Strong Foundation for Growth, Decarbonisation and Shareholder Returns
Building sustained
operating improvement
Safety always our priority
Best
operator
Impeccable
ESG
credentials
Excel in
development
Social licence
Rio Tinto Safe Production System initiated at five pilot sites focusing on sustainably unlocking
capacity across the system and improving production rates
We are already seeing returns in the first year of rollout* including a significant improvement at the
Kennecott concentrator since the July deployment compared to the previous 12 months performance
A significantly larger programme is planned for 2022, subject to COVID-19 constraints, focused on
highest-value deployments with the RTSPS rollout of up to 30 deployments at 15 sites as well as up to
80 rapid improvement (Kaizen) projects which aim at improving targeted bottlenecks
Examples of initiatives in 2022 include: Pilbara: increasing plant throughput, reducing wait for feed at
primary crushers, reduction in material handling losses. Aluminium: improved productivity at the
smelter pots, improved flow rates, energy efficiency, optimised caustic consumption at refineries
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*See Appendix for further details (slides 33-34)
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