Reporting in line with GRI
Northam has provided an index below of compliance with the Global Reporting
Initiative’s (GRI) G3.1 reporting guidelines and 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 Independent assurance report).
| G3 Indicator | Description | Page | Level of reporting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Profile | |||
| 1. | STRATEGY AND ANALYSIS | ||
| 1.1 | Statement from senior decision maker | The chief executive’s review of the business | Fully |
| 1.2 | Description of key impacts, risks, and opportunities | The chief executive’s review of the business | Fully |
| 2. | ORGANISATIONAL PROFILE | ||
| 2.1 | Organisation’s name | Northam Platinum Limited | Fully |
| 2.2 | Major products | 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 | Our products and markets | Fully |
| 2.8 | Scale of organisation including number of employees, net sales/revenues, total capitalisation | Company profile, Five-year sustainability review, Financial capital | Fully |
| 2.9 | Significant changes during reporting period | Our approach to reporting | Fully |
| 2.10 | Awards received | None | Fully |
| 3. | REPORT PARAMETERS | ||
| 3.1 | Reporting period | Our approach to reporting | Fully |
| 3.2 | Date of previous report | Our approach to reporting | Fully |
| 3.3 | Reporting cycle | Our approach to reporting | Fully |
| 3.4 | Contact point | Our approach to reporting | Fully |
REPORT SCOPE AND BOUNDARY | |||
| 3.5 | Process for defining report content | Our approach to reporting | Fully |
| 3.6 | Boundary of the report | Our approach to reporting | Fully |
| 3.7 | Limitations on the scope or boundary of the report | Our approach to reporting | Fully |
| 3.8 | Basis for reporting on joint ventures, etc. | Our approach to reporting | Fully |
| 3.9 | Data measurement techniques and bases of calculations including assumptions | Our approach to reporting | Partially |
| 3.10 | Restatements of information | None | Fully |
| 3.11 | Significant changes from previous reporting periods | None | 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 | Our approach to reporting, Independent assurance report | Fully |
| 4. | GOVERNANCE, COMMUNITIES AND ENGAGEMENT | ||
Management approach | Fully | ||
| 4.1 | Governance structure including committees | Company profile; Corporate governance report of the Annual Integrated Report 2013 | Fully |
| 4.2 | Indicate whether chair of highest governance body is also an executive officer | Corporate governance report of the Annual Integrated Report 2013 | Fully |
| 4.3 | Number and gender of independent directors | Directorate of the Annual Integrated Report 2013 | Fully |
| 4.4 | Mechanisms for shareholders and employees to provide recommendations/ direction to highest governance body | A map of stakeholders and material issues | Fully |
| 4.5 | Linkage between compensation and organisation’s performance for members of highest governance body/senior executives | Social, ethics and human resources committee report of the Annual Integrated Report 2013 | Fully |
| 4.6 | Process for the board to ensure conflicts of interest are avoided | Social capital, Corporate governance report of the Annual Integrated Report 2013 | Fully |
| 4.7 | Processes for determining qualifications and expertise for guiding strategy | Social, ethics and human resources committee report of the Annual Integrated Report 2013 | Fully |
| 4.8 | Mission and values statements, codes of conduct, principles relevant to economic, environmental and social performance, and status of implementation | www.northam.co.za/sd/policies.asp | Fully |
| 4.9 | Procedures of highest governance body for overseeing economic, environmental and social performance including compliance and codes of conduct | Corporate governance report of the Annual Integrated Report 2013 | Fully |
| 4.10 | Processes for evaluating performance of governance body with respect to economic, environmental and social performance | Corporate governance report of the Annual Integrated Report 2013 | Fully |
COMMITMENTS TO EXTERNAL INITIATIVES | |||
| 4.11 | Explanation of how precautionary approach/principle is addressed by organisation | Natural capital | Fully |
| 4.12 | Externally developed, voluntary economic, environmental, and social charters, sets of principles, or other initiatives | Our approach to reporting www.cdproject.net | Fully |
| 4.13 | Significant memberships in associations and/or advocacy organisations | Natural capital | Fully |
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT | |||
Management approach | A map of stakeholders and material issues | Fully | |
| 4.14 | List of stakeholder groups | A map of stakeholders and material issues | Fully |
| 4.15 | Basis for identification and selection of stakeholders with whom to engage | A map of stakeholders and material issues | Fully |
| 4.16 | Approaches to stakeholder engagement, including frequency and type | A map of stakeholders and material issues | Fully |
| 4.17 | Key issues raised through stakeholder engagement and how organisation has responded | A map of stakeholders and material issues and through out this report | Fully |
| Economic performance indicators | |||
Management approach | Financial capital | Fully | |
| EC1 | Economic value generated and distributed, including revenues, operating costs, employee compensation, donations and other community investments, retained earnings, and payments to capital provider and governments | Financial capital: value added statement | Fully |
| EC2 | Financial implications and other risks and opportunities for the organisation’s activities due to climate change | Natural capital www.cdproject.net | Fully |
| EC4 | Significant financial assistance received from government | Financial capital | Fully |
MARKET PRESENCE | |||
| EC6 | Policy, practices and proportion of spending on locally based suppliers at significant locations of operation | Social capital | Fully |
| EC7 | Procedures for local hiring and proportion of senior management hired from the local community at significant locations of operation | Human capital | Partially |
INDIRECT ECONOMIC IMPACT | |||
