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Plot 19, Kyambogo View Road,
Ministers Village, Ntinda, Kampala
P.O.Box 195671, Kampala
Mining
Nothing is more important to us than the health, safety and well-being of our people.
Since launching Journey to Zero, we have made important strides in harmonising safety protocols across operations, investing in behavioural safety training, and elevating the visibility and accountability of safety leadership. The program is now driving alignment with global best practice, fostering a shared language of safety, and strengthening our ability to identify and mitigate risks before they materialise.
Talent is the key driving force behind the development of Wanbao mining and its business. Wanbao mining adheres to the principle of “people-oriented,” caring for the physical and mental health of employees, and improving their talents. Wanbao mining strives to develop effective communication channels, and create an equal, safe, and inclusive workplace environment. Wanbao endeavours to enhance employees’ sense of happiness and accomplishment.
The Company abides by the Labour Law of the Republic of Uganda, the Labour Contract Law of the Republic of Uganda, the Trade Union Law of the Republic of Uganda, the Law of the Republic of Uganda on the Protection of Women’s Rights and Interests and other laws and regulations, and has formulated relevant systems related to employment, salary and benefits, as well as humanistic care, employee communication, working hours and vacation management, diversity, anti-discrimination, and human rights protection. These measures are regularly reviewed and revised as appropriate to take account of recruitment conditions and relevant laws and regulations. Wanbao Mining provides equal opportunities for employees in recruitment, benefits, training, development, and promotion, adhering to the principle of equal pay for equal work and avoiding discrimination based on factors such as race, age, gender, marital status, or religious beliefs. Wanbao Mining operates a transparent and fair recruitment process, adopting a dual channel recruitment approach, both internal and external, with the aim of encouraging employee development and introducing fresh talent. In 2024, Wanbao Mining established a recruitment mechanism in collaboration with third-party agents to assist in identifying and recruiting specialised personnel, effectively improving recruitment efficiency and alleviating the demand for talented personnel.
The Company abides by the Social Insurance Law of the Republic of Uganda, Regulations on Paid Annual Leave for Employees, Regulations on the Administration of Housing Accumulation Funds and other laws and regulations. Wanbaio Mining continuously reviews and amends as appropriate payroll structures, compensation and benefits to employees to provide employees with good pay and conditions.
Wanbao Mining seeks to provide fair compensation for work undertaken taking account of employee experience, skills, and workplace environment, whilst having due regard to local pay levels. Wanbao Mining sets personal performance bonus indicators, which include safety compliance, behavioural standards, attendance, and other factors, to stimulate employees’ enthusiasm and work motivation. Wanbao Mining follows global trends concerning executive compensation incentives and industry practice so as to align compensation and incentives with Wanbao Mining’s development.
Wanbao Mining provides employees with comprehensive welfare benefits including, five insurances and one fund in accordance with PRC law, transportation to and from work, triple wages for statutory holidays, annual leave, sick leave, work-related injury leave, marriage leave, maternity leave and other compassionate leave. Wanbao Mining abides by the PRC national working hours system and implements standard working hours of 8 hours a day and no more than 40 hours a week. If overtime is required, the Company will pay overtime or give employees the right to take compensatory time off. Wanbao Mining strives to ensure employees have a balanced work life. Wanbao Mining arranges regular health checkups for employees. Wanbao Mining strives to create a safe and harmonious working environment, whilst enhancing employees’ sense of identity within the Company.
We recognises the challenges female employees may face at work and provides them with appropriate support. We follows PRC protection regulations for female employees, prohibiting the assignment of female employees to underground mining operations, high or low-temperature environments, cold-water operations, and prohibited tasks during pregnancy. Additionally, Wanbao Mining applies enhanced protection for female employees during maternity and post natal periods, implementing relevant leave regulations and ensuring they receive applicable compensation and benefits. To help female employees balance work and family, allows them to bring family members and children until the child reaches one year old. During holidays such as International Women’s Day, Wanbao Mining offers female employees a half-day leave and distributes special benefits, effectively ensuring their quality of life and mental health, demonstrating Wanbao Mining’s care for its employees.
