BHP Group Ltd. chief executive Mike Henry said the world’s biggest miner still has “some ways to go” to create a safe environment for all female employees after the company recently saw a 20% increase in reported sexual harassment.
The company, which this year completed a A$300 million project to make its mining villages in Western Australia safer by adding extra CCTV cameras, security lighting, doors and fences, has disclosed cases of sexual harassment reported and established in the 12 months to June rose to 124 from 103 the year before. About a quarter of the 475 reports of harassment were substantiated, the company reported.
Of the 167 cases substantiated in the year to June, including cases reported in the prior period, 165 people responsible for the conduct were either fired or removed from site if they were a contractor, or resigned. “And we won’t be satisfied until this behavior has disappeared from from BHP, just like on other safety-related incidents,” Henry said.
Henry said the public disclosure around instances of sexual harassment itself signals a cultural change at the miner, where the percentage of female employees has doubled to 35.2% since 2016, when it set a gender parity target. Since then, the miner has “become a higher performing company, safer, more productive, both in absolute terms but also in relative terms to the competition and executing better on strategy,” Henry said.
Women now make up half of BHP’s executive leadership team. It aims for the overall workforce to be 40:40 by 2025 — a corporate target that means the company wants 40% women, 40% men and 20% any gender.
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