Sustainable Development / Health and Safety
As a Global Union Federation with many members in some of the most hazardous and resource intense industries in the world, the ICEM takes its responsibilities very seriously. This is why the ICEM's health, safety and environmental work is grounded in a firm commitment to the greater sustainability of the companies employing our members.
Corporate Social Responsibilty (CSR) and corporate governance (CG) are frequently cited as appropriate indicators of a company's performance, and for this reason the ICEM insists that health, safety and environmental excellence must be among the key parameters on which company CSR and CG performance are judged. This is why the ICEM is committed to the creation and maintenance of healthy and safe workplaces in all of its industrial sectors, and to fully engage employers to this end.
The ICEM is developing a policy on Sustainable Development. For the Powerpoint presented at the initial February 2008 meeting of the Working Group that is developing this policy, click here.
 UK’s Health, Safety Executive Issues Warning on Offshore Hydrocarbon Releases |
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25 August 2008 United Kingdom Norway ICEM InBrief  |
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) of the UK has issued a cautionary warning on the number of hydrocarbon releases in the offshore oil and gas industries. Such releases are considered precursors for major accidents.
The concern comes just five weeks after British trade unions and civil society commemorated the 20-year anniversary of the deadly Piper Alpha offshore disaster, in which 167 oil... Read the article |
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| NUM Protests Rash of AngloGold, AngloPlats Mine Deaths in South Africa |
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25 August 2008 South Africa ICEM InBrief  |
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in South Africa has hit hard on four deaths within a week at AngloGold and AngloPlatinum, pivotal proof that the country is in need of rigid safety regulations that hopefully will become law late this year.
During a week spanning 12 August to 17 August, safety performances by both AngloGold and AngloPlats sunk at the same time the Chamber of Mines lobbied...Read the article |
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| CFMEU Forces Woolworths Hand on Sustainable Forest Products |
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11 August 2008 Australia ICEM InBrief  |
Strategic, year-long pressure by the Pulp and Paper Workers’ Branch of Australian ICEM affiliate Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union (CFMEU) appears to have severed a supply contract between retail grocery chain Woolworths and Indonesian-based Asia Pulp and Paper (APP). The supply arrangement was for kitchen towels and tissue products.
The pressure, countering Woolworth’s...Read the article |
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| Finland’s Electrical Workers’ Union Wants Utility Pole Creosote Use to End | ||
11 August 2008 |
Finland |
ICEM InBrief |
| ICEM Holds Quadrennial Mining Conference in Russia | ||
28 July 2008 |
Global |
ICEM InBrief |
| Colombia Dam Disaster of 28 July 1983: ‘The Night the Lights Went Dark’ on 200 Casual Workers | ||
28 July 2008 |
Colombia |
ICEM InBrief |
| Drummond Coal Mine Strike Ends in Colombia; Accord Also Reached with Glencore | ||
28 July 2008 |
Colombia |
ICEM InBrief |
| NUM Files Strike Notice on 3 South Africa Mining Houses; Safety Strike Looms at Gold Fields | ||
14 July 2008 |
South Africa |
ICEM InBrief |
| Mine Deaths Accelerate in China Over the Past Month | ||
14 July 2008 |
China |
ICEM InBrief |
| CFMEU Presses Australian Government to Stick to Renewable Energy Targets | ||
30 June 2008 |
Australia |
ICEM InBrief |
| Unions Mount Pressure on Cause of Asbestos inside Spanish Michelin Plant | ||
30 June 2008 |
Spain |
ICEM InBrief |
| Nigeria’s PENGASSAN Threatens Strike Action Against Shell over Unilateral Job Cuts | ||
16 June 2008 |
Nigeria |
ICEM InBrief |
| ICEM’s Africa Delegates Attend Relevant China Investment Forum | ||
16 June 2008 |
China Ghana |
ICEM InBrief |
| 12 Dead, 24 Rescued in Last Week’s Coal Mine Explosion in Eastern Ukraine | ||
16 June 2008 |
Ukraine |
ICEM InBrief |
| ICEM Teams with Labour Groups to Condemn Iraq’s Trade Union Abuses at ILO | ||
16 June 2008 |
Iraq |
ICEM InBrief |
| ICEM’s Sub-Sahara Africa Conference Adopts Four-Point Work Plan | ||
16 June 2008 |
Ghana |
ICEM InBrief |
| ICEM Expresses Concern over Latest Ukrainian Coal Mine Blast | ||
9 June 2008 |
Ukraine |
ICEM News release |
| ICEM Letter To Ukrainian PRUPU Union on 8 June Mine Tragedy | ||
9 June 2008 |
Ukraine |
ICEM Background Document |
| ‘Fair and Just Globalization’ Workshops Organised by IF Metall in Sweden | ||
2 June 2008 |
Sweden Global |
ICEM InBrief |
| ICEM Forefront at Turkey's Hard Coal Conference | ||
2 June 2008 |
Turkey |
ICEM InBrief |
