People
Staffing
Today, we have the highest number of female employees in Chile’s mining industry. Of the 15,831 people working at Codelco, 2,804 are women (17.7%). Of those hired in 2024, 46% were women.
At Codelco, we employ nearly 16,000 in-house workers and nearly 60,000 collaborators engaged in operational and service tasks.
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Equality policy
Codelco has a Corporate Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Policy, approved in 2021, along with a D&I Strategy for 2020-2024.
To achieve our goals, we have defined the following key enablers: (i) the attraction, development and retention of talent (so that Codelco is the company where women in Chile want to work); (ii) promote and deepen transformation for a work culture and environment that support greater female integration; and (iii) adaptwork centre hygiene and infrastructure to reflect an increase in female representation.
Health, safety and well-being at work
Our efforts are focused on creating a safe and healthy workenvironment for all our workers.
During 2024, we progressed on the next stage of our Health, Safety and Welfare Strategy, with the purpose of eradicating fatalities and serious illness in a sustainable way. This phase builds on previous lessons learned and focuses on five key pillars:
Subcontracting policy
We develop our business through collaborative relationships with several companies that provide goods and services through their human capital, knowledge and experience.
Our contractual policy requires strict compliance with legal and regulatory frameworks, both for national and international standards. Thus, registration in the supplier registry entails validations of online sources and documentation review that allows the companies to be evaluated based on the six aspects indicated below.
