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Health & Safety Fair 2025: Two Weeks to Strengthen Safety Culture

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From May 19 to June 2, 2025, as part of World Day for Safety and Health at Work (April 28), Prony Resources organized the second edition of the Health & Safety Fair 2025, a travelling event held at the plant, the mine, and then at the Nouméa offices.

With more than 500 visitors, this edition was a major highlight for raising awareness, encouraging dialogue, and promoting prevention, fully aligned with one of the company’s core values: “Succeeding together and safely.” The event is part of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy, which places health and safety at the heart of its commitments. Prony Resources aims to provide a healthy and safe working environment while ensuring the effective management of technological and natural risks.

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An Interactive and Educational Programme

Over two weeks, employees and contractors took part in a series of workshops and activities designed to strengthen good practices and foster a lasting safety culture:

  • First Aid
    • Hand hygiene
    • Workplace well-being
    • Invisible disabilities
    • Road safety
    • Workplace health and safety quiz (“SST Challenge”)
    • Escape Game
    • Virtual Reality – road safety theme
    • Demonstration of a casualty extraction from a 100-tonne vehicle and a vehicle extrication demonstration
    • Awareness workshop: simulation course using alcohol impairment glasses
    • Scaffolding workshop
    • Challenge workshop: speed competition for putting on an evacuation hood

These workshops enabled participants to better understand risks and improve prevention practices in their daily work.

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DIPLOMA CEREMONY

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After six months of training with a tailormade program elaborated by teachers, spread between the University of New Caledonia and Prony Resources NC site, students of the first promotion of the University Degree in Metallurgy that counts 54% of women, has achieved their training and got their diplomas.

The University Degree in Metallurgy, recognized as Leaving Cert +1, has been set up in partnership with the University of New Caledonia, in order to transmit to students knowledges in physics and chemistry related to the production process. Concretely, this UD trains to the polyvalent job of process operator

At the end of the cursus, a work placement has permit to most of trainees to link the theory and the practice on the ground and better understand and anticipate their future role at Prony Resources.

Prony Resource is launching its university degree with the university of New Caledonia

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The President of Prony Resources, Béatrice Pierre, has signed on Monday the 25th of July 2022 a framework agreement with the President of UNC Mrs Catherine Ris with first immediate effect the creation of a university degree in metallurgy, with a leaving cert +1 level, preparing to the job of metallurgical process operator.

The convention between UNC and Prony Resources also opens the way for many other collaborations between the large mining and metallurgical operator of Great South and the university.

Prony Resources at the job fair

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A wide recruitment campaign is held since the end of 2021. Teams of Prony Resources were at the job fair with many offers – all jobs wanted.

Leaving cert +3 to 5, BTS, leaving cert Pro Maintenance – all kind of levels and profiles were at the rendez-vous on the stand of Prony Resources. In total, 153 applications received.