Ensuring safety and wellbeing is of strategic importance to our business and is underpinned by our iCARES values.
Safety and health remain our first priority, and we are committed to our journey to eliminate fatalities and ultimately achieve zero harm, maintaining a working environment that is safe and that fosters the health and wellbeing of our employees and contractors.
Highlights from 2025
Leading indicators demonstrating risk reduction across the Group
Best year-end performance for serious injury frequency rate (SIFR)
2.19
Lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR)
3.36
Total recordable injury frequency rate (TRIFR)
3.78
per million hours worked
ISO 45001
certification across our business maintained (excludes Australian operations)
517,960
hours invested in safety and health-related training
85%
of unsafe workplaces stoppages by frontline employees
A closer look
Mining and processing activities present various hazards that can be of significant consequence to our workers.
We remain committed to cultivating a strong safety culture by making values-driven decisions and proactively identifying risks. Our goal is to eliminate workplace fatalities, as set out in our Zero harm strategic framework, and to ensure a safer workplace for all.
The Zero harm strategic framework focuses on eliminating harm by aligning three pillars: an enabling environment, empowered people, and world-class systems. It drives real risk reduction through strong critical controls, competent and engaged leadership, and globally aligned safety practices. By combining robust risk management, integrated systems, and a culture of accountability and safe behaviour, the framework aims to create a sustainable, fatality-free workplace.
The improvement in safe production over recent years can be attributed to three key actions derived from the Fatal elimination strategy: enhanced compliance with Group minimum standards (GMSs), improved effectiveness of critical controls, and the reinforcement of critical life-saving behaviours among employees.
Protecting the safety and health of our employees and stakeholders is our primary objective. Our approach to health and safety is underpinned by our iCARES values. We remain committed to eliminating fatal incidents and achieving our goal of Zero harm. Implementing critical controls and critical lifesaving behaviours is core to our safety strategy. Such interventions have been essential to the progress towards reducing the risks associated with fatal and serious injuries. We empower and encourage crew and frontline supervisors to stop work immediately should conditions be unsafe. Since 2023, and continuing into 2025, our leadership focus shifted from control implementation to behaviour and management routines. We also continue to engineer out risk through the roll out of technology and innovation where appropriate to bolster safety.
In 2025, we invested R1,052 million at our SA PGM operations (2024: R864 million), R525 million at our SA gold operations (2024: R676 million), US$1.0 million (2024: US$0.9 million) at our US Pennsylvania site, US$9 million at our US PGM operations, A$1.7 million at our AUS operations (2024:A$2.7 million), and €2.0 million (2024: €1.3 million) at our Keliber lithium project on safety management initiatives, including personal protective equipment (PPE), capital outlay, and training.
As a minimum requirement, all employees receive training on our safety standards and safe work procedures through annual refresher and induction programmes. During the year, we invested a total of 517,960 hours on safety and health-related training.
Our Fatal elimination strategy puts the emphasis on leading indicators and behaviours, rather than lagging or historical measures. It also focuses on improved reporting and recording of HPIs; this includes those incidents where there was an injury with the potential for loss of life (IPLL), and incidents where there was no injury but there was the potential for loss of life (NIPLL), i.e., near misses. Enhanced reporting of HPIs by operational teams provides a more comprehensive measure of high energy risks in our operations, promotes greater awareness of risk, and facilitates a proactive approach in risk mitigation.
Eliminating Fatal and High Energy Incidents from our operations remains our utmost priority. This requires that we identify workplace areas that have a risk for high energy incidents, that we implement controls to mitigate these risks, and that we influence the behaviour of employees and the culture of the organisation toward risk mitigation and avoidance.
Our iCARES values guide our approach to health and wellbeing. We value our employees and strive to ensure that every one of our employees feel psychologically safe and healthy. Happy, healthy, and engaged employees are essential to a company’s success. Therefore, we take reasonable measures to improve the lives and professional prospects of those who work for the Group.
We participate in the health working group of the ICMM. As mandated by the Mine Health and Safety Act (MSHA) all employees and contractors whose jobs expose them to risk undergo annual medical examination. Universal Healthcare coverage is one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2015-2030 (UN SDG 3.8) to which Sibanye- Stillwater subscribes. As of 2025, 98% of our employees in South Africa are on a medical scheme (2024: 98%). Across the Group over 98% of employee has some form of medical coverage.
