“This year we made good progress in managing health risks and delivering on our health strategy

Employee health and well-being

Effective management of occupational health risks, and promoting health and well-being in the workplace, protects our employees, enhances productivity, and helps maintain our licence to operate. Investing in healthcare in communities around our operations provides a significant societal benefit and is also important for achieving our longer-term business goals.

At our South African operations, employees and their families have the choice of belonging to one from a menu of medical schemes. Company funding is based on the cost of the internal medical aid, the Impala Medical Plan (IMP). The IMP is a registered medical scheme that was formed to provide private care to employees and their dependants through Company-owned and operated facilities at Impala Rustenburg, Marula and Impala Springs. In addition, we provide access to external medical schemes to those employees who prefer alternative private arrangements. During the second quarter of this year, following a request by AMCU, we added a new scheme, ‘Commed Roots’ at Impala Rustenburg. The scheme was well received and attracted 1 733 new members in the change period at Impala Rustenburg. Extensive consultation took place with individual employees, to ensure an understanding of the associated benefits and rules.

The South African Government’s commitment to developing National Health Insurance (NHI) will impact our non-occupational health strategy. We continue to support the NHI through partnerships, working closely with the Department of Health (DoH) directly and through the Bojanala Health Forum.

At our Zimbabwean operations, Mimosa has also been able to institute a national safety and health campaign dubbed the “Let’s Go Zero” Health and Safety Campaign. The initiative aims at mobilising stakeholders’ support operations on the basis of shared national goals. Drawn from Mimosa’s existing company motto, “Zero Harm is Possible”, the private-public partnership campaign seeks to bring better living through encouraging good driving habits to achieve zero carnage on the roads, zero pollution and deforestation, zero new HIV infections and also zero accidents at the workplace. To ensure that the campaign is highly impactful, Mimosa works with sustainable development partners such as the National AIDS Council (NAC), Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ), the Environmental Management Agency of Zimbabwe (EMA), Zimbabwe National Roads Association (ZINARA) and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP).