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2018 AHAFO DIGEST

Navigating Newmont’s acronyms mine field

Do you remember your first month on the job as a new hire? Aside When it’s raining on site, you
the excitement about landing a good job and the bragging rights that receive an email and SMS from
comes with working with a SCC on red alerts. When dealing
multi-national company and the nerves that almost every one experi- with vendors you raise PRs and
ences in trying to fit in, how did you cope with the Newmont acronyms/ SO’s. You are even invited to join
W&A, a BRG on site.

You are relieved when it all starts
to make sense. Now you can
confidently discuss your IDP with
your manager and of course you
realize it’s all worth it when you
can treat your wife or husband or
loved one to an R&R at a lovely
beach resort; thanks to your AICP.

Welcome once again to Newmont
where acronyms are a way of life.
Bet the saying “If you can’t beat
them, join them” makes more
sense now. Let’s make life
easier for our new hires through
our on-boarding process by
cutting down on the jargons so
that they will not be at sea.

jargons? You muster some courage and
It probably went down like this. If ask a colleague to break it down
you started work at Ahafo site, it for you only for him to ask you to
usually starts from the gate during cool down because if our AISC Newmont Acronyms
your induction when you are remains on target and FP projects
made aware of the importance of yield expected results, Ahafo will
wearing PPE even before you are be sustained.
aware of your JD. Then you see
H&S signage on FRM on the EIBs In a daze and wondering if you’ll
all over site. At your safety ever understand these acronyms,
meetings you hear about SPEs your boss tells you to get ready
involving LVs and what we can do for a site visit by some key
to avoid them by doing stakeholders who will be visiting
simple things such as JHA. the ECD, STP TSF and IWMF
after which they will have a close
To add to your confusion, you are out with the GM before COB.
told that there will be a town hall
with the SLT and ARLT where Amazingly, you manage to survive
KPIs will be discussed. At the all these only to get invited to a
Town Hall meeting, you realize meeting with BI and S&ER. S&S
the ELT is present. As if that is not goes on and on about IMS, MOS
bad enough, during the meeting, and updating SOPs while some
the RSVP talks about improving folks from CR and SR discuss an
our current TRIFR and goes on impending EIS.
about our EBITDA.

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