Jim Bawden

Career chronology

• Specific roles and dates not supplied in current biography: KCGM, Anvil Mining, Resolute — Environmental/social/governance and Group HSEC engagements. Directors and Management (Jim Bawden profile; engagements); Jim Bawden Capability Statement (Capability statement; HSEC and resource-sector experience)

• More than 30 years in resources; exact employer chronology unavailable: Mining companies and government — Environmental regulation, permitting, water/waste/air quality, community consultation. Directors and Management (Jim Bawden profile; career)

• Current at cutoff; start date unknown in current profile: Bannerman Energy Ltd — Sustainability Manager. Directors and Management (Jim Bawden profile; current role)

Education and qualifications

Qualifications and professional designations disclosed by issuer

As reported in FY2026 annual report/current issuer profile · issuer reported · low materiality

BSc (Environmental Science), PhD (Hydrogeochemistry), FAusIMM. The annual report and issuer biography report these qualifications; no direct verification with awarding institutions or professional registers was completed.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. Issuer sources state the credentials; independent verification has not been completed.

Relevance: Qualifications are relevant to the executive’s disclosed function.

Bannerman Energy Annual Report 2026 (Directors and executives; individual biography; biography and role terms); Directors and Management (Individual leadership profile)

Industrial safety

Etango recorded its first lost-time injury after a 16-year incident-free period

2026-09-02; status checked through 2026-11-02 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Bannerman’s 29 September 2026 update says a contractor employee operating a compactor suffered a hairline fracture to his left foot on 2 September 2026. It was the project’s first lost-time injury and first in more than 16 years. The FY2026 annual report separately says there were no LTIs during the year ended 30 June 2026 and reports one million LTI-free hours in May 2026; those statements are period-consistent because the injury occurred after year end. The issuer called it a “reset” and said it would reinforce personal safety; no regulator investigation, prosecution, corrective-action finding or later medical outcome was located by the 2 November 2026 cutoff. Bawden’s sustainability role is relevant to project management systems, but no personal responsibility for this contractor safety incident was disclosed. The 29 October quarterly report restated the 2 September incident and the company’s safety-leadership response; no later regulator or corrective-action disposition was located by the 2 November cutoff.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Bawden’s sustainability role is relevant to project management systems, but no personal responsibility for this contractor safety incident was disclosed.

Relevance: Safety leadership and contractor controls are material as Etango shifts from early works to full construction.

Etango Construction Early Works Update – September 2026 (Workforce and safety; incident date, contractor task and injury); Bannerman Energy Annual Report 2026 (Directors’ report, pp. 19–20; no FY2026 LTI and one million LTI-free hours by May 2026); Quarterly Activities Report for period ended 30 September 2026 (p. 4; 2 September contractor LTI and injury details)

Environmental record

Issuer reports current permits and no FY2026 reportable environmental incidents

FY2026 to 30 June 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality

In its FY2026 annual report Bannerman says key Etango environmental clearance certificates remained valid, two independent environmental audits found no non-conformances, and no reportable environmental incidents occurred during the year ended 30 June 2026. It also states directors were unaware of material licence breaches. These are issuer-reported statements; the audit reports and regulator inspection files were not independently reviewed. The report concerns project-level controls relevant to the Sustainability Manager’s remit; it does not establish that Bawden performed the audits or certify the absence of undiscovered issues.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The report concerns project-level controls relevant to the Sustainability Manager’s remit; it does not establish that Bawden performed the audits or certify the absence of undiscovered issues.

Relevance: Relevant to project permitting and environmental management during development, but evidence does not independently verify the company’s claims.

Bannerman Energy Annual Report 2026 (Directors’ report, printed pp. 19–20; environmental permits, audit and incident disclosures)

Suitability for the current role

Public evidence does not yet establish full role fit

Current role at 2026-11-02 · analyst inference · low materiality

The issuer describes more than 30 years in resources, including ESG/HSEC work on KCGM, Anvil Mining and Resolute; mining and environmental-regulation engagements in Australia and Africa; water, waste, air-quality and permitting expertise; and BSc Environmental Science, PhD Hydrogeochemistry and FAusIMM. This fits sustainability work at a uranium project, but specific role dates and independently verified credentials are absent.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is a limited analyst inference about role relevance, not a claim of personal contribution or responsibility.

Relevance: Sustainability Manager supports the company’s operations and governance.

Bannerman Energy Annual Report 2026 (Directors and executives; individual biography; biography and role terms); Directors and Management (Issuer leadership profile; individual biography); Jim Bawden Capability Statement (Capability statement; education, HSEC capability and multi-country experience)

Evidence gaps

• Logged open-web searches are scoped rather than exhaustive; no comprehensive criminal, sanctions, court, regulator, professional-discipline or credential-register search was completed.

• Underlying FY2026 audit reports and independent site/regulator inspection records were not reviewed.

• The issuer announced its 2026 Sustainability Report on 12 October 2026, but the attached PDF was not accessible in this refresh; environmental findings are not updated from that report.