Our care for employees includes:
- Occupational health resources that assess risks, determine fitness to work, and manage disease and rehabilitation
- Primary healthcare, including onsite centres and clinics staffed by doctors and nurses who manage cases at some operations
- Our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) provides confidential counselling to employees and their immediate dependents across all operations: In South Africa, services are delivered by Lyra Wellbeing through a 24/7 multilingual toll-free call centre and on-site social workers; Keliber employees access support via a dedicated Lyra call centre; US PGM employees are supported by Lyra Health; Australia and Recycling PA site operations maintain comparable EAP arrangements; and Sandouville’s services are provided through on-site occupational health support
- Emergency medical services offering 24/7 rescue capability and staffed by highly trained and experienced paramedics
- A hospital network ensuring excellent care regarding trauma, occupational injuries and diseases, as well as non-occupational medical conditions; digital tools connect employees with their preferred health providers
- Annual medical examination for employees and contractors in risk-prone occupations; non-risk workers undergo medical surveillance at least once every two years
GROUP HEALTHCARE SPEND AND COVERAGE
The table below provides detail on the Group’s investment in employee healthcare and wellbeing, and on emergency services in 2025 and 2024:
| Unit | SA1 | US2 | EU3 | AUS4 | Group | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 spend | R million | 253.82 | 568.32 | 3.64 | 0.01 | 825.78 |
| Currency | R253.82 million | US$29.6 million | €180,429 | A$521,000 | ||
| 2024 spend | R million | 227.7 | 795 | 3.4 | 5.8 | 1,031.9 |
| Currency | R277.7 million | US$43.4 million | €172,740 | A$480,200 |
- The SA operations spend for its employees includes primary healthcare, occupational healthcare, employee wellbeing, and emergency medical services
- The US operations spend includes primary care and speciality care for employees and their families: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, accidental death, dismemberment insurance, EAP, fertility treatment, family planning, and other wellbeing benefits
- In Finland and France, employee medical costs are mostly covered by the public healthcare system. The Group also offers occupational medical care and healthcare, and health insurance
- Employees in Australia have access to that country’s healthcare system, which provides excellent health services at little to no cost for citizens and permanent residents
We are committed to furthering the ‘integral wellbeing’ of our employees. By this we mean wellbeing that goes beyond basic mental and physical health, encompassing the full potential and purpose of the human personality. Among other things, this involves a commitment to
- Promote a safe and healthy working environment in pursuit of optimum productivity and preservation of human life and wealth
- Enhance our employee value proposition with a workplace culture that is holistic (integral) and that prioritises wellbeing
- Encourage employees to take responsibility for their own wellbeing
- Enable the Group to better oversee the wellbeing of employees, particularly when this impacts organisational objectives
- Reduce health and wellbeing costs
- Integral wellbeing policy include mental health
We strive to maintain the safety and health of our employees by identifying, monitoring and reducing exposure to risks that can lead to occupational disease such as heat, radiation, noise and dust; and we participate in the health working group of the ICMM, which helps increase our awareness of health-related matters in our industry.
As with safety, each region has tailored its needs-specific approach to health and wellness programmes.
References
- Media release: 27 November 2025 – Sibanye-Stillwater’s South African operations recognised for safety performance at industry awards
- Sustainability report 2025: People and prosperity
- Fact sheet: Care for iMali: Taking care of personal finance
- Policy statement: Health and safety
- Policy statement: Security
Tshiamiso Trust
The Tshiamiso Trust was set up to carry out the terms of a December 2019 settlement between six mining companies and claimants suffering from silicosis and work-related TB. The trust, worth R5 billion, was instituted in February 2020. Claimants can make use of numerous lodgement centres across various countries, and at medical centres carrying out medical benefit examinations. As one of the six companies involved, Sibanye-Stillwater helped in setting up the operating structures and claims system. To date (May 2026) R2.64 billion has been paid out, with claimants coming forward and claims being paid regularly. The website provides real-time statistics on appointments, registrations, claims lodged and claimants paid.
