St Barbara Limited (SBM) Q3 2021 Earnings Call

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Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us in St Barbara's March 2021 quarterly briefing. On the call with me today is the executive team from St Barbara, along with Lucas Welsh, our Chief Transformation Officer, and David Cottrell, Manager, Investor Relations. At this point, I'd like to draw your attention to page two and encourage a reading by standard disclaimer. As always at this point on slide three, I would like to begin by recognising our traditional owners and people of the lands in which St Barbara operate in Australia, Canada, Papua New Guinea and pay my respects to elders of past, present and emerging. Now turning to slide five. Slide five outlines our five core commitments related to St Barbara operating safely and sustainably. Of note, St Barbara became the signatory of the United Nations Women's Empowerment Principles. We also realised and released our modern statement. With the ongoing global challenge of COVID-19, it was pleasing to learn that 93% of our employees believe that COVID-19 is being managed well by the company. On slide six, we have had five recordable injuries for this quarter, most of low severity. Importantly, we recorded zero injuries in March, which was a high production month for us in quarter. This demonstrates our goal of zero harm is possible. Priority areas of focus during the March quarter were whole of business focus on care, which stands for control, action, respect and engage. Safely transitioning to a new underground mining contractor at Gwalior has also been a key focus of ours. Although in comparison to our peers, we are certainly doing well, we still have a journey to travel and reach zero harm or zero life-changing injuries. In terms of COVID-19 on slide seven, the COVID-19 situation in PNG deteriorated in the ...