Safety

Revett is committed to providing our employees with a healthy and safe workplace. For our commitment to be met, safety is given the highest priority, from the newly hired all the way to the Chairman of the Board of Directors. Employees must be aware of the safety issues and policies that affect their jobs, other employees, and the community in general. Upon learning of any circumstance affecting the health and safety of the workplace or the community, they must act immediately to address the situation.

At the Troy Mine, individual responsibility is coupled with teamwork to ensure that safety makes it out of the training room and into decision-making on the job. Revett’s management assisted in the formation of a worker-elected safety committee in 2007 to ensure that employees’ voices have a clear and open pathway throughout our corporate structure. Six workers and three alternates are elected to the safety committee to represent each of the mine areas, including the mill, equipment maintenance, and the mine itself. They’re responsible for ongoing communication between the workforce, the safety team of the mine, and the mine’s management. They work with safety managers to ensure that day-to-day issues are dealt with, to meet worker needs concerning training and equipment, to participate in safety audits, and to work with management in resolving MSHA citations.

Tim Lindsey, chairman of Revett Minerals, sums up our corporate philosophy on safety succinctly. He was raised in the Troy area and loves the environment and the culture of northwest Montana. He clearly understands the value of the ore body in Troy and the need to care for the environment while accessing that ore body. And he believes that “we must make a profit to operate, but the most important resource in and on the mountains we love are the people who go to work every day with us and make up the family we call Revett. Our most important corporate goal is to assure that each member of our work family is delivered safely to their family at the end of every shift.”