Health and wellbeing promotion programs

OZ Minerals operations involve activities and chemicals which have the potential to harm the health of its people. Our goal is to minimise health related risks across the company. Each of our operations has health and wellbeing programs in place for both employees and contractors.

The table below outlines some of the programs that were implemented during the reporting period.

Medical and health surveillance

The majority of our operations have processes in place to conduct medical and health surveillance activities for employees. These medicals can occur at different periods during the course of employment including:

• Pre employment – this assessment is generally completed prior to engagement or immediately following engagement
• During employment – this assessment is completed at different times during employment. These can be annual, bi annual or every three years. The difference in the assessment period can be driven by risk, operation’s policy or legislation
• Exit employment - this assessment is completed when an employee or contractor’s employment relationship is concluded

The following table provides a summary of employee medical and health surveillance assessments across OZ Minerals operations.

The following table identifies occupational activities in which workers may have a high risk of exposure to specific disease. Our operations have management plans in place to address potential exposures and reduce the risk to our workforce.

Fitness for work

OZ Minerals operations have fitness-for-work programs in place to ensure that all persons at our operations present for work in a condition that will not pose a safety risk to themselves or others.

At OZ Minerals, the fitness-for-work program includes a wide range of activities and education including fatigue management, employee assistance programs, functional assessments, access to fitness centres or activities along with alcohol and drug programs.

Fatigue management programs are in place at Century, Golden Grove, Rosebery, Sepon and Martabe. These programs are still under development at Prominent Hill.

OZ Minerals is committed to educating our people on matters relating to alcohol and drugs. This education is supported by testing programs for both alcohol and drugs at all mine sites with the exception of Sepon where only alcohol testing is conducted. Drug testing is scheduled for introduction at Sepon in 2009.

Fitness-for-work programs are generally coordinated at an operation level with similarities in approach across the company, as summarised in the table below.

The intent of all our Fitness-for-work programs is to provide our people with the necessary education and information to self manage their own fitness-for-work.

During 2008 work commenced through the integration process to develop a standard that aligns all these programs across the company. This process is expected to be completed during 2009.