| Description |
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| Human resource development
Has the Company offered every employee the opportunity of being functionally literate and numerate by the year 2005 and are employees being trained?
Has the Company implemented career paths for HDSA employees, including skills development plans?
Has the Company developed systems through which empowerment groups can be mentored?1 |
59, 60, 8760, 86, 87
87 |
| Employment equity
Has the Company published its employment equity plan and reported on its annual progress in meeting that plan?
Has the Company established a plan to achieve a target for HDSA participation in management of 40% within five years and is it implementing the plan?
Has the Company identified a talent pool and is it fast-tracking it?
Has the Company established a plan to achieve the target for women participation in mining of 10% within the five years and is it implementing it? |
60, 86, 87,135
13586, 87
86,
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| Migrant labour
Has the Company subscribed to government and industry agreements to ensure non-discrimination against foreign migrant labour?2 |
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| Mine community and rural development
Has the Company cooperated in the formulation of integrated development plans and is the Company cooperating with government in the implementation of these plans for communities where mining takes place and for major labour-sending areas?
Has there been effort on the side of the Company to engage the local mine community and major labour-sending area communities? (Companies will be required to cite a pattern of consultation, indicate money expenditures and show a plan.) |
95 – 100
|
| Housing and living conditions
For Company-provided housing, has the mine, in consultation with stakeholders, established measures for improving the standard of housing, including the upgrading of hostels and conversion of hostels to family units, and promoted home-ownership options for mine employees?
Companies will be required to indicate what they have done to improve housing, show a plan to progress the issue over time and demonstrate that they are implementing the plan.
For Company-provided nutrition, has the mine established measures for improving the nutrition of mine employees?
Companies will be required to indicate what they have done to improve nutrition, show a plan to progress the issue over time and demonstrate that they are implementing the plan. |
90
90
81
|
| Procurement
Has the mining company given HDSAs preferred-supplier status?
Has the mining company identified current levels of procurement from HDSA companies in terms of capital goods, consumables and services?
Has the mining company indicated a commitment to a progression of procurement from HDSA companies over a three- to five-year timeframe in terms of capital goods, consumables and services, and to what extent has the commitment been implemented? |
65
65
|
| Ownership and joint ventures
Will the mining company achieve HDSA participation, in terms of ownership of equity or attributable units of production, of 15% in HDSA hands within five years and 26% within 10 years?3 |
67
|
| Beneficiation
Has the mining company identified its current level of beneficiation?
Has the mining company established its base-line level of beneficiation and indicated the extent that this will have to be grown to qualify for an offset?4 |
118
118
|
| Reporting
Has the Company reported in its annual report progress towards achieving its commitments?5 |
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