We believes in democratic management and strives to create an equal working environment. We champions the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Human Rights Conventions, and other relevant conventions and norms of the International Labour Organisation. Wanbao follow the principles of equality and nondiscrimination. Wanbao Mining promote employees’ legal rights through internal bulletin boards, emails, training, and other means, raises awareness about human rights protection, implements human rights measures, and firmly opposes any actions that may cause human rights violations.
Wanbao explicitly prohibits the employment and use of child labour, opposes any form of forced labour, and requires suppliers to adhere to the same employment standards. Should any child labour be discovered, Wanbao Mining will immediately stop the work of child labourers, provide them with comprehensive health checks, notify the relevant departments, and rectify the internal recruitment process to prevent the reoccurrence of child labour. We provides human rights protection training for every new employee, covering fair treatment, respect for the individual, employee safety and health, opposition to forced labour, prohibition of child labour, and the implementation of non-discriminatory employment policies regarding gender, ethnicity, belief, and age. Wanbao Mining require employees to follow the Company’s prescribed exit procedures when resigning, allowing them to freely submit their resignation and preventing coercion through violence, threats, or illegal restrictions on personal freedom.
Wanbao Mining and Engineering company recognizes that employee development is crucial for maintaining a competitive advantage and driving innovation within the Company. Wanbao Mining is committed to providing employees with diverse career development opportunities, career advancement and promotion. Wanbao Mining regularly conducts job assessments and market surveys to ensure that employees’ development paths align with market demand. Through various communication channels, Wanbao Mining gathers feedback on employees’ job satisfaction. Through regular assessments Wanbao Mining considers employees abilities and performance, makes appropriate promotions and transfers, offering opportunities for advancement or salary incentives to employees with good work attitude, quality, and abilities. Wanbao Mining operates a job rotation system to ensure that new and existing employees are matched with positions suited to their personal development and potential.
We recognize that the development of employees skills is essential to the development of the Company’s business and its efficient running. Wanbao Mining and Engineering company has created targeted training plans that align corporate development with employees’ personal development goals and job responsibilities. Wanbao Mining continues to provide onboarding training for new employees, covering corporate culture, company policies, and occupational health and safety, to help them better understand their job responsibilities so as to integrate them into Wanbao Mining’s culture and work environment. Wanbao Mining and Engineering company has established partnerships with professional skill training schools to cultivate specialised skills for employees in certain job functions. To achieve safety production goals, Wanbao Mining and Engineering company runs training programs based on PRC national requirements and site conditions, focusing on safety production and conducting training around various performance indictors, setting performance bonuses to motivate employees’ development and enhance their skills and enthusiasm.
Wanbao Mining prioritises employee safety and health in its operations and strictly abides by the Law of the Republic of Uganda on the Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases, Measures for the Supervision and Administration of Employers’ Occupational Health Surveillance, and other laws and regulations. Wanbao Mining regulates operational procedures in accordance with these requirements, providing employees with good working conditions and health protection measures, ensuring a safe and healthy work environment.
Wanbao Mining continuously assesses disease risks and takes appropriate measures to mitigate any such risk. Wanbao Mining engages qualified third-parties to develop and update the Implementation Plan for the Identification and Rectification of Hazards of Occupational Hazards for the Company to detect and assess workplace occupational hazards, identify the severity of these hazards, and take appropriate preventive measures. Wanbao Mining offers pre-employment, in-service, and post-employment health checks, provides medical insurance, critical illness insurance, and health insurance. Wanbao Mining informs employees of the occupational disease risks associated with their roles, raising their awareness of proactive prevention. Throughout their employment, Wanbao Mining periodically informs employees in writing about the potential occupational hazards of their positions, ensuring they remain vigilant. Wanbao Mining cooperates with local hospitals to arrange annual health checkups and disease screenings for employees, enhancing monitoring of their health and preventing diseases.
