World's biggest miner fired 48 workers in two years for sexual harassment

While harassment is a problem in workplaces around the world, isolated mines can be especially risky for women

Women still face a threat to their safety at remote mine sites across the globe. 

It’s a challenge the industry is grappling with after BHP Group, the world’s biggest miner, lifted the lid on a male-dominated culture in which sexual harassment is rife. 

The company has fired 48 workers at its sites in Western Australia since July 2019 after verifying allegations of harassment, BHP said in a submission to a state inquiry. The Melbourne-based company said it had also received two substantiated allegations of rape, with further cases still under investigation. Rio Tinto Group, in its submission, said it had received