Springsure 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Biloela Thangool BMA SuStainable development RepoRt 2008 Moura 04 key safety initiatives A new method for accessing and dozer BlAde lift cylinder light BrAcket ModificAtion repairing lights on dozers was goonyellA riverSide