Glossary
- ABET
- Adult Basic Education and Training, aimed at improving literacy levels and providing learners with nationally recognised qualifications
- AIDS
- Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, a disease of the immune system caused by HIV infection. HIV & AIDS pose serious challenges for the government and the industry, as South Africa is one the countries worst affected by the Pandemic
- ART
- Anti-retroviral therapy, treatment of retroviruses especially HIV, usually involving a cocktail of drugs
- BEE
- Black Economic Empowerment, a socioeconomic process that contributes to the economic transformation of the country and increases the number of HDSAs (historically disadvantaged South Africans) participating in the economy
- CDM
- The Clean Development Mechanism is an arrangement under the Kyoto Protocol allowing industrialised countries with a GHG reduction commitment to invest in projects that reduce emissions in developing countries as an alternative to more expensive emission reductions in their own countries
- CDP
- Carbon Disclosure Project is an independent not-for-profit organisation which acts as an intermediary between shareholders and corporations on all climate change related issues, providing primary climate change data from the world’s largest corporations, to the global market place
- CSI
- Corporate social investment
- DMR
- Department of Mineral Resources
- DoL
- Department of Labour, South Africa
- DOT
- Directly observed treatment
- DSM
- Demand Side Management
- DTI
- Department of Trade and Industry
- DWEA
- Department of Water Environmental Affairs, South Africa
- EETF
- Employee Empowerment Trust Fund
- EMP
- Environmental Management Plan
- EMS
- Environmental Management System
- ESG
- Environmental, social and governance
- ETFs
- Exchange traded funds
- FIIR
- A total injury incidence rate per 200 000 man hours worked
- GHG
- Greenhouse gas
- GRI
- Global Reporting Initiative is a multistakeholder governed institution collaborating to provide the global standards in sustainability reporting. These standards set out the principles and indicators that organisations can use to measure and report their economic, environmental, and social performance
- HDP
- Historically disadvantaged persons
- HDSAs
- Historically disadvantaged South Africans, all persons and groups who have been previously discriminated against on the basis of race, gender and disability. Defined by the MPRDA
- HIRA
- Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
- HIV
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus which causes AIDS by infecting the helper T cells of the immune system. The HIV virus is transmitted through blood or bodily secretions
- IDP
- Integrated development plans provided for by the Local Government Municipal Systems Act. (NO. 32 of 2000)
- ILO
- International Labour Organisation
- IPA
- International Platinum Association
- ISO
- Published in 1996 by the International Organisation for 14001 Environmental Standardisation, it specifies the actual requirements for an environmental management system (EMS)
- JSE
- JSE Limited, formerly known as the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa
- King III
- King III is the abbreviated name for the King Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa published 2010 in South Africa
- KPI
- Key performance indicator
- LED
- Local economic development
- LRA
- Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995, South Africa
- LSE
- London Stock Exchange
- LTIIR
- Lost Time Injury Incidence Rate measured per 200 000 man hours worked
- Mining Charter
- The Broad-Based Social-Economic Empowerment Charter for the South African Mining Industry. The goal of the charter is to bring about an industry that reflects the promise of a non racial South Africa
- MHSA
- Mine Health and Safety Act 29 of 1996
- MPRDA
- Minerals and Petroleum Resources Development Act 28 0f 2002
- MQA
- Mining Qualifications Authority, a Sector Education Training Authority for the Mining and Minerals Sector. Its mission is to facilitate and promote human resources development in the sector
- NGOs
- Non-governmental organisations
- NIHL
- Noise induced hearing loss
- NUM
- National Union of Mineworkers, the largest collective bargaining agent representing workers in the mining, energy and construction industries in South Africa
- PGI
- Platinum Guild International
- PGM
- Platinum group metals, including copper, nickel, palladium, rhodium and gold
- PPE
- Personal protective equipment
- OLD
- Occupational lung disease
- RIIR
- Reportable Injury Incidence Rate: injuries resulting in 14 or more days absence from work per 200 000 man hours worked
- ROM
- Run of mine
- SETA
- Mining Sector Education Training Authority, South Africa
- SLPs
- Social and labour plans aimed at promoting employment and advancement of the social and economic welfare of all South Africans whilst ensuring economic growth and socioeconomic development. Stipulated in the MPRDA
- SRI
- Index Socially responsible investment index of the JSE
- STIs
- Sexually transmitted infections
- TB
- Pulmonary tuberculosis
- TSF
- Tailings Storage Facility
- VCT
- Voluntary counselling and testing, a programme aimed at encouraging voluntary HIV testing in order for individuals to know their status
- VRT
- Virgin Rock Temperature
NORTHAM SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2010