Wanbao Mining and Engineering company also recognizes the importance of employees’ mental health. Through various communication channels Wanbao Mining and Engineering company seeks to promptly understand employee workrelated needs and challenges, assess their psychological state, and provide psychological counselling. This helps employees maintain a positive and optimistic mindset.
Wanbao Mining and Engineering company displays hazard warning labels in prominent areas and uses bulletin boards to spread safety messages, continually reinforcing health education and enhancing employees’ safety awareness. All personnel entering the plant are provided with protective gear such as helmets, protective eye wear, and earplugs. Special protective equipment such as rubber boots, felt socks and mining lamps, are also provided to workers in specific roles. Relevant employees are required to master the use and maintenance of health protection equipment and personal protective gear, understand the properties, health hazards, equipment operation, and potential dangers of materials, and regularly participate in fire drills and emergency exercises to ensure they are prepared to handle emergencies effectively.
With mining being the core of Wanbao Mining and Engineering company’s business, safety is paramount to Wanbao Mining and Engineering company’s operations. Accordingly, Wanbao Mining and Engineering company strictly abides by the Work Safety Law of the Republic of Uganda, the Mine Safety Law of the Republic of Uganda and other laws and regulations. Wanbao Mining and Engineering company adheres to the safety production principle of “safety first, focusing on prevention and integrated control”.
Wanbao Mining places great importance on the establishment of safety production systems and continually seeks to improve safety procedures, including the Safety Production Responsibility System, Safety Production Rules and Regulations, and Safety Production Operating Procedures. Wanbao Mining engages professional institutions to review and audit compliance and applicability of these regulations. In 2024, Wanbao Mining established and revised 106 safety production rules and regulations, and 159 safety operation procedures. Wanbao Mining requires all employees to be familiar with the content of safety regulations and understand their responsibilities. Wanbao Mining also promotes the “Golden Rules to Ensure Life Safety”, emphasizing the prevention of safety accidents and maintaining standardised and regulated safety management practices, ensuring that “safety production is everyone’s responsibility, and everyone knows their responsibility”.
With mining continuously seeks to improve its safety management structure. In 2025, Wanbao Mining updated and adjusted the Safety Production Management Committee (hereinafter the “Safety Committee”) reflecting latest production and operational needs. Wanbao Mining’s Operations Manager serves as the director of the Safety Committee, while the Deputy Operations Manager and Safety Director are appointed as deputy directors. Heads of departments and key contractors are members of this committee and are made responsible for overseeing safety production work. The Safety Committee has a dedicated office led by the Safety Director, who also serves as the Office Director, ensuring the committee’s daily operations are handled effectively. A dedicated safety production management department is also established, staffed with a sufficient number of safety management personnel, all of whom have received training from the relevant government authorities and hold certificates, ensuring they have the necessary expertise in safety management.
Wanbao Mining continues to strengthen requirements for on-site safety inspections, implementing a “horizontal to the edge, vertical to the bottom” approach, which establishes a safety production responsibility system across all levels. Wanbao Mining clearly defines the safety responsibilities for each role across all levels from the Operations Manager to front line workers, and undertakes safety performance assessments. All employees are required to sign safety production responsibility agreements, ensuring continuous communication of the Company’s safety philosophy, policies, regulations, and methodologies.
We formulate an Annual Work Safety Plan at the beginning of each year, which specifies the annual work safety objectives. Wanbao Mining assesses potential risks, sets job safety protocols and countermeasures, holds safety meetings and conducts regular and special inspections. For high-risk positions, employees are required to conduct a “Job Safety Analysis” (JSA) before starting work and make a risk assessment prior to commencing any task. Wanbao Mining conductes four quarterly safety production inspections, 12 leadership comprehensive safety inspections, and over 280 safety inspections in areas including processing, mining, south ventilation shaft, various workshops, bases and warehouses. Wanbao Mining also completed nearly 70 specialised safety inspections. All identified safety hazards during these inspections have been addressed and closed.
