Randgold Resources Limited is one of the largest and most profitable gold mining businesses in the world. Randgold operates 5 gold mines in 3 African countries – Loulo, Gounkoto and Morila in Mali; Tongon in Côte d’Ivoire and Kibali in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In March 2016, Dr. Haladou Mahaman Manirou, Group Health and Safety Manager, contacted RRC to explore how RRC could help train their senior managers throughout their West African operation.
Dr. Haladou explained the drivers for the approach and the identified training need:
“In 2015, Randgold experienced its first rise in LTIFR [Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate] in five years. Eager to halt and reverse the trend, we implemented a number of measures to improve our safety performance in 2016."
The company understood that a key part of ensuring sustained health and safety improvement was ensuring their staff had the knowledge to maintain the measures introduced, identify potential risks and manage them successfully. This is where RRC were able to help. Over the course of a year, RRC trained 146 management staff and their deputies, covering all departments across their West African operations.
Safety starts at the top, therefore we decided to send 146 management staff including all heads of department and their deputies on the IOSH Managing Safely® training course, to ensure they had the knowledge and skills necessary to assess and manage the various health and safety challenges in their departments.”
RRC’s Steve Burke travelled to West and Central Africa many times over the following year delivering the IOSH Managing Safely® course to Randgold’s managers at their various mines.
