While absolute results remain low overall, Teck shows one of the two stronger results in Lifecycle Management and one of the five stronger results in Community Wellbeing and Environmental Responsibility. In Lifecycle Management, Teck shows evidence of having systems in place designed to ensure its operations’ closure planning seeks continued livelihood viability for affected communities. The company has made formal commitments on a wide range of issues, including: preventing bribery and corruption, adopting a lifecycle approach, respecting human rights, ensuring safe and healthy working conditions, managing its environmental impacts systematically, and not exploring or mining in World Heritage Sites and respecting other protected areas.

As evidence of Teck’s continuous improvement efforts since the RMI Report 2020, the company’s approach to human rights now commits to respecting human rights defenders, giving Teck one of the two stronger results on the issue, and its new Expectations for Suppliers and Contractors, which include human rights requirements.

Teck is associated with several leading practices, including a living wage review and materials management to optimise recycling of goods used in their operations, with an overall target of zero industrial waste disposal by 2040.

However, Teck’s results in Economic Development are below the average and are limited by a lack of evidence of action on a number of issues, including for example working collaboratively with sub-national governments on socio-economic development planning, and developing procurement opportunities for suppliers at the national levels.

In the mine-site assessment Teck ranks 8th among the 40 companies on its mine-site-level results, with an average score of only 14%. Moreover, none of the seven Teck mine sites show any relevant evidence on four of the fifteen issues covered in the assessment: safety of communities, safety of workers, women workers, and living wage.