Optimum Coal is committed to: 

• Establish and maintain a communication structure and system to regularly inform and engage with all our stakeholders
• Establish and maintain a health, safety and environmental programme which:
  • promotes and strives to maintain an acceptable degree of physical, mental and social wellbeing of all our employees and of people affected by our coal mining activities
  • promotes and strives to achieve an acceptable level of performance in all facets of safety of our employees and of people affected by our coal mining activities
  • promotes the shared responsibility and stakeholder awareness of Optimum Coal’s performance with regard to the environment, prevention of pollution, and sustainable use of the natural resources
• Establish and maintain a community management programme which promotes the shared responsibility and stakeholder awareness about the development, growth and improvement in the quality of life of the community, of our employees and that of the social environment of our operations
• Establish and maintain a quality management system that will determine and comply with all our customers’ requirements relating to products and service delivery
• Continually improve our products and service where possible, through responding to measured customer satisfaction and resulting customer service objectives
• Support and maintain the eight Optimum Coal principles of quality

We will consider ourselves to be successful when we have achieved our Zero Harm targets and when we have been recognised by our stakeholder communities as adding value to their world.

Environmental priorities

• Catching up with the rehabilitation backlog
• Promote efficient energy consumption
• Responsible water management is in place and is constantly being improved
• Clean-up of legacy environmental risk