Yamana has 10 Fatal Risk Protocols that target higher-risk activities with the potential to cause fatal injuries and establish minimum performance expectations for managing these risks. An additional component of these protocols is Life Saving Controls (LSC), which focus specifically on the controls within the FRPs that are most likely to prevent the loss of life. These are the controls that are regularly verified as being in place and working effectively to prevent injury.

Fatal Risk

Lock Out
Tag Out

Lock Out Tag Out

Eliminate and/or control the potentially fatal risk involved in the use of uncontrolled energies in equipment and machines.

Hazardous
Materials

Hazardous Materials

Eliminate and/or control the potentially fatal risk involved in the use, handling, storage and disposal of hazardous materials.

Explosives and
Flammable Materials

Explosives and Flammable Materials

Eliminate and/or control the potentially fatal risk involved in the use, transport, handling and storage of explosives and flammable materials.

Ground
Control

Ground Control

Eliminate and/or control the potentially fatal risk involved in the fall, release and sliding of rocks and/or other materials.

Work at Height

Work at Height

Eliminate and/or control the potentially fatal risk involved in working at heights.

Vehicles and
Machinery

Vehicles and Machinery

Eliminate and/or control the potentially fatal risk caused by the operation of mobile machines and equipment.

Confined
Spaces

Confined Spaces

Eliminate and/or control the potentially fatal risk caused by work in confined spaces.

Protective
Devices

Protective Devices

Eliminate and/or control the potentially fatal risk caused by a lack of protective devices on equipment.

Cranes and
Slings

Cranes and Slings

Eliminate and/or control the potentially fatal risk caused by the operation of lifting equipment such as cranes and slings.

Underground
Fires

Underground Fires

Eliminate and/or control the potentially fatal risk caused by underground fires.

All site personnel, including contractors, undergo comprehensive health, safety and task training prior to the commencement of their work with Yamana. This training includes a general induction, covering emergency procedures, proper safety protocols, as well as task and equipment training specific to the work that they will be doing on a Yamana site. Employees must receive training on specific activities prior to commencing work, as well as regular training updates throughout their employment. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Training on personal protective equipment (PPE);
• Hazardous materials storage and use;
• Safe driving procedures;
• The obligation to refuse unsafe work; and
• Introduction to Yamana’s Fatal Risk Protocols.

We strive to equip our people with the tools, training and mindset that result in continual health and hygiene awareness. From our operations to our offices, we seek an incident- and illness-free workplace. Monitoring and sampling are conducted by qualified persons for chemical, biological and physical hazards to ensure that workplace exposures are controlled and do not adversely affect the health of our employees and contractors.

We start with our hiring practices, which aim to ensure everyone at our operations prioritizes health, as well as safety. Once hired, each employee and contractor immediately begins learning about our health, hygiene and medical standards and protocols. New employees and contractors undergo training to learn about the health hazards that they might encounter in their workplaces and are provided training on the controls required to minimize exposures. Training includes information on chemical hazards as per the Global Harmonized System, formally known as the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS). Each of our operations in South America have site health clinics staffed by occupational doctors and nurses who not only respond to workplace incidents, but also provide wellness training and wellness checks on a regular basis, as required. Our sites require that all persons receive pre-employment, periodic and exit medicals, all of which help ensure that workplace conditions are not adversely affecting their health.

One important way we build the desired workplace culture and manage risks at Yamana is through Visible Felt Leadership (VFL) across all sites, corporate and regional offices.

This concept guides our leadership actions at Yamana, by encouraging people from all levels of the organization to promote health and safety through their visible actions every day. Through VFL, leaders demonstrate the importance of our employees’ safety through listening to workers describe their work, the associated hazards and then validating that the controls are in place and are effective in reducing risk. This, as well as participating in and encouraging a variety of health and safety activities throughout the site, demonstrates that the goal of zero is everyone’s responsibility and a priority for the Company.

All sites follow the Significant Incident Reporting (SIR) procedure, which seeks to ensure that learnings from incidents are shared throughout the operation and across our sites to reduce the chances of reoccurrence.

Incident investigations are completed on all actual and potential significant incidents using the Incident Cause Analysis Method (ICAM) technique. The results from the SIR investigations are shared monthly across sites, with site level and corporate management, including the Senior Executive Group, to reinforce a culture of safety and accountability within Yamana.

ICAM analysis

The learning process embedded in the SIR procedure also helps generate a workplace culture that encourages not only incident reporting, but also the reporting of conditions and situations that could lead to an accident with potentially high severity, called High Potential Incidents (HPIs).

We focus on and incentivize reporting of HPIs with low actual consequences, as they provide us with an opportunity to understand missed controls in events where an employee was not injured, thereby ensuring controls can be developed and put in place to prevent injury in the future from a similar event. These incidents are shared across the organization, including with the Senior Executive Group, to maintain accountability, share lessons learned and reduce the potential of recurrence of a similar incident. For more details on how we link HSEC to operational and executive compensation, please see Our Approach.

Through the use of HPIs, SIRs and monthly and quarterly SIR meetings, we have improved knowledge sharing throughout the Company, not only of the incidents themselves, but of the root causes and mitigation strategies, with the aim of ensuring that similar situations are not repeated at any of our operations. These incident investigations are a key component of our leading indicators.