REPORTING IN LINE WITH THE GRI

Northam has provided an index below of compliance with the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) G3.1 reporting guidelines and the core performance indicators.

Northam has self-declared a B+ level of reporting and has engaged external auditors ERM to assure certain key parameters and the group’s compliance with its stated application level. In addition, GRI has verified that this report fully complies with the G3.1 reporting guidelines and core performance indicators for a B+ level of reporting (see GRI application level check statement).

G3.1 Indicator	Description	Page	Level of reporting
Profile
1.	Strategy and analysis
1.1	Statement from senior decision maker	Chief Executive’s review	Fully
1.2	Description of key impacts, risks, and opportunities	Chief Executive’s review	Fully
2. Organisational profile
2.1	Organisation’s name	Company profile	Fully
2.2	Major products	Company profile, Our products and markets	Fully
2.3	Operational structure and major divisions	Company profile	Fully
2.4	Location of headquarters	Company profile	Fully
2.5	Countries of operation	Company profile	Fully
2.6	Nature of ownership	Company profile	Fully
2.7	Markets served including geographic breakdown/sectors served/customers	Company profile, Our products and markets, Economic performance	Fully
2.8	Scale of organisation including number of employees, net sales/revenues, total capitalisation	Company profile, Economic performance,Integrated report: Ten year financial review, Financial director’s review,	Fully
2.9	Significant changes during reporting period	Company profile	Fully
2.10	Awards received	Corporate governance	Fully
3. Report parameters
3.1	Reporting period	Report scope and boundary	Fully
3.2	Date of previous report	Report scope and boundary	Fully
3.3	Reporting cycle	Report scope and boundary	Fully
3.4	Contact point	Report scope and boundary	Fully
Report scope and boundary
3.5	Process for defining report content	Our approach, Chief executive's review	Fully
3.6	Boundary of the report	Report scope and boundary	Fully
3.7	Limitations on the scope or boundary of the report	Report scope and boundary	Fully
3.8	Basis for reporting on joint ventures, etc.	Report scope and boundary	Fully
3.9	Data measurement techniques and bases of calculations including assumptions	Report scope and boundary	Fully
3.10	Restatements of information	Report scope and boundary	Fully
3.11	Significant changes from previous reporting periods	Company profile, Economic performance	Fully
GRI content index
3.12	Table identifying the location of the disclosures in the report	This page	Fully
Assurance
3.13	Policy and practice for seeking independent assurance for report	Report from the Independent Assurer	Fully
4. Governance, commitments and engagement
Management approach		Corporate governance	Fully
4.1	Governance structure including committees	Corporate governance	Fully
4.2	Indicate whether chair of highest governance body is also an executive officer	Corporate governance	Fully
4.3	Number and gender of independent directors	Corporate governance	Fully
4.4	Mechanisms for shareholders and employees to provide recommendations/direction to highest governance body	Engaging with our Stakeholders, Corporate governance	Fully
4.5	Linkage between compensation and organisation’s performance for members of highest governance body/senior executives	Corporate governance	Fully
4.6	Process for the board to ensure conflicts of interest are avoided	Corporate governance	Fully
4.7	Processes for determining qualifications and expertise for guiding strategy	Corporate governance	Fully
4.8	Mission and values statements, codes of conduct, principles relevant to economic, environmental and social performance, and status of implementation	Corporate governance	Fully
4.9	Procedures of highest governance body for overseeing economic, environmental and social performance including compliance and codes of conduct	Corporate governance	Fully
4.10	Processes for evaluating performance of governance body with respect to economic, environmental and social performance	Corporate governance	Fully
Commitments to external initiatives
4.11	Explanation of how precautionary approach/principle is addressed by organisation	Environmental performance	Fully
4.12	Externally developed, voluntary economic, environmental, and social charters, sets of principles, or other initiatives	Report scope and boundary, Corporate governance, Economic performance, Employment and Human Rights	Fully
4.13	Significant memberships in associations and/or advocacy organisations	Engaging with our Stakeholders	Fully
Stakeholder engagement
Management approach		Engaging with our Stakeholders	Fully
4.14	List of stakeholder groups	Engaging with our Stakeholders	Fully
4.15	Basis for identification and selection of stakeholders with whom to engage	Engaging with our Stakeholders	Fully
4.16	Approaches to stakeholder engagement, including frequency and type	Engaging with our Stakeholders	Fully
