BHP bosses face shareholders weeks after sacking hundreds of workers and two mine site deaths

Key points

• BHP executives faced shareholders at the company's annual general meeting in Sydney on Thursday. Shareholders asked whether the two recent mine deaths led to executive pay cuts.
• Chairman Ross McEwan said BHP operates the joint-venture mines where the deaths occurred and takes full responsibility, and that a review of contractor arrangements is under way. Chief executive Brandon Craig said BHP has appointed a liaison to support the families of the two dead workers.
• He said that he believes mining can be fatality free.