– These graduates will be the first Oyu Tolgoi specialists trained in-house –
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia – Oyu Tolgoi, which is developing the largest mining project in Mongolia, pursues work safety under the motto “let’s create a work place where everyone can go home safe at the end of each day”.
All global mining companies emphasize the importance of their employees’ safety and health. For instance, for Oyu Tolgoi, which introduces the best Health, Safety and Environmental practices of global mining leader Rio Tinto in the Mongolian mining sector, the recruitment and training of health and safety specialists is very important.
Mongolian universities that train engineers do not provide specialised training in safety. Therefore, Oyu Tolgoi has employed and is currently training 4 engineering graduates from the Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST) in safety.
Training and improving the professional skills of its employees, and developing a Mongolian workforce are vital commitments of Oyu Tolgoi. The trained graduates are now responsible for providing safety skills and knowledge to OT’s contractors’, as well as for creating and nurturing a safety culture and zero accident policy at Oyu Tolgoi.
President and CEO of Oyu Tolgoi LLC Cameron McRae: “Our company operates at the highest global mining safety standards. Now mining is developing rapidly in Mongolia, Mongolian engineering schools and universities face an absolute need to train safety and health specialists, which are very much in demand. Oyu Tolgoi has laid the foundation for the training and development of such safety specialists in Mongolia”.
About Oyu Tolgoi LLC (http://en.ot.mn/)
Oyu Tolgoi LLC is Mongolia's largest copper and gold mining company and is a strategic partnership between the Government of Mongolia (34 per cent stake), Ivanhoe Mines (66 per cent) and Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto is the major shareholder in Ivanhoe Mines and the manager of the Oyu Tolgoi project. In addition to dividends from its 34 per cent stake in Oyu Tolgoi, the Government of Mongolia will receive taxes and royalties.
Oyu Tolgoi, located in the Gobi desert in southern Mongolia, will be one of the largest and highest-grade copper and gold mines in the world. It is the largest project ever developed in Mongolia, requiring a capital investment for phase 1 of more than US$6 billion.
Oyu Tolgoi is committed to contributing to a sustainable future for Mongolia. At least 9 out of 10 employees will be Mongolian once the mine is in production and Oyu Tolgoi is investing US$58 million dollars (78 billion MNT) in training and education and an additional US$27 million dollars (36 billion MNT) in the Workforce Employment Project designed to help address the general skills shortage in Mongolia
Oyu Tolgoi's key priorities are the health and safety of employees, best-practice environmental management, contributing to sustainable communities and always doing business with integrity, for the benefit of all the project's shareholders and the people of Mongolia.
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