COVID-19
Both the Sasa mine in North Macedonia and the Kounrad facility in Kazakhstan continue to operate, with no disruptions to production or sales to date due to COVID-19.
With COVID-19 cases in both Kazakhstan and North Macedonia, CAML has taken a significant number of steps to try to ensure the continued good health of its team members, including:
- Established a COVID-19 ‘Crisis Committee’
- Instructing staff to work from home wherever possible and enforced closure of the UK head office
- A cessation of all but essential international travel
- A cessation of all but necessary visitors to site (subject to authorisation from General Directors)
- Identification and close monitoring of team members most vulnerable to COVID-19
- The distribution of COVID-19 related PPE to employees and contractors
- The distribution of COVID-19 related PPE to community members in the town close to the Sasa mine
- Undertaken a detailed review of all activities at both operations to ensure that social distancing is at the heart of how we operate during the pandemic
- Made changes to alcohol testing at Sasa to increase social distancing
- Made changes to canteen and transport arrangements at both operations to increase social distancing
- Reinforced relevant government guidance and increased hygiene measures on both sites
- Issued instructions to employees to stay at home if they suffer from any potential COVID-19 symptoms
- Requesting employees take their temperatures before coming into work, and testing temperatures at the mine gate
- The review of critical inventory levels to support production in the case of supply disruptions
- Our top priority during this time is the welfare of our employees and contractors.