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We Value Your Comments

We value our stakeholder's opinions regarding our 2023 Sustainability Report.

For more information, questions or comments, please contact::

Patricia Dalence R.

Public Relations Superintendent

patricia.dalence@minerasancristobal.com

(591-2) 262-3400, Extension 2444

CHAPTER 5

Health and Safety

We are committed to maintaining and improving our standards in occupational health and safety to strengthen our preventive culture.
OUR MOTTO

Safety at all times an in all places!

We take responsibility for the care of contractor personnel, encouraging them to adopt our safety standards through a specific program of control and development, ensuring that their indicators match ours.

SAFETY
BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATION
INCIDENTS
EMERGENCIES
DRILLS

Safety Performance

Measuring the performance of the areas (results indicators and preventive indicators) and analyzing the findings of planned inspections and deviations during inspections of critical tasks allows us to identify opportunities for improvement in the industrial safety system. As a result of this analysis, the annual operating programs are reviewed to align them with our tactical plan, which seeks to fulfill the company’s objectives, mission, vision, and values.This is developed with the support of the entire management team, in compliance with legal requirements, in addition to other requirements that are identified and evaluated periodically

Behavioral Observation

In 2023, we undertook various actions to promote employee participation: communicating the importance of the program to the Superintendencies, sending messages through digital media, and recognizing participation in the Behavioral Observation Program.

Incident management

No fatalities were recorded in MSC or the contractors in 2023. Only one lost time incident was reported in contractor Mega Maquinaria. Our workers completed a total of 3,356,430 hours worked, while the contractors accumulated 2,270,091 hours

Emergencies

We have responded to 26 events, 35% of which related to offsite incidents involving vehicles, followed by alarm activations (FAD System) and small fires in mining equipment.The methodology based on support from volunteer brigade members for this type of situations has proven to be most efficient in each one of the described response actions

Drills

Sixteen programmed drills were carried out, five of which evacuation drills, two office based ones and nine operational ones. We should highlight the inclusion and performance of drills by external areas and contractors with the support of the Emergency Response Unit, Exports, Newrest and Tesorera, which gave rise to an increase in the number of drills.

Industrial Hygiene
Program

Industrial Hygiene is a preventive program we have implemented for over ten years to prevent occupational diseases caused by physical and chemical risk agents at work. In 2023, we increased the number of samples of physical agents by 26%, such as vibration, thermal stress, lighting, ventilation, and air quality, conducting a total of 1,085 environmental samples and 339 personal samples. Measurements are carried out by occupational health and safety professionals, following methodologies from ACGIH, OSHA, NIOSH, and Bolivian legislation, with laboratory analyses performed by ALS in the United States, certified by AIHA. The chart on the next page shows the samples monitored in 2023.

Health

In 2023, our health system continued to develop actions to protect the health of our workers and contractors working in the area of operations and in the offices of La Paz and Potosí.

Within the framework of institutional performance, we were able to secure reaccreditation of the health services of the local network granted by the Departmental Health Service of Potosí (SEDES) and certification of the Healthy Company Management System (SIGES) under Bolivian standard NB-512001. We are the only mining company in Bolivia with this certification at the moment.

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