Integrated Annual Report 2014
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Integrated Annual Report 2014
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Integrated Annual Report 2014
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| A, B, C, D or E levels | Paterson job grading levels |
| ABET | Adult Basic Education and Training |
| Aids | Acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
| AMCU | The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union |
| ART | Antiretroviral therapy, provided for the treatment of HIV and Aids (excluding State and private medical aid) |
| BEE | Black economic empowerment |
| CCMA | Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration |
| CO2 | Carbon dioxide |
| dB | Decibels. Unit of measurement for sound |
| DMR | Department of Mineral Resources, South Africa |
| EIA | Environmental Impact Assessment |
| EMP | Environmental Management Programme |
| ESOP | Employee Share Ownership Programme |
| Executive director | Is employed by the Company and is involved in the day-to-day running of the organisation |
| FIFR | A rate expressed per million man-hours of any Impala employee, contractor or contractor employee or visitor who is involved in an incident whilst performing his duties at work and who sustains terminal injuries shall constitute a fatal accident. Any road-related fatal incident where the Company is in full control of the vehicle, the driver and conditions related to the road injury of an employee shall constitute a fatal incident. A fatal injury may occur when an employee is incapacitated for a period of time prior to expiration, thus requiring a revision of injury status from lost-time injury to a fatality |
| GJ | Gigajoules. Unit of measure for energy |
| GRI | Global Reporting Initiative |
| HDSA | Historically disadvantaged South African |
| HIV | Human immuno-deficiency virus |
| HSE | Health, Safety and Environment |
| IBT | Impala Bafokeng Trust, socio-economic development vehicle jointly funded by Implats and RBH |
| Impala Platinum | Impala Platinum Limited, comprising the Rustenburg operations and the Refineries in Springs |
| Implats | Impala Platinum Holdings Limited |
| Independent directors | Directors who apart from receiving directors' remuneration do not have any other material pecuniary relationship or transactions with the Company, its management or its subsidiaries, which in the judgement of the board may affect their independence |
| IRS | Impala Refining Services |
| ISO | International Organisation for Standardisation |
| JORC Code | The 2004 Australasian Code for Reporting of Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. This was updated and reissued as the JORC Code 2012 |
| LED | Local Economic Development |
| Local community | Communities that are directly impacted on by our mining operations and are on or near the mine lease area |
| Lost-time | A work-related injury resulting in the employee being unable to attend work at his/her place of work, performing his/her assigned duties, on the next calendar day (whether a scheduled work day or not) after the day of the injury. If the appointed medical professional advises that the injured person is unable to attend work on the next calendar day after the injury, regardless of the injured person's next roster shift, a lost-time injury is deemed to have occurred |
| LTIFR | Number of lost-time injuries expressed as a rate per million man-hours worked |
| Marula | Marula Platinum Proprietary Limited |
| Materiality and material issues | Issues of materiality are those aspects that may have a significant impact on the organisation's reputation and may carry a financial and/or legal cost. These aspects are identified internally through the risk process and externally through ad hoc or routine engagements with a range of stakeholders |
| Mimosa | Mimosa Platinum (Private) Limited |
| Mining Charter | Broad-based Socio-Economic Empowerment Charter for the South African Mining Industry |
| MPRDA | Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 28 of 2002, which came into effect in South Africa on 11 May 2004 |
| Medical Treatment Cases (MTCs) | A Medical Treatment Case is defined as a one-time treatment and subsequent observation of minor injuries by an appointed medical professional. Such minor injuries may include treatment by the application of bandages, antiseptic, ointment, irrigation of the eye to remove non-embedded foreign objects or the removal of foreign objects from the wound. MTCs never involve a loss of one or more calendar days after the injury, regardless of the injured person's next rostered shift or where the injured is unable to perform one or more of their routine functions normally connected with their work due to a restriction applied by an appointed medical professional |
| MW | Megawatt, a measure of electric power |
| NIHL | Noise-induced hearing loss |
| Non-executive director | A director who is not involved in the day-to-day running of the organisation but is a nominee director of a material shareholder |
| NOx | Oxides of nitrogen |
| NUM | National Union of Mineworkers, South Africa |
| PGE | Platinum group elements |
| PGI | Platinum Guild International |
| PGMs | Platinum group metals being the metals derived from PGE |
| Platinum Rules | Set of key safety rules |
| PTA | Purified Terephthalic Acid |
| RBH | Royal Bafokeng Holdings Proprietary Limited |
| RBN | Royal Bafokeng Nation |
RIFR |
Reportable or serious injury frequency rate. |
| A reportable injury is an injury which results in:
(a) the death of the employee; (b) an injury, to any employee, likely to be fatal; (c) unconsciousness, incapacitation from heatstroke or heat exhaustion, oxygen deficiency, the inhalation of fumes or poisonous gas, or electric short or electric burning accidents of or by any employee and which is not reportable in terms of paragraph (d), or as required by the Occupational Health and Safety Act where applicable; (d) an injury which either incapacitates the injured employee from performing that employee's normal occupation for a period totalling 14 days or more, or which causes the injured employee to suffer the loss of a joint, or a part of a joint, or sustain a permanent disability |
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| Restricted Work Injuries (RWI) | A Restricted Work Injury is a work-related injury which results in the employee being able to return to his or her permanently assigned workplace, to perform his or her permanently assigned work on the next calendar day, but where the injured is unable to perform one or more of their routine functions normally connected with their work due to a restriction applied by an appointed medical professional |
| SIFR | Number of serious injuries expressed as a rate per million man-hours worked |
| SLP | Social and Labour Plan |
| SMMEs | Small, medium and micro enterprises |
| SO2 | Sulphur dioxide |
| TB | Pulmonary tuberculosis, which in South Africa is considered an occupational illness when it is associated with the presence of dust in the workplace |
| Traditional council leadership | Elected/appointed members of a community according to customs and practices. The tenure of these leaders differ among communities. The chief King/Kgoshi/Kgosi or inKhosi is the head of the Traditional council leadership and the chairman of the council |
| VCT | Voluntary counselling and testing, in respect of HIV and Aids |
| WIM | Women in Mining, being all females including foreign nationals who are involved in core business activities of mining |
| 4E | Platinum, palladium, rhodium and gold |
| 6E | Platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and gold |