Oyu Tolgoi protects the health of its employees

– The mine sets up emergency resuscitation equipment in the workplace –

Trains emergency health volunteers at Oyu Tolgoi with the ZOLL AED-Defibrillator

Oyu Tolgoi LLC, catalyst of Mongolian development, is committed to high productivity and the health and safety of its employees. The mine provides training for employees in first aid and emergency assistance and provides health emergency equipment in the workplace.

To help protect the health of its employees, Oyu Tolgoi has set up 16 cardiac defibrillators in Ulaanbaatar and in the Khanbogd and Dalanzadgad offices of the Umnugobi region. The number of victims of cardiac disease is on the rise in the world, as well in our country. The mine has set up the defibrillators with the aim of preventing death and serious injury caused by heart attacks and strokes. Employees were trained to use the fully automatic and easy-to-operate equipment.

B.Gantulga, Clinic Interface Specialist at Oyu Tolgoi LLC said, “this is the first time this type of medical equipment has been set up for public use. Previously, it was only available in hospitals. We are training our staff to use this equipment, improving the skills and knowledge of our employees and enabling them to provide medical emergency assistance. ZOL AED-Defibrillator equipment, manufactured by the ZOLL company, a leading US manufacturer of medical emergency equipment, is fully automatic, easy-to-operate, smart equipment”.

Setting up this equipment in the workplace will increase the opportunity to prevent deaths caused by cardiac arrest and other cardiac diseases. It offers the opportunity to provide emergency medical assistance in a timely manner and save lives. The price of each full-automatic defibrillator is 4.8 million MNT. Oyu Tolgoi financed the purchase of this equipment at a price of 76.8 million MNT.

Global mining leader Rio Tinto has set up this equipment in all its offices, mines and workplaces to help protect the lives and health of employees.

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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