1675 Given the geographic and operational diversity of many mining groups, companies should also reconsider whether strict global standardisation inadvertently ignores local workforce needs and operating conditions. A more tailored local approach, aligned to enterprise intent but designed for local usability, may deliver better outcomes. A fatality prevention re-set could include the following actions: 1. Test for presence of the syndrome across operations (complexity inflation, tool overlap, ambiguity, compliance-driven behaviours, and declining control quality). 2. Quantify the full commercial impact of the current situation (direct and indirect cost, productivity drag, reliability losses, and disruption exposure) and build an investment case for the re-set. 3. Renew strategic commitment to fatality elimination and develop options for genuine breakthrough improvements. 4. Lift the mandate and capability of the safety function to operate as a strategic partner, enabling joint problem-solving with operations rather than compliance assurance alone. 5. Evaluate solution pathways, including simplification and reconstitution of existing systems, or a zero-based redesign for next-generation controls. 6. Co-design a lean safety system portfolio with operational teams and workforce change agents; retire dated or non-core artefacts; and optimise for belief, usability, and full adoption of the modernised suite. 7. Integrate contracting partners as a central design requirement so contractor work realities, language needs, and risk profiles are built into the approach. 8. Adopt bottom-up transition management, building ownership and understanding at the shopfloor; use the transition to refine systems, rebuild relationships, and re-establish a credible safe-work culture. A reset is not a call for “more safety.” It is a call for better safety: simpler, clearer, workforce-fit controls that strengthen risk management, rebuild trust, and improve operational reliability—so that sustained fatality-free performance becomes normal and scalable again.
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