Community Update

Edition 2 Winter 2022

Local Voices; we hear you

In Paraburdoo Brendan Tringrove, Business Improvement Specialist, provides COVID-19 supplies to Acting Sergeant Bhavesh Patel

Last year Rio Tinto restarted its Local Voices community survey program. Your feedback to us is making a difference. Surveys are managed by Voconiq, an independent social research company developed by CSIRO. Local Voices is a series of short online surveys designed to seek community feedback on Rio Tinto. Since August, more than 1,300 surveys have been completed with 1,000 comments received from community members across the Pilbara. All responses are confidential, and the feedback helps inform how Rio Tinto engages, partners and invests in the Pilbara, as well as address community feedback and concern. By taking part in the survey, respondents can request a donation to be made to their chosen not-for-profit community group. To date over $10,000 has been donated. If you haven’t registered for Local Voices, or would like more information on how your feedback is helping us to shape more vibrant and liveable Pilbara communities, click here to find out more.

From left: Ellie Kennington and Elaine Olsen from the Shire of Ashburton assisting at the COVID-19 Screening Facility, with Rio Tinto Administration Assistant Nannette Muir and Rio Tinto Supervisor Emergency Services David Winter

We’re collaborating to slow the spread of COVID-19 Over the last two years we have implemented a number of measures across our business to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the communities in which we operate.

COVID-19 Screening Nurse Sarah Keough and Administration Assistant Nanette Muir setting up the entry point for testing at the COVID-19 clinic in Tom Price

We have collaborated with the State Government, community organisations and individuals to overcome the challenges presented by the pandemic. Now that Western Australia’s borders are open and there are active COVID-19 cases in the community, we continue to adjust our approach. We’ve maintained a strong focus on protecting communities and vulnerable people and doing everything we can to slow the spread of COVID-19 across Western Australia. Vaccination clinics Since August 2021 we’ve worked with the Department of Health to make vaccines available to people in the Pilbara. We provided more than 6,000 vaccinations at our Pilbara clinics and 8,000 at Perth Airport since the clinics opened in September 2021. COVID-19 testing in the Pilbara With active COVID-19 cases across Western Australia, early detection has been important to slowing the spread. Some of our COVID-19 testing initiatives include:

• Requiring our entire WA workforce to complete Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs) before they fly to the Pilbara, then at a 72 hour minimum • Establishing temporary testing clinics in the Pilbara in response to outbreaks • Providing free RAT kits to families of our workers and Traditional Owners We are sharing supplies We are supporting community organisations by donating personal protective equipment (PPE) such as masks, sanitiser, wipes and Rapid Antigen Test kits to critical services such as St John Ambulance, State Emergency Service branches, volunteer bush fire brigades and daycare centres in Pannawonica, Tom Price, Wickham, Roebourne, Dampier and Karratha. Our pre-flight screening processes Particularly in the early stages of the pandemic, we maintained a strict pre-flight screening process to reduce the risk of a COVID-19 positive person boarding a plane to the Pilbara.

Eilish McNulty, Captain of the Pannawonica Volunteer Fire and Rescue Servce, receives COVID-19 supplies from Max Pollard, Pilbara Communities Advisor

Tom Price Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade Captain Wayne Hatton receiving COVID-19 PPE supplies

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