# Fiona Bartier
General Manager, Health, Safety, Environment & Community
## Career chronology
- **Joined Bathurst in 2012 to manage its HSEC portfolio; current role in 2025 annual report and current issuer page: Bathurst Resources Limited** — General Manager, Health, Safety, Environment & Community. [Our People]() (Our People, lines 101–106); [Annual Report 2025]() (Senior leadership, p. 22, lines 381–383)
- **Earlier career before or alongside Bathurst; specific employers and dates not stated: Government, industry groups and mining companies** — Management roles in environmental/resource science and HSEC. [Our People]() (Our People, lines 101–106)
## Business failures and setbacks
### BPCP application returned over approval/consent completeness [fiona_bpcp_incomplete]
September 2026 · documented · medium materiality
In September 2026 Bathurst disclosed that EPA had returned the BPCP substantive application as incomplete because further work was needed on wildlife approval and reserve-manager consent. The Fast-track record confirms return on 23 September and the ability to lodge a new application. The issue overlaps Fiona’s HSEC remit, but source material does not identify who owned the application components or assign individual responsibility; resubmission remained possible at cutoff.
**Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. HSEC remit creates role overlap only; the records do not connect Fiona personally to the omissions.
**Relevance:** Environmental approvals are relevant to HSEC oversight and the company’s growth-project execution.
[BPCP Fast Track Application Update]() (p. 1); [Buller Plateaux Continuation]() (lines 90–127)
## Industrial safety
### FY25 group injury-frequency measures improved [fiona_safety_progress]
FY2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality
Bathurst reported FY25 group TRIFR of 8.99 and LTIFR of 4.19 per million hours, down from 18.12 and 6.3 respectively in FY24, across Bathurst and 100% of BT Mining operations. Fiona’s HSEC remit overlaps this portfolio, but the report does not attribute the result to her individually and it is not an independent safety audit.
**Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. HSEC portfolio overlap is documented; individual causation or contribution is not.
**Relevance:** Safety performance is central to Fiona’s current HSEC remit and mining risk oversight.
[Annual Report 2025]() (key statistics, p. 18); [Annual Report 2025]() (Health and safety, p. 44, lines 1232–1255)
## Environmental record
### Canterbury sediment-control and closure cases during HSEC remit [fiona_environmental_record]
2017–2022; Canterbury mine · documented · medium materiality
Environment Canterbury reported 14 infringement notices and a NZ$10,500 fine against Bathurst Coal in 2017 for unconsented sediment runoff. Bathurst’s FY2020 annual report reports a separate 2018 discharge case ending in a guilty plea, conviction and NZ$18,000 fine in November 2019. Joint councils refused closure and rehabilitation consents in 2022; the current regulator record says the decision was appealed. Fiona joined in 2012 to manage HSEC, but no personal role in the incidents or causal responsibility is shown.
**Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Her HSEC leadership period overlaps the company/site events; records do not identify her as an actor or establish individual fault.
**Relevance:** Environmental controls and mine closure are directly relevant to her HSEC remit.
[Coal mine fined for consent breaches]() (lines 71–88); [Annual Report 2020]() (p. 35, lines 1624–1635); [Bathurst Coal Limited — notified decision]() (lines 69–79); [Bathurst Coal Limited — current consent status]() (lines 5–18)
## Suitability for the current role
### General Manager, Health, Safety, Environment & Community is supported by relevant functional experience [fiona_bartier_fit]
Current role as at 10 October 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality
An environmental and resource scientist with more than 20 years in management roles across government, industry groups and mining companies; she has managed Bathurst’s HSEC portfolio since joining in 2012. This background is relevant to the remit. The reviewed bios do not identify a specific degree, professional registration or individual incident outcome.
**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. This is an analyst assessment of role fit, based on issuer-reported career facts; it is not an independent performance evaluation.
**Relevance:** Role fit is relevant to the executive team’s ability to run operating mines, manage growth or deliver company functions.
[Our People]() (Our People, lines 101–106); [Annual Report 2025]() (Senior leadership, p. 22, lines 381–383)
## Evidence gaps
- Earlier employers, specific education/registration, exact career dates and independent evidence of her individual HSEC outcomes are not fully documented in the reviewed public sources.
- The environmental and permitting outcomes are company/project matters; no individual responsibility for the 2017–2022 Canterbury events or 2026 BPCP application omissions was established.
- No exhaustive WorkSafe, court, criminal, sanctions or professional-disciplinary search was completed; the targeted public-source search is not a clearance.