Wanbao Mining continuously reviews and revises its emergency management protocols for any accidents to comply with relevant laws, regulations, and system documents such as Measures for the Administration of Contingency Plans for Work Safety Accidents, the Guidelines for enterprises to develop emergency response plan for work place accidents, Wanbao Mining revised its Emergency Plan for Production Safety Accidents and the Special Emergency Plan for Tailings Dam, Underground and Processing Plant based on risk identification assessments. After expert reviews, these revised plans were promptly filed with the relevant departments and notified to all relevant personnel to ensure that emergency rescue actions can be carried out promptly and effectively.
Wanbao Mining continues to strengthen safety education for its employees. At the beginning of each year Wanbao Mining prepares and implements a safety education and training plan. Various forms of safety education and training are then organised, with mining safety experts to conduct multiple training sessions and assessments. The training content covers topics such as enhancing safety leadership, identifying safety hazards, and preventive measures, aimed at improving overall safety awareness. Wanbao Mining conducted several safety exercises, including tailings dam flood prevention drills, underground fire escape drills, and underground poisoning and suffocation accident response drills, to enhance the risk awareness and rescue capabilities of all operational personnel.
Wanbao Mining follows the Interim Measures for Safety Management of Outsourcing Projects in Non-Coal Mines Safety, the Strengthening Safety Management of Outsourcing Projects in Metal and Non-metal Underground Mines and other management measures. Wanbao Mining has formulated the Foreign Construction Team Management System, the Construction Project Safety Management System, and the Contractor Assessment Management System, ensuring contractors are managed in the same manner and comply with the same protocols as employees regarding health and safety. This includes unified management in areas such as administration, training, inspection, assessment, and rewards/punishments (“five unifications”). Wanbao Mining examines contractors’ qualifications to ensure they meet the necessary professional standards and sign Work Safety Management Agreements with contractors to clarify the safety responsibilities of all parties.
We integrate contractor employees into its safety goals and education programs, including a three-level safety education training and annual safety re-training programme. Wanbao Mining conducts regular safety inspections and assessments of contractors, identifies potential risks, and demands corrective actions. Violations are penalised to strengthen safety management. In October 2024, a haulage contractor’s employee was tragically killed when waste was discharged from a tailings chute. Wanbao Mining immediately instigated rescue operations but was unable to save the injured contractor employee. Wanbao Mining promptly reported the incident to the local authorities, suspended all mining activities, and carried out an enhanced safety investigation to identify safety failings and to rectify these.
During the suspension of operations, we conducted a thorough analysis of the cause of the accident and organised special safety risk identification and assessment activities. We conducted safety hazard inspections and corrective actions in specific areas on-site, and Wanbao Mining reassessed and improved the organisational structure to enhance safety management levels. To further strengthen safety awareness and reduce the likelihood of accidents, Wanbao Mining simultaneously carried out training for all departments and the safety department. Wanbao Mining invited external experts to provide safety education training for all staff, with a 100% pass rate on exams.
We maintains a responsible attitude towards product quality, abiding by the Product Quality Law of the Republic of Uganda and other laws and regulations, to enhance product quality, optimise production processes, undertake digital construction and scientific research innovation, and undertake monitoring measures to ensure that the grade and moisture content of the concentrates meet customer expectations, and produce high-quality and qualified lead and zinc concentrates.
Wanbao Mining focuses on the quality of the concentrate it produces. After ore is mined it is fed to the mill for processing which includes crushing, milling, lead flotation, zinc flotation, lead concentrate dewatering, and zinc concentrate dewatering. Appropriate equipment for each process step has been installed taking due account of the characteristics of the ore, and latest mineral processing technology. Processes are continuously monitored to optimise production to ensure quality concentrates as efficiently as possible.
