- ABET
- Adult Basic Education and Training
- AIDS
- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- ART
- Anti-retroviral therapy
- BEE
- Black economic empowerment
- CBO
- Community–based organisation
- CO2
- Carbon dioxide
- 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
- 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 accident 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. 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 LTI to fatality.
- FOG
- Fall of ground
- FY
- Financial year (to 30 June)
- GJ
- Gigajoules – unit of measure for energy
- GRI
- Global Reporting Initiative
- HDSA
- Historically disadvantaged South African
- HIV
- Human immuno–deficiency virus
- IBT
- Impala Bafokeng Trust, socio-economic development vehicle jointly funded by Implats and the RBN
- ICDT
- Impala Community Development Trust, vehicle for socio-economic development
- 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
- A rate expressed per million man hours for a work-related injury that results 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 rostered shift, a lost time injury is deemed to have occurred. Lost time injuries include reportable and fatal injuries.
- 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.
- MTC
- A medical treatment case is defined as a one-time treatment and subsequent observation of minor injuries by a physician, occupational health practitioner or other medical professional. Such minor injuries include the application of bandages, antiseptic, ointment, irrigation of eye to remove non-embedded foreign objects or the removal of foreign objects in a wound by using tweezers. MTCs may involve minor loss of consciousness, restriction of work or motion, but never involves a loss of one or more calendar day after the injury, regardless of the injured person's next rostered shift.
- MW
- Megawatt
- NGO
- Non–governmental organisation
- NHL
- Noise–induced hearing loss
- NUM
- National Union of Mineworkers, South Africa
- PGMs
- Platinum group metals
- ppm
- Parts per million
- SED
- Socio-economic development
- SETA
- Sector Education and Training Authority
- SHEQ
- Safety, health, environment and quality
- SLP
- Social and Labour Plan
- SMMEs
- Small, medium and micro enterprises
- SO2
- Sulphur dioxide
- TB
- Pulmonary tuberculosis
- UASA
- United Association of South Africa
- VCT
- Voluntary counselling and testing
- WHO
- World Health Organization