Orica gives staff power to stop work at mine sites over heritage fears
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Workers at explosives giant Orica have been permitted to stop laying charges at mine sites if they have concerns about impacting Indigenous heritage, as Rio Tinto’s destruction of the Juukan Gorge caves last year heightens caution across the industry.
Orica chief executive Sanjeev Gandhi said the blasting of the 46,000-year-old site in Western Australia’s Pilbara, which has been attributed to Rio Tinto’s failure to adequately engage with the land’s traditional owners, had prompted a reassessment of Orica’s own internal controls to help prevent such disaster happening again.