To strive for continuous improvements
NBW is about to constantly strive to identify the best way of carrying out every single duty, of acting quickly if a problem occurs or a mistake is made, and the ability to learn from what happened, are all fundamental to our philosophy. By constantly enhancing the efficiency of the way we work and reducing resource consumption, we not only boost productivity, we will also generate more interesting and challenging duties.
Projects and programmes are now taking place at the majority of our mines and smelters in order to identify and improve both operational and administrative processes at every level, using the NBW methodology. We are also working with the systematic transfer of knowledge between the units to ensure our ability to reuse good methodologies.
The aim is for NBW to be widely supported within and implemented at all of our units by 2013.
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