Podcasts
Prioritising Health and Safety | Mining Indaba Insights 2025
Panellists
Assheton Carter
Executive Chair and Founder
Paule France Ndessomin
Regional Secretary | IndustriALL Global Union
Penny Munkawa
Occupational Health and Safety Specialist | International Labour Organisation
Dr Thuthula Balfour
Head – Health & Lead on Women in Mining | Minerals Council South Africa
Georgette Barnes Sakyi-Addo
President | Women in Mining, Ghana
Key topics
In this episode, TDi’s CEO Assheton Stewart Carter talks to four representatives from different parts of the mining industry, who all spoke at the 2025 Mining Indaba in Cape Town, on prioritising health and safety.
The panelists are:
- Dr Thuthula Balfour, Head – Health and the Lead on Women in Mining, Minerals Council, South Africa
- Georgette Barnes Sakyi-Addo, President, Women in Mining, Ghana
- Paule France Ndessomin, Regional Secretary, IndustriALL Global Union
- Penny Munkawa , Occupational Health and Safety Specialist, International Labour Organisation (ILO)
The speakers discuss whether zero harm is a reality, some of the hidden costs of safety neglect and how the needs of African mining communities are being, and can be prioritised.
