Health & Safety

Ensuring the highest standards of safety, health and security for all Timan’s employees is a major priority for the Company.

Timan operates to enssure that health & safety policies are carefully followed and the well-being of all employees is continuously monitored. The Company ensures provision of all necessary medical checks, regular health and safety training and specialised clothing and equipment.

The Company recognises the interdependence between health and safety and productivity and is fully committed to the highest standards.

Environment

Timan promotes wherever possible environmental sustainability in its working practices and seeks to minimise, mitigate or remedy, any harmful effects from the Company’s operations on the environment at each of its operational sites.

Social responsibility

Timan looks after its employees and contributes to the economies within it operates with high care.

The Company is committed to ensure stable, long-term employment that benefits local people in the communities where it operates. It is also keen to support local services and small businesses and to promote vocational and non-vocational educational programmes for Timan’s personnel.

Timan works in close partnership with the local and regional authorities to support on-going social projects and programmes.

Local Community

Timan is building enduring relationships with the communities where it operates. The Company has developed an extensive support programme for the regional centers surrounding its operations, including corporate sponsorship of cultural programmes for employees and others. The administration of the Ukhta Region in February 2005 presented Timan with an award for promoting regional culture and protecting the heritage of the Region.

In 2006, Timan sponsored Evgeniy Mazurov, Specialist of Environment Maintenance Department, to take part in the Malanin’s international folklore music competition.