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- ABET
- Adult Basic Education and Training
- AIDS
- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- ART
- Anti-retroviral therapy, provided for the treatment of HIV & AIDS
- BEE
- Black economic empowerment
- CBO
- Community-based organisation
- CO2
- Carbon dioxide
- dB
- Decibels. Unit of measurement for sound
- DMR
- Department of Minerals and Resources, South Africa
- DSM
- Demand side management
- 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 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 LTI to a fatality.
- FOG
- Fall of ground
- FY
- Financial year (to 30 June)
- GJ
- Gigajoules. Unit of measure for energy
- GHG
- Greenhouse gases
- 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 RBH
- ICDT
- Impala Community Development Trust, vehicle for socio-economic development, now dissolved
- 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
- IRS
- Impala Refining Services
- IPA
- International Platinum Association
- ISO
- International Organization for Standardisation
- LED
- Local Economic Development
- 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 rostered shift, a lost time injury is deemed to have occurred.
- LTIFR
- Lost time injuries, expressed as a rate per million hours worked.
- Marula
- Marula Platinum (Pty) Limited
- 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
Case
(MTC) - 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 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
- NBI
- National Business Institute
- NGO
- Non-governmental organisation
- NIHL
- Noise-induced hearing loss
- NUM
- National Union of Mineworkers, South Africa
- PGI
- Platinum Guild International
- PGMs
- Platinum group metals
- RBH
- Royal Bafokeng Holdings
- RWC
- Restricted Work Case. This refers to an individual who is injured on duty and receives medical treatment and is deemed by medical staff to be fit to resume his/her normal duties, in his normal working place, but with certain restrictions for a specified time period.
- Reportable
- A reportable injury is an injury which results in:
- the death of an employee;
- an injury, to any employee, likely to be fatal;
- 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 OHS Act where applicable.
- 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.
- ppm
- Parts per million
- 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 work place, 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.
- RLM
- Rustenburg Local Municipality
- SAMDA
- South African Mining Development Association
- SAWIMA
- South African Women in Mining Association
- SED
- Socio-economic development
- SHEQ
- Safety, health, environment and quality
- SLP
- Social and Labour Plan
- SMC
- Selous Metallurgical Complex
- 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.
- UASA
- United Association of South Africa
- UNGC
- United Nations Global Compact
- VCT
- Voluntary counselling and testing, in respect of HIV & AIDS
- WHO
- World Health Organization
| Indicator | Basis of calculation |
|---|---|
| Indirect energy | Calculated by multiplying the MWh by 3.6 (basic principles) to get GJ |
| Indirect CO2 | Eskom website (period 01 April 07 to 31 Mar 08) |
| Direct energy from diesel, petrol and IBO | Department of Trade and Industry - UK |
| Direct CO2 from diesel, petrol and IBO | Basic principles, assuming full combustion |
| Direct energy from Sasol gas | From Sasol gas (supplier) |
| Direct CO2 from Sasol gas | From Sasol gas (supplier) |
| Direct energy from coal consumption | Supplier analysis |
| Direct CO2 from coal consumption | Supplier analysis |