| Safety |
| Objectives for 2004 | Review of 2004 | Objectives for 2005 |
| Long-term objective to eliminate all accidents | Significant achievement towards this objective with
the fatal injury frequency rate declining by 34%, and the lost time accident rate falling by 26% during 2004 | Long-term objective remains to eliminate
all accidents |
| Reduce the LTIFR by 20% year-on-year | LTIFR declined by 26% from 2003 to 2004 | Reduce LTIFR the by 20% year-on-year |
| Transition across the group to using leading indicators (as opposed to lagging indicators)
as a management tool | Progress made with many operations implementing
a process to monitor leading indicators | Much work remains to be done to move
to using leading indicators (as opposed to lagging indicators) as a management tool |
| Further implementation of the fall of ground campaign in South Africa | Good progress was made in 2004.
(See case study: Control of mining-induced seismicity in the South Africa region) | Further implementation of the fall of
ground campaign |
| Further implementation of Du Pont SMAT system at the South African operations | Some 9,000 employees trained on SMAT
techniques, with 6,000 audits in 2004 | Peer-on-peer SMAT approach to be
implemented in 2005 |
| Health |
| Objectives for 2004 | Review of 2004 | Objectives for 2005 |
| Continue to provide medical surveillance examinations in South Africa, and improve on
those currently undertaken in East and West Africa | South African
medical surveillance remains state-of the-art. Increasingly medical
surveillance under-taken at other operations | Improved medical surveillance to be
implemented in Ghana |
| Continue efforts to minimise noise in the workplace and further reduce the number of new cases of NIHL | All rockdrills on SA operations now silenced as well
as 98% of critical fans | Establish leading indicators to manage progress in meeting the South African Mine
Health and Safety Council's targets on NIHL and silicosis. These targets
are: |
| Continue to improve dust measurement and
control, and reduce the incidence of OLD by 50%
| Improvements in dust measurement and control being
implemented. Improved measurement
has resulted in better understanding and allowed
controls to be implemented. There is still a past legacy of high silica exposure |
- OLD:
- by 2008, 95% of all silica exposure measurements will be below the occupational exposure
limit of 0,1mg/m3; and
- by 2013, no new cases of silicosis will occur, in previously unexposed employees.
- NIHL:
- by 2013, noise emissions of all equipment will be below 110dB(A); and
- by 2008, no deterioration in hearing, greater then 10%, will occur in noise-exposed
employees.
|
| Monitor and manage the incidence of TB, including undertaking
far-reaching research projects through Aurum | Efforts to monitor and manage the incidence of TB
continued. However, increased levels of HIV and earlier detection have exacerbated TB levels
to the highest levels detected yet | Continue to monitor and manage the
incidence of TB. Mobile DDR clinics to be commissioned in 2005. Aurum to lead
Gates Foundation on TB prophylaxis |
In our opinion, Selected Data marked in the Report to Society 2004 with this symbol adequately reflect AngloGold Ashanti's performance in all material respects.
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