Glossary
Glossary of terms and acronyms
- ABET
- Adult Basic Education and Training
- AIDS
- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- ART
- Antiretroviral therapy
- BEE
- Black economic empowerment
- CBO
- Community–based organization
- CO2
- Carbon dioxide
- CSI
- Corporate social investment
- dB
- Decibels – unit of measurement for sound
- DME
- Department of Minerals and Energy, South Africa
- DWAF
- Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, South Africa
- EIA
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- EMP
- Environmental Management Programme
- EMS
- Environmental Management System
- ESOP
- Employee Share Ownership Programme
- ESP
- Electrostatic precipitator
- Exco
- Executive Committee, Implats
- FIFR
- Fatal injury frequency rate (expressed per million manhours worked)
- FOG
- Fall of ground
- FY
- Financial year (to 30 June)
- GJ
- Gigajoules – unit of measure for energy
- GRI
- Global Reporting Initiative
- HDSAs
- Historically disadvantaged South Africans
- HIV
- Human immuno–deficiency virus
- H2SO4
- Sulphuric acid
- ICDT
- Impala Community Development Trust
- IDP
- Integrated Development Plan
- ILO
- International Labour Organization
- Impala Platinum
- Impala Platinum Limited, comprising the Rustenburg operations and the Refineries in Springs
- Implats
- Impala Platinum Holdings Limited
- ISO
- International Organization for Standardization
- LTIFR
- Lost–time injury frequency rate (expressed per million manhours worked)
- Marula
- Marula Platinum (Pty) Limited
- Mimosa
- Mimosa Platinum (Private) Limited
- Mining Charter
- Broad–based Socio–economic Empowerment Charter
- MPRDA
- Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 28 of 2002, which came into effect in South Africa on 11 May 2004.
- MQA
- Mine Qualifications Authority
- MW
- Megawatt
- NGO
- Non–governmental organisation
- NIHL
- Noise–induced hearing loss
- Nm³
- Normal cubic metre of gas
- Nm³/s
- Normal cubic metre of gas measured under standard conditions
- NUM
- National Union of Mineworkers, South Africa
- PGMs
- Platinum group metals
- ppm
- Parts per million
- SEP
- Stakeholder Engagement Programme
- SETA
- Sector Education and Training Authority
- SHE
- Safety, health and environment
- SHEQ
- Safety, health, environment and quality
- SLP
- Social and Labour Plan
- SMME
- Small, medium and micro enterprises
- SO2
- Sulphur dioxide
- STI
- Sexually transmitted infection
- TB
- Pulmonary tuberculosis
- Teba
- An institution owned by the South African mining industry through which the industry has historically recruited labour but which now fulfils a broader social role in addition to its recruitment function.
- UASA
- United Association of South Africa
- VCT
- Voluntary counselling and testing
- WHO
- World Health Organization
- WIM
- Women in mining
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