Sustainability is a fundamental factor in the delivery
of Darkstone Strategy 2025. Darkstone approach is
inspired by the company's commitment to three
cdriving forces in the world of sustainability
Vision 2030 of Saudi Arabia
In Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Government has launched a
countrywide initiative to diversify the economy and
create jobs. The Saudi Vision 2030 places great
importance on social and environmental care. As a
result, there is increasing national regulatory focus
on the environmental performance of businesses,
health and safety of communities, and growing
commitment to corporate social responsibility.
Environment, Health, Safety, and Security (EHSS) is at the heart of every decision we make. We acknowledge that we operate in the mining and mineral processing sector, which has potential hazards, and therefore sound EHSS management is fundamental to our business. We firmly believe all incidents are avoidable when risk is managed proactively.
Our established EHSS Policy and Management System Framework contains the guiding principles that empower the following undertakings:
We are committed to complying with all applicable EHSS laws, regulations, and obligations;
Our EHSS management focuses on properly mitigating hazardous aspects of Ma’aden activities to achieve world-class performance beyond regulatory compliance to prevent EHSS incidents, ensure workers’ wellbeing, optimize resource conservation and energy efficiency, waste minimization, emissions reduction, and ensure biodiversity conservation;
We enable and practice safe and healthy lifestyles and behaviors both on and off the job;
We implement systems and provide equipment to prevent harm to people and the environment to enable a healthy, safe, secure and environmentally responsible workplace;
We integrate sound EHSS management throughout the whole lifecycle of our assets and products, spanning their full value chain in Ma’aden, including development, procurement, operation and maintenance, decommissioning of mines, and rehabilitation.
We actively engage our stakeholders, including our employees, investors, supply chain, local communities, and customers to understand their EHSS objectives and address their concerns;
We are committed to providing best-in-class training and ensuring the capability, competency, and wellbeing of our employees across our facilities and affiliates;
We will work closely with our contractors to ensure that they have appropriate EHSS management systems that will guarantee only qualified contractors’ personnel are working at our facilities and affiliates;
Our EHSS objectives and continual improvement plans are based on proactive risk management, which aims to progressively prevent and minimize impacts, losses, and injuries;We will investigate all our EHSS incidents to identify root causes, learn from incidents both within and outside of Ma'aden to continuously improve our operational excellence, and comprehensively and transparently report on all aspects of our EHSS performance.We recognize that our EHSS culture, management, and performance is dependent on our leadership at all levels and the ownership of each and every one of us.
The security of Darkstone employees and facilities has always been a top priority. Darkstone works hard to ensure that qualified and skilled staff and advanced technologies are deployed to protect its people and assets.
