Who is BHP?

BHP is the world’s leading diversified resources company and the largest by revenue.

BHP is a world-leading resources company. We extract and process minerals, oil and gas, with more than 80,000 employees and contractors, primarily in Australia and the Americas. Our products are sold worldwide, with sales and marketing led through Singapore and Houston, United States. Our global headquarters are in Melbourne, Australia. WIL&P specifically is responsible for the inbound delivery of consumable materials to our assets globally. The primary in country delivery mode used as a part of this global network is road but we leverage all modes including road, rail, air and sea.

Our corporate purpose is to bring people and resources together to build a better world. We do this through our strategy: to have the best capabilities, best commodities and best assets, to create long-term value and high returns. We are among the world’s top producers of major commodities, including iron ore, metallurgical coal and copper. We also have substantial interests in oil, gas and energy coal.

Our highest priority is the safety of our operations, including our workforce and the communities in which we operate. BHP’s Charter value of Sustainability articulates safety as a fundamental element in the way we conduct our business. The safety of our people and the communities in which we operate must always come first. At BHP, we have a structured Risk Management Program which assesses various business risks (including Road Safety Event) and defines controls to mitigate any impact.

What does road safety mean to BHP?

As a corporate citizen that prides itself on being a sustainable and socially responsible business, BHP regards the safety of its employees and contractors as paramount. Its Charter outlines corporate values of: Sustainability, Integrity, Respect, Performance, Simplicity and Accountability. Simplicity in Action is defined as ‘focusing our efforts on the things that matter most’.

With a large fleet of light vehicles, thousands of contractor light vehicles onsite, and both sharing challenging road conditions with heavy trucks and machinery.

Within the Australian region we have 5 major assets, comprising of a number of operations. The estimated employee light vehicle fleet size is in excess of 2500 vehicles. This does not include contractor’s vehicles which would possibly be excess of this number of vehicles.

BHP introduced a global 5 NCAP policy for light vehicles which operated on its sites. The policy is being introduced in a phased approach.

  • From 1 May 2012, new light vehicles purchased or leased by BHP must be 5 star NCAP rated or equivalent, except those dedicated and modified for underground use.
  • By 2016 all light vehicles operated above ground by the company or used by contractors on BHP sites must be 5 star NCAP. A new performance requirement also prohibits the installation of aftermarket equipment to 5 Star NCAP vehicles that is not purpose made for the vehicle by the vehicle manufacturer.

BHP's Contributions to the NRSPP & Points of Contact

  • Steering Committee Partners
  • Founding Partners
  • Working Group - B2B Safer Vehicles are Better Business
  • High Occupancy Vehicle
  • Brad McArdlePrincipal Global Transport Strategy

    BHP is recognised as a Founding Steering Committee Partner to the present

    What are BHP’s NRSPP road safety commitments?

    As a part of this year’s Steering Committee nomination BHP are seeking to actively re-engage and support the strategic direction of the program. Through my role as the global road transport SME within BHP and our global partnerships with third party logistics providers, I have the unique capability to provide insights to common global issues relating to road safety. I am also able to connect and share insights relating to BHPs Material Risk program particularly as it relates to Heavy Vehicles with my subset internal role as Global Risk Owner for Road Freight Event. One of the core mandates of my current role with BHP is to improve the safety outcomes of our road transport operations globally. The key part of achieving this outcome is to be actively involved all areas of that operating environment. More specifically for us is the focus on how we influence better road safety culture with those elements that we cannot directly control, such as the broader road user community. I see my role on the steering committee of the NRSPP as being one where we are able to not only help BHP achieve one of its core values but we are able to more broadly shape the entire road safety ecosystem in Australia for a safer future.

    • The ongoing actions of BHP include:
      • Develop case study on the practicalities of a 5 Star NCAP Policy
      • Develop framework for high occupancy vehicles operations
      • Support the High Occupancy Vehicle Working Group

    Supporting actions delivered by BHP

    • BHP Billiton hosted the second NRSPP Steering Committee Meeting in Sydney in June 2012
    • Established the development of the NRSPP 5 Star ANCAP Working Group and the development of the NRSPP Policy Paper: Guide to the Development of a Safe Vehicle Purchasing Policy
    • BHP hosted the 16th Steering Committee meeting in Melbourne on 24 May 2018. As part of the meeting, the top three student teams from Re:act presented their campaigns.
    • Established the High Occupancy Vehicle Working Group and hosted the kick off meeting in Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane offices on the 24 May 2018.
    • Shared their HOV bow tie and related data with NRSPP to analyse the related risk.
    • BHP were willing to invest $25,ooo in the HOV research to understand the problem, sadly only Rio Tinto was willing to invest and other partners were not.
  • David Jenkins - DepartedGlobal Vic-President of Safety

    BHP is recognised as one of the Founding Partners of NRSPP with David Jenkins kindly helping design and build the foundational elements of the program during its establishment phase.

    BHP hosted the second meeting of NRSPP at its office in Sydney in June 2012. A key contribution of BHP through David Jenkins was that NRSPP needs to be industry led and data focused with regards to its working groups.

    BHP was a first mover during this period for introducing a 5 star global NCAP policy which formed the basis for NRSPP’s own safer vehicle purchasing policy.

    NRSPP wishes to recognise the contributions of BHP for helping develop the program.

    David departed the role in 2015.

  • David Jenkins - DepartedGlobal Vic-President of Safety

    David Jenkins was kind enough to assist in guiding the development of the NRSPP Policy Paper: Guide to the Development of a Safe Vehicle Purchasing Policy which is promoted by the NRSPP Business-to-Business Video developed by IAG for NRSPP.

    NRSPP B2B Video: Safer Vehicles are Better Business

  • Anton FoucheSuperintendent Safety Analysis and Improvement

    BHP kindly supplied their organisational data relating to High Occupancies Vehicles which helped provide insights in relation to understanding the type of incidents and claims these vehicles have been involved in and trends over time. Their HOV activities include:

    • Established the High Occupancy Vehicle Working Group and hosted the kick off meeting in Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane offices on the 24 May 2018.
    • Shared their HOV bow tie and related data with NRSPP to analyse the related risk.
    • BHP were willing to invest $25,ooo in the HOV research to understand the problem, sadly only Rio Tinto was willing to invest and other partners were not.

    The HOV working group was placed in Maintenance mode when only two partners with these vehicles were willing to participate in potential research projects to understand the risk and develop solutions.