Freeport Implements Safety Culture for Sustainable Safe Production
26 February 2025
Tembagapura, February 25th, 2025 - Executive Vice President of Site Operations/Technical Mine Manager at PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) Carl Tauran emphasized that Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) culture must be practiced by all workers without exception, anywhere and anytime, in order to achieve sustainable safe production.
“All employees and company partners have worked hard to collaborate in implementing that the K3 culture can be implemented in work and daily life. Not limited to the momentum of the K3 month, each of us must have full awareness of occupational safety and health for ourselves, colleagues, and others, anytime and anywhere,” said Carl during the closing ceremony of the 2025 National Occupational Health and Safety Month (BK3N) in Tembagapura, Sunday (23/2).
The effort to establish an OHS culture, Carl continued, is carried out through several steps. Not only through ceremonial BK3N commemorations, but also through internal meetings involving crew chiefs and field crews to openly discuss the obstacles and challenges they face in work areas related to OHS.
“We strive to create safe working conditions by involving all employee lines in scheduled active discussions. Work groups that include management, group leaders, and frontline workers, are also involved in OHS inspections and contribute ideas, concepts, and initiatives that can be implemented to improve work safety,” Carl explained.
He called on thousands of employees in PTFI's operational area in the Highlands who attended the main event of BK3N 2025 at Tembagapura Sporthall to implement a safety culture for achieving sustainable safe production.
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The Chairman of the PTFI BK3N 2025 Committee, Catur Budiyanto, said that the commemoration of 2025 BK3N at PTFI has been ongoing since January 10, 2025 and concluded with the Safety Expo main event on Saturday-Sunday (2/22-23).
“The Safety Expo is a showcase for OHS initiatives carried out by each division at PTFI and presented in the form of exhibition booths. PTFI management, acting as a judges, will determine the best OHS initiatives that may potentially be implemented throughout PTFI's operational areas,” said Catur.
By presenting the Safety Expo with the theme “Management of Human and Mobile Equipment Interaction through Innovation to Improve Mining Safety,” Catur hopes that the end of the OHS month commemoration series can increase the participation of all PTFI employees in every proactive effort to identify potential occupational risks before problems occur.
The commemoration of 2025 BK3N at PTFI has been successfully held across PTFI operational areas from the Highlands to the Lowlands with a total of 49 campaigns from 13 different types of campaigns and 15 competitions. All activities refer to three programs: Strategic, Promotional and Implementation Programs.
“These include safety programs related to the interaction between mobile equipment and workers, safety initiatives from each division, safety campaigns, Occupational Disease Prevention campaigns, educational seminars, including Women’s Health Awareness to provide information on specific health issues for female workers,” said Catur who also serves as Grasberg Block Cave (GBC) Production Manager PTFI.
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