Company: RTNTF
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-006642
Chunk: 153

Company: RIO TINTO LTD
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 20-F
Chunk 153
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 our teams continued to reconnect with why we have CRM and enhance the quality of verifications by checking the right critical controls are in place for each task. In 2024, we began work to strengthen our safety control framework to align with our evolving risk profile, which will extend into 2025. This will enable us to improve safety and enhance assurance. By offering visibility into the performance of the framework, we can proactively identify improvement areas and adapt before something goes wrong. Safety maturity model Leadership and strong processes are critical in driving a sustained improvement of our safety performance and safety culture. This is evident in the implementation of our safety maturity model (SMM), introduced in 2019. SMM is our blueprint for safety, integrating best practices in leadership, engagement, learning, risk management and work planning, as well as operational ownership of health and environmental risks. In 2024, we continued to work closely with our assets to evaluate and evolve their safety maturity and foster both physical and psychological safety. Through this, we have refined our assessor training program, placing more emphasis on elements such as mindsets, behaviours and felt experiences. This supports our belief that all employees and contractors should feel empowered to work safely, speak up and make decisions that prioritise their wellbeing. While we acknowledge cultural transformation is a long-term journey, we are encouraged by our SMM assessments outcomes in 2024. These have significantly deepened our understanding of each site’s safety culture and support actionable insights to guide us towards creating an even safer work environment. In 2025, we are looking to further evolve SMM to improve safety across our value chain and support our Best Operator focus. Safety and health performance

|                                                                   |   2024 |   2023 |   2022 |   2021 |   2020 |
| Fatalities at managed operations                                  |      5 |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| All-injury frequency rate (per 200,000 hours worked)              |   0.37 |   0.37 |   0.40 |   0.40 |   0.37 |
| Number of lost-time injuries                                      |    270 |    236 |    225 |    216 |    187 |
| Lost-time injury frequency rate (per 200,000 hours worked)        |   0.23 |   0.23 |   0.25 |   0.25 |