| EC8 | Development and impact of infrastructure investments and services provided primarily for public benefit through commercial, in-kind or pro-bono engagement | Financial capital, Social capital | Fully |
| Environmental performance indicators | |||
Management approach | Natural capital | Fully | |
MATERIALS | |||
| EN1 | Materials used by weight or volume | Natural capital | Fully |
ENERGY | |||
| EN4 | Indirect energy consumption by primary source | Natural capital | 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 | Natural capital | Fully |
| EN7 | Initiatives to reduce indirect energy consumption and reductions achieved | Natural capital | Fully |
WATER | |||
| EN8 | Total water withdrawal by source | Natural capital | Fully |
| EN9 | Water sources significantly affected by withdrawal of water | Natural capital | Fully |
| EN10 | Percentage and total volume of water recycled and reused | Natural capital | 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 | Natural capital | 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 | Natural capital | Fully |
| EN13 | Habitats protected or restored | Natural capital | Fully |
| EN14 | Strategies, current actions and future plans for managing impacts on biodiversity | Natural capital | Fully |
| EN15 | Number of Red List species with habitats in areas affected by operations | Natural capital | Fully |
EMISSIONS, EFFLUENTS AND WASTE | |||
| EN16 | Total direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight | Natural capital | Fully |
| EN17 | Other relevant indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight | Natural capital | Fully |
| EN18 | Initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reductions achieved | Natural capital | Partially |
| EN21 | Total water discharge by quality and destination | Natural capital | Fully |
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES | |||
| EN26 | Initiatives to mitigate environmental impacts of products and services, and extent of impact mitigation | Natural capital: new legislation in 2013, Natural capital: Booysendal drainpipe malfunction | Partially |
COMPLIANCE | |||
| EN28 | Monetary value of significant fines and total number of non-monetary sanctions for non-compliance with environmental laws and regulations | Natural capital: new legislation in 2013, Natural capital: Booysendal drainpipe malfunction | Fully |
| Social performance: Labour practices and decent work performance indicators | |||
Management approach | Social capital | Fully | |
EMPLOYMENT | |||
| LA1 | Total workforce by employment type, employment contract and region; broken down by gender | Five-year sustainability review, Human capital | Fully |
| LA2 | Total number and rate of employee turnover by age group, gender and region | Five-year sustainability review, Human capital | Partially |
| LA3 | Benefits provided to full-time employees that are not provided to temporary or part-time employees, by major operations | Human capital | Fully |
LABOUR/MANAGEMENT RELATIONS | |||
| LA4 | Percentage of employees covered by collective bargaining agreements | Human capital | Fully |
| LA5 | Minimum notice period(s) regarding significant operational changes, including whether it is specified in collective agreements | Human capital | Fully |
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY | |||
Management approach | Human capital | Fully | |
| 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 | Human capital | Fully |
| LA7 | Rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days, and absenteeism, and number of work-related fatalities by region | Five-year sustainability review, Human capital | Fully |
| LA9 | Health and safety topics covered in formal agreements with trade unions | Five-year sustainability review | 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 | Human capital, Human capital: training and development | 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 | Human capital | Partially |
| Human rights performance indicators | |||
Management approach | Human capital | Partially | |
NON-DISCRIMINATION | |||
| HR4 | Total number of incidents of discrimination and corrective actions taken | Human capital | 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 | Human capital | Fully |
| Society performance indicators | |||
Management approach | Social capital | Partially | |
LOCAL COMMUNITIES | |||
| SO1 | Nature, scope, and effectiveness of any programs and practices that assess and manage the impacts of operations on communities, including entering, operating, and exiting | Social capital | Fully |
| SO9 | Operations with significant potential or actual negative impacts on local communities | Social capital | Fully |
| SO10 | Prevention and mitigation measures implemented in operations with significant potential or actual negative impacts on local communities | Social capital | Fully |
COMPLIANCE | |||
| SO8 | Monetary value of significant fines and total number of non-monetary sanctions for non-compliance with laws and regulations | Manufactured capital | Fully |
| Product responsibility performance indicators | |||
Management approach | Manufactured capital | 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 | Manufactured capital | 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 | Manufactured capital | 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 | Manufactured capital | 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 | Manufactured capital | Fully |
MARKETING COMMUNICATION | |||
| PR6 | Programmes for adherence to laws, standards and voluntary codes related to marketing communications, including advertising, promotion and sponsorship | Manufactured capital | 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 | Manufactured capital | Fully |
CUSTOMER PRIVACY | |||
| PR8 | Total number of substantiated complaints regarding breaches of customer privacy and losses of customer data | Manufactured capital | Fully |
COMPLIANCE | |||
| PR9 | Monetary value of significant fines for non-compliance with laws and regulations concerning the provision and use of products and services | Manufactured capital | Fully |
