Sustainable development report 2015
Supplement to the integrated annual report 30 June 2015
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Appendix
Glossary of terms and acronyms

ABET

Adult Basic Education and Training

Aids

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome

AMCU

Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union

AMWUZ

Associated Mine Workers Union of Zimbabwe

ART

Antiretroviral therapy, provided for the treatment of HIV and Aids (excluding state and private medical aid)

B-BBEE

Broad-based black economic empowerment

CO2

Carbon dioxide

CoM

Chamber of Mines

CSOT

Community Share Ownership Trust

CTF

Cultural transformation framework

dB

Decibels. Unit of measurement for sound

DEROs

Desired Emissions Reduction Objectives

DOH

Department of Health

DMR

Department of Mineral Resources, South Africa

DPM

Diesel Particulate Matter

DSM

Demand-side management

DWS

Department of Water and Sanitation

EAO

Emolument attachment orders

ECD

Early childhood development

EFF

Economic Freedom Fighters

EIA

Environmental impact assessment

EITI

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

EMA

Environmental Management Agency of Zimbabwe

EMP

Environmental management programme

ESOP

Employee Share Ownership Programme

ESOT

Employee Share Ownership Trust

Executive director

Is employed by the Company and is involved in the day-to-day running of the organisation

EVP

Employee value proposition

FIFR

A rate expressed per million man-hours of any Impala employee, contractor or contractor employee or visitor who is involved in an incident while 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

FLC

Foundational Learning Competence

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 immunodeficiency virus

HPD

Hearing Protection Devices

HSE

Health safety and environment

HSRC

Human Science Research Council

IBC

Inside back cover

IFC

Inside front cover

IFRS

International Financial Reporting Standards

IBT

Impala Bafokeng Trust, socio-economic development vehicle jointly funded by Implats and RBH

ILO

International Labour Organisation

IMP

Impala Medical Plan

Impala Platinum

Impala Platinum Limited, comprising Impala Rustenburg and Impala 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

IPA

International Platinum Group Metals Association

ISO

International Organisation for Standardisation

IWWMP

Integrated waste and water management plan

IIP

Indigenisation Implementation Plan

JSE

Johannesburg stock exchange

LCA

Life cycle assessment

LCMs

Loose cubic metres

LED

Local Economic Development

Local community

Communities that are directly impacted by our mining operations and are on or near the mine lease area

Lost-time injury

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

LSE

London Stock Exchange

LTIFR

Number of lost-time injuries expressed as a rate per million hours worked and includes restricted work cases

Marula

Marula Platinum (Pty) Ltd

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

MCDA

Marula community development agency

MCLEF

Mine Communities Leadership Engagement forum

MCSOT

Mberengwa Community Share Ownership Trust

MCT

Marula community trust

MHSC

Mine, health and safety council

MIGDETT

Mining Industry Growth Development and Employment Task Team

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

NAC

National Aids Council

NASCA

National Senior Certificate for Adults

NCPC

National Cleaner Production Centre

NCR

National credit regulator

NGO

Non-governmental organisation

NBI

National Business Institute

NDP

National Development Plan

NIHL

Noise-induced hearing loss

NMWVZ

National Mine Workers Union of Zimbabwe

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

Nitrous Oxide

NRF

National Research Foundation

NUM

National Union of Mineworkers, South Africa

OEM

Original Equipment Manufacturer

OHSAS

Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series

ORAs

Objective-based risk assessments

PBC

PGM beneficiation committee

PDS

Proximity detective systems

PFA

President’s Framework Agreement

PGI

Platinum Guild International

PGMs

Platinum group metals being the metals derived from PGE

PIC

Public Investment Corporation

PPC

Platinum producer’s committee

PPE

Personal protective equipment

PPM

Parts per million

RBED

Royal Bafokeng Enterprise Development

RBH

Royal Bafokeng Holdings

RBN

Royal Bafokeng Nation/Administration

Reportable

(a)

A reportable injury is an injury which results in:
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 OHS 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

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

RDP

Reconstruction and Development Programme

RFA

Rehabilitation and Fitness Assessment

RLM

Rustenburg local municipality

RO

Reverse osmosis

RSIP

Rehabilitation strategy and implantation plan

SD

Sustainable development

SED

Socio-economic development

SET

Social, ethics and transformation

SHEQ

Safety, health and environment quality

SLP

Social and labour plan

SMC

Selous Metallurgical Complex

SMMEs

Small, medium and micro enterprises

SO2

Sulphur dioxide

SRI

Socially responsible investment

TARP

Triggered action response plan

TB

Pulmonary tuberculosis, which in South Africa is considered an occupational illness when it is associated with the presence of dust in the workplace

TEBA

The Employment Bureau of Africa

TMM

Trackless mobile machinery

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

TSCZ

Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe

UASA

United Association of South Africa

UNGC

United Nations Global Compact

VCT

Voluntary counselling and testing, in respect of HIV and Aids

VPSHR

Voluntary principles on security and human rights

WBCSD

World Business Council on Sustainable Development

WC/WDM

Water Conservation/Water Demand Management

WiM

Woman in mining

WPIC

World Platinum Investment Council

WUL

Water use licence

ZCSOT

Zvishavane Community Share Ownership Trust

ZINARA

Zimbabwe National Roads Association

ZIP

Zero incident process

ZRP

Zimbabwe Republic Police


INDICATOR

Basic calculation

Indirect energy

2015 DEFRA Guidelines

Indirect CO2 (SA)

Eskom Fact Sheet 2015

Indirect CO2 (Zimbabwe)

International Energy Agency (IEA) Report 2012

Direct energy from diesel, petrol, and IBO

2015 DEFRA Guidelines

Direct energy from Sasol Gas

Sasol Gas supplier

Direct CO2 from Sasol Gas

Sasol Gas supplier

Direct energy from coal consumption

Supplier analysis

Direct CO2 from coal consumption

Supplier analysis