Sustainability in action

​Our Sustainability case studies demonstrate why the safety and health of our people is core to every aspect of our business and how we deliver on our social, environmental, ethical and economic responsibilities in a manner that is consistent with our values.  We do the right thing and focus our efforts on the things that matter most.

Case Study

Since 1997, BHP Billiton has been an active partner of Arid Recovery, Australia’s premier arid zone conservation partnership.  Other partners include the local community, the South Australian Department for Environment and Natural Resources and The University of Adelaide. Based at Roxby Downs, the program is a world-class conservation and research program that protects a range of native plants and animals in South Australia's arid zone.

Watch our Arid Recovery video.

Sustainability Case Studies

• Caroona Coal Project community program
• Controlling risk through system custodian processes
• Delivering a cleaner Hunter River
• Developing our people to enable future business growth
• Ensuring control effectiveness to prevent illness and disease
• The Forum on Corporate Responsibility
• Fostering local supplier development
• Helping communities generate livelihoods
• Helping preserve Indigenous cultures
• Managing land for rehabilitation
• Managing material Risk
• Managing the life cycle of uranium
• Managing worker fatigue
• Olympic Dam and the sustainability of the Great Artesian Basin
• Reducing personnel exposure in underground mining
• Reducing silica dust exposure
• Using hydraulic fracturing to produce unconventional oil and gas