Anglo American has briefed its Grosvenor Mine workforce on its plans to review the employment model at Grosvenor, following the introduction of changes to the mine’s bonus incentive scheme in January.

Chief Executive Officer of Anglo American’s Metallurgical Coal business, Tyler Mitchelson, said the review followed the safe and successful restart of longwall mining operations at the site on Monday (21 February).

“With longwall mining commencing this week, our focus remains on our people and ensuring safe and stable operations.

“We have advised our Grosvenor workforce that we will commence a review of our employment model at Grosvenor, including looking at the best way to support our workforce who have supported us through a difficult period.

“Since May 2020, we have continued to support our workforce at the mine, as we progressively resumed full operations.

“Supporting and retaining skilled personnel is a key priority for us in ensuring the future sustainability of our business. As part of this work, we have been progressively increasing the number of permanent roles at our five mining operations in Queensland, including creating around 130 new permanent jobs over the last six months, with more underway.”

“Across our other mines, we have majority permanent, operational employee workforces, and we encourage our people to live locally including through rental subsidy programs and other initiatives.”

Mr Mitchelson said the review would build on the company’s work in reviewing existing bonus structures across its sites from late 2020 to ensure they aligned with leading safety practices.

“We consulted extensively with our people, to identify opportunities to increase our focus on leading safety indicators, in line with our global Elimination of Fatalities program.

“On 1 January this year, Grosvenor became the first of our sites to move to a new structure, focused on incentivising safety lead indicators, including hazard reporting, and planned work,” he said.