Full background report
Tim Hewitt
Chief Operating Officer
Career chronology
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From February 2025: Ramelius Resources — Chief Operating Officer. Annual report FY2025 (PDF page 113 (printed page 111), visually checked KMP transition table)
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Before Ramelius: Gold Fields — GM Gruyere and senior technical roles. Management changes (Page 1, prior Gold Fields roles)
Industrial safety
Ramelius workplace injury trends
FY2025–FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality
Ramelius reported FY2026 total recordable injury frequency of 9.69 versus 11.12 in FY2025, while restricted-work injury frequency increased to 8.88 from 8.09.
Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Hewitt was COO; the company figures do not establish individual responsibility for incidents or changes.
Relevance: Safety oversight evidence includes both improvement and a deteriorating component.
Annual report FY2026 (PDF page 50, visually checked safety table)
Gruyere cyanide audit
2020 · documented · medium materiality
The 2020 cyanide management summary audit names Hewitt as Gruyere’s general manager and records full compliance with its cyanide-purchasing standard. This is a specific audit standard, not a full safety clearance.
Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The audit names him as responsible manager, but does not attribute the audit result personally.
Relevance: Provides limited independent evidence of past operational management.
Gruyere cyanide management audit (Pages 1 and 5, named responsible manager and standard 1.1)
Evidence gaps
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Independent credentials and memberships were not verified.
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Person-specific searches and prior-employer litigation, safety, environment and governance research remain incomplete.
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Contribution to company-wide outcomes and several prior-role dates remain unestablished.
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The single broad person-specific web query was reused across adverse-topic rows; separate investigations of each topic and prior employer remain incomplete.