4.17	Key issues raised through stakeholder engagement and how organisation has responded	Engaging with our Stakeholders	Fully
Economic performance indicators
Management approach		Economic performance	Fully
Economic performance indicators
EC1	Economic value generated and distributed, including revenues, operating costs, employee compensation, donations and other community investments, retained earnings, and payments to capital providers and governments	Economic performance	Fully
EC2	Financial implications and other risks and opportunities for the organisation’s activities due to climate change	Economic performance	Fully
EC4	Significant financial assistance received from government.	Economic performance	Fully
Market presence
EC6	Policy, practices and proportion of spending on locally based suppliers at significant locations of operation	Economic performance, Northam in the community	Fully
EC7	Procedures for local hiring and proportion of senior management hired from the local community at significant locations of operation	Employment and Human Rights	Fully
Indirect economic impacts
EC8	Development and impact of infrastructure investments and services provided primarily for public benefit through commercial, in-kind or pro-bono engagement.	Northam in the community	Fully
Environmental performance indicators
Management approach		Environmental performance	Partially
Materials
EN1	Materials used by weight or volume	Environmental performance	Fully
EN2	Percentage of materials used that are recycled input materials.	Environmental performance	Fully
Materials
EN3	Direct energy consumption by primary energy source	Environmental performance	Fully
EN4	Indirect energy consumption by primary source	Environmental performance	Fully
EN6	Initiatives to provide energy-efficient or renewable energy-based products and services, and reductions in energy requirements as a result of these initiatives	Environmental performance	Fully
EN7	Initiatives to reduce indirect energy consumption and reductions achieved	Environmental performance
Water
EN8	Total water withdrawal by source	Environmental performance	Fully
EN9	Water sources significantly affected by withdrawal of water	Environmental performance	Fully
EN10	Percentage and total volume of water recycled and reused	Environmental performance	Fully
Biodiversity
EN11	Location and size of land owned, leased, managed in, or adjacent to, protected areas and areas of high biodiversity value outside protected areas	Environmental performance	Fully
EN12	Description of significant impacts of activities, products and services on biodiversity in protected areas and areas of high biodiversity value outside protected areas	Environmental performance	Fully
EN13	Habitats protected or restored	Environmental performance	Fully
EN14	Strategies, current actions and future plans for managing impacts on biodiversity	Environmental performance	Fully
EN15	Number of Red List species with habitats in areas affected by operations	Environmental performance	Fully
Emissions, effluents and waste
EN16	Total direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight	Environmental performance	Fully
EN17	Other relevant indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight	Environmental performance	Fully
EN18	Initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reductions achieved	Environmental performance	Fully
EN19	Emissions of ozone-depleting substances by weight	Environmental performance	Fully
EN21	Total water discharge by quality and destination	Environmental performance	Fully
Products and services
EN26	Initiatives to mitigate environmental impacts of products and services, and extent of impact mitigation	Our products and markets, Product responsibility	Fully
Compliance
EN28	Monetary value of significant fines and total number of non-monetary sanctions for non-compliance with environmental laws and regulations	Corporate governance, Environmental performance	Fully
Transport
EN29	Significant environmental impacts of transporting products and other goods and materials used for the organisation’s operations, and transporting members of the workforce	Environmental performance	Fully
Social performance: Labour practices and decent work performance indicators
	Management approach	Employment and human rights	Fully
Employment
LA1	Total workforce by employment type, employment contract and region; broken down by gender	Employment and human rights	Fully
LA2	Total number and rate of employee turnover by age group, gender and region	Employment and human rights	Fully
LA3	Benefits provided to full-time employees that are not provided to temporary or part-time employees, by major operations	Employment and human rights	Fully
Labour/management relations
LA4	Percentage of employees covered by collective bargaining agreements	Employment and human rights	Fully
LA5	Minimum notice period(s) regarding significant operational changes, including whether it is specified in collective agreements	Employment and human rights	Fully
Labour/management relations
