Bullying, sexual harassment and racism rife at Rio Tinto, workplace review finds

More than 43% of women working at Rio Tinto’s fly-in fly-out (Fifo) and drive-in drive-out mine sites say they have experienced sexual harassment, including threatening behaviour from male colleagues. Photograph: Krystle Wright/The Guardian

Bullying, sexual harassment and racism are common throughout Rio Tinto, according to a review of the global miner’s workplace culture conducted by Australia’s former sex discrimination commissioner Elizabeth Broderick.

Rio Tinto’s chief executive, Jakob Stausholm, said the findings were “deeply disturbing” and he promised the company would implement all 26 recommendations Broderick made to improve its culture.