Wanbao Mining performs detailed tests and analysis in the flotation circuits using automatic samplers to identify and rectify any issues during flotation and ensure recovery rates are maximised. Supplement manual samples are taken at key points in the flotation process to ensure the integrity of critical data. After immediate analysis of the samples, feedback is given to the operators to adjust the operating parameters and maintain the stability of flotation process and maximise recovery rates. In 2025, Wanbao Mining further reviewed zinc circuit processes to reduce the loss of zinc metal and improve the recovery rate and stability of the zinc circuit. Wanbao Mining engages professional third parties to review ore processing to maximise recovery rates and improve efficiencies.
A two-stage dewatering process, combining thickener and ceramic filters, to extract water to produce concentrates with a moisture content of some 10%. Lead and precious metals in concentrate are bagged for security and customer requirements.
Equipment is regularly inspected and maintained with shut downs planned to maintain the operational efficiency of the plant and equipment. In 2024, Wanbao Mining instigated a plant automation project, with a view to introducing advanced automation equipment.
Wanbao Mining is committed to intellectual property protection, integrating intellectual property management into all activities. Wanbao Mining complies with all regulations concerning intellectual property rights and data protection. We prohibit employees from engaging in any activities that may infringe upon other persons or entities confidentiality or intellectual property rights.
Computer aided systems play a key role in mining operations and development. The use of computer aided tools are critical in the planning and construction of a mine and management of operations thereafter, enhancing efficiencies, product quality, safety and environmental management. Wanbao Mining continually invests in research and development to support sustainable development, and market competitiveness. Wanbao Mining investigates innovative technologies, engages and cooperates with third parties to stimulate innovation. Wanbao Mining has formed talented technical teams for scientific and technological research. Wanbao Mining continues to provide funding to support technology innovation.
Wanbao Mining constantly seeks improvements in mining technologies introducing advanced digital software and tools, upgrading digital systems such as automated control systems, automated mine systems, and unmanned mine equipment. Wanbao Mining utilises 3D computer modeling of resource reserves, and resource management. Wanbao Mining investigates and uses digital technologies to modernise traditional production methods, including management of detonators and explosives. Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) control systems are used in crushing and grinding. Technologies used by Wanbao Mining include:
Wanbao Mining continues to promote industry-universityresearch cooperation, maintaining collaboration with tertiary institutions to improve the quality of wet sprayed retaining walls and mixing stations. Wanbao Mining further co-operated with partners to increased production and carried out exchanges to study ways to improve filling efficiency.
Wanbao Mining adheres to the principle of “promoting cooperation, mutual benefit”, and strives to improve product quality and after-sales service. Wanbao Mining monitors any complaints regarding its products to resolve any product related issues and protect customer rights and interests. Any post sale issue will arise from the grade of metals in concentrate and moisture content. The concentrates are assayed by both Wanbao Mining and the customer and by third party laboratories to resolve any discrepancies.
Wanbao Mining abides by the Personal Information Protection Law of Republic of Uganda, the Cybersecurity Law of the Republic of Uganda and other laws and regulations. Wanbao Mining ensures all customer information is kept confidential. Wanbao Mining only collects and retains information on business partners and customers necessary for the related business activities. Wanbao Mining designates specific personnel to be responsible for the management and encryption of customer files, minimising the risk of leaking confidential or sensitive information. Wanbao Mining arranges training for employees on information confidentiality management and has established a penalty mechanism to strictly prevent the occurrence of customer privacy leakage.
Wanbao Mining continually seeks to improve standards, whilst minimising environmental and social risks. Wanbao Mining communicates through various channels sharing information to assist to enhance their awareness of environmental and social risks.
Wanbao Mining actively monitors updates in policies, laws and regulations to manage the environmental and social risks that works may face. Wanbao Mining has established an evaluation system covering environmental management, labour rights, business ethics and other relevant areas, and regularly collects information on workers to evaluate their performance. Wanbao Mining contractually requires workers to abide by the latest national and local laws and regulations to ensure transportation safety and vehicle emission compliance. Wanbao Mining gives priority to partners with quality management, environmental management and occupational health and safety management qualifications. The equipment required to meet the emission standard of the Limits and Measurement Methods for Exhaust Pollutants from Diesel Engines of Machinery
