Company: RTNTF
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-006642
Chunk: 218

Company: RIO TINTO LTD
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 20-F
Chunk 218
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” and embedding the improvements initiated in 2023, demonstrating improvements in the function’s effectiveness and delivery. We are satisfied that the quality, experience and expertise of GIA are appropriate for the business and that GIA was objective and performed its role effectively. We are satisfied that GIA is appropriately resourced. We also monitored management’s response to internal audits during the year. We are satisfied that improvements are being implemented promptly in response to GIA findings, and believe that management supports the effective working of the GIA function. Committee effectiveness The Committee reviews its effectiveness annually. In 2024, this was accomplished through an internally-facilitated evaluation of the Board and its committees. The performance of the Committee was highly rated, with no areas of concern raised and no significant changes recommended.

| Annual Report on Form 20-F 2024 | 117 | riotinto.com |

Directors’ report Sustainability Committee report The Sustainability Committee monitors and supports Rio Tinto’s processes and practices to ensure we supply the materials the world needs safely and sustainably. The prevention of fatalities, and the health, safety and wellbeing of our employees, contractors and communities, is the Committee’s first priority. The Committee also oversees other key sustainability risks, including in particular our environmental and social performance risks. We are deeply saddened by the tragic fatal events at our managed operations in 2024. In January, 4 colleagues from our operations at Diavik and 2 airline crew members lost their lives in a devastating plane crash near Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada. And in October, an employee of a contracting partner tragically lost his life after he was injured at the SimFer Port Project, part of the Simandou iron ore project. The Committee’s sympathies go out to the families and team members of each of these colleagues who lost their lives. Sadly, in 2024 we also saw fatalities more broadly across our industry, including at the operations of 2 of our non-managed joint venture partners. Our thoughts also remain with the family and colleagues of a crew member aboard a Rio Tinto bulk carrier who was reported missing in December. These events are a solemn reminder of the safety risks in our business. We firmly believe all fatalities are preventable, driving us to learn from these tragedies and ensuring we share insights widely to prevent future events and inform ongoing improvements to our safety practices. Following the charter flight incident in January, while awaiting the outcome of the official investigation by the Transport Safety Board of Canada, the Committee oversaw a review of the Group