LA6	Percentage of total workforce represented in formal joint management-worker health and safety committees that help monitor and advise on occupational health and safety programmes	Safety, health and employee well-being: Safety	Fully
LA7	Rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days, and absenteeism, and number of work-related fatalities by region	Safety, health and employee well-being: Safety	Fully
LA8	Education, training, counselling, prevention and risk-control programmes in place to assist workforce	Safety, health and employee well-being: Health	Fully
LA9	Health and safety topics covered in formal agreements with trade unions	Safety, health and employee well-being: Safety	Fully
Training and education
LA11	Programmes for skills management and lifelong learning that support the continued employability of employees and assist them in managing career endings	Employment and human rights	Fully
Diversity and opportunity
LA13	Composition of governance bodies and breakdown of employees per category according to gender, age group, minority group membership and other indicators of diversity	Corporate governance, Employment and human rights	Fully
Human Rights performance indicators
Management approach		Employment and human rights	Partially
Non-discrimination
HR4	Total number of incidents of discrimination and corrective actions taken	Employment and human rights: Employment practices, Women in mining	Fully
Freedom of association and collective bargaining
HR5	Operations identified in which the right to exercise freedom of association and collective bargaining may be violated or at significant risk, and actions taken to support these rights	Employment and human rights: Human rights and collective bargaining, Employment equity	Fully
Child labour
HR6	Operations identified as having significant risk for incidents of child labour, and measures taken to contribute to the elimination of child labour	Employment and human rights	Fully
Forced and compulsory labour
HR7	Operations and significant suppliers identified as having significant risk for incidents of forced or compulsory labour, and measures to contribute to the elimination of forced or compulsory labour	Employment and human rights	Fully
Society performance indicators
Management approach		Northam in the community	Partially
Local communities
SO1	Percentage of operations with implemented local community engagement, impact assessments, and development programmes	Employment and human rights, Northam in the community	Fully
SO9	Operations with significant potential or actual negative impacts on local communities	Employment and human rights, Northam in the community	Fully
SO10	Prevention and mitigation measures implemented in operations with significant potential or actual negative impacts on local communities	Employment and human rights, Northam in the community	Fully
Public policy
SO6	Total value of financial and in-kind contributions to political parties, politicians and related institutions by country	Corporate governance	Fully
Anti-competitive behaviour
SO7	Total number of legal actions for anti-competitive behaviour, anti-trust and monopoly practices, and their outcomes	Corporate governance	Fully
Compliance
SO7	Total number of legal actions for anti-competitive behaviour, anti-trust and monopoly practices, and their outcomes	Corporate governance	Fully
Product responsibility performance indicators
Management approach		Product responsibility	Fully
Customer health and safety
PR1	Life cycle stages in which health and safety impacts of products and services are assessed for improvement, and percentage of significant products and services categories subject to such procedures	Product responsibility	Fully
PR2	Total number of incidents of non-compliance with regulations and voluntary codes concerning health and safety impacts of products and services during their life cycle, by type of outcomes	Product responsibility	Fully
Products and services
PR3	Type of product and service information required by procedures, and percentage of significant products and services subject to such information requirements	Product responsibility	Fully
PR4	Total number of incidents of non-compliance with regulations and voluntary codes concerning product and service information and labelling, by type of outcomes	Product responsibility	Fully
Marketing communication
PR6	Programmes for adherence to laws, standards and voluntary codes related to marketing communications, including advertising, promotion and sponsorship	Product responsibility	Fully
PR7	Total number of incidents of non-compliance with regulations and voluntary codes concerning marketing communications, including advertising, promotion and sponsorship by type of outcomes	Product responsibility	Fully
Customer privacy
PR8	Total number of substantiated complaints regarding breaches of customer privacy and losses of customer data	Product responsibility	Fully
Compliance
PR9	Monetary value of significant fines for non-compliance with laws and regulations concerning the provision and use of products and services	Product responsibility	Fully