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B2Gold is a responsible international senior gold producer headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. Founded in 2007, today, B2Gold has operating gold mines in Canada, Mali, Namibia and the Philippines, and numerous development and exploration projects in various countries.

Position

Director, Health & Safety

Introduction

Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Operations & Chief Operating Officer, this position oversees B2Gold’s corporate occupational health and safety function, as well as providing expertise and guidance to all B2Gold’s site operations to ensure consistent health and safety standards are established and adhered to.

Location

This is a full time position based at B2Gold’s Corporate Office in Vancouver, Canada. The role follows our hybrid work model of four days in-office and one day remote each week.

Duties & Responsibilities:

- Oversee the Corporate occupational health and safety function including establishing Policies and Standards, establishing Directives and Guidance, setting Objectives and Targets, and developing systems and measures that appropriately assess functional performance;
- Ensure critical permits are maintained and complied with by all operations;
- Provide input into the development of corporate, regional and site procedures/practices:
- Standardize procedures/practices across the organization as needed;
- Establish and maintain the Corporate Crisis Management Plan and coordinate crisis management exercises;
- Respond to requests and provide guidance and advice across the organization/function;
- Provide expertise, guidance, mentoring,



development and advisory services to all sites within B2Gold in all disciplines associated with occupational health and safety management:
- Assist regional and site personnel in implementing occupational health and safety programs;
- Advise and assist site management in the development of hazard control methods and techniques consistent with B2Gold occupational health and safety requirements;
- Oversee the implementation and quality control of competency-based training systems at B2Gold sites;
- Oversee accident investigation process to ensure an effective root cause analysis system is maintained at each operation. Collect data, analyze trends and communicate across the organization the common reasons why accidents are occurring, including overseeing the implementation of corrective actions at all B2Gold sites relating to findings from accident/incident investigations for extreme risk events at any B2Gold site;
- Ensure management system software is utilized effectively at B2Gold operating sites, including training site personnel in its use and approving and implementing software modifications/updates;
- Oversee accident/incident investigations for fatalities and extreme risk events at B2Gold sites;
- Measure,



audit and evaluate the occupational health and safety management systems and hazard controls at B2Gold operations for conformance with B2Gold’s occupational health and safety requirements and communicate the results of evaluations to site management and appropriate corporate personnel:
- Oversee the occupational health and safety standards (Management System Standards and Performance Standards) audit program, including communicating results to site management and appropriate corporate personnel;
- Ensure appropriate follow up on issues that arise out of audits, inspections and accident/incident investigations;
- Review regional and site occupational health and safety budgets;
- Oversee the development of the occupational health and safety components of the company’s Sustainability Report;

To build capacity of the Corporation’s occupational health and safety staff:

- Assist as necessary in the search for and recruitment of regional and site occupational health and safety personnel;
- Engage and support as needed the development of B2Gold regional and site occupational health and safety personnel;

To advise the management group on corporate health and safety:

- Produce and deliver monthly occupational health and safety reports on the operational performance of B2Gold sites;
- Report on occupational health and safety performance to the Board of Directors Sustainability Committee;
- Prepare internal and external occupational health and safety reports or components of reports as required;
- Interface as required with stakeholders on occupational health and safety matters;
- Conduct and report on occupational health and safety due diligence on potential acquisitions;
- Review best practices and the competitive landscape and recommend continuous improvement efforts in corporate occupational health an

📌 Director, Health and Safety (Vancouver)
🏢 B2Gold
📍 Vancouver