2008 Targets
Health & safety
- Zero injuries and illnesses.
Human resources
- Continued delivery of leadership programmes across all sites
- Deliver a common RTCA training system to improve employee skills development
- Improve reporting of employee diversity
- Continue to build a culture where everyone feels proud to be part of the business and is valued for their contributions and commitment to personal and business success
- Continue implementation of the RTCA Indigenous Employment Strategy with specific focus on Clermont Mine
- Increase diversity of our workforce by targeting people from non traditional mining roles.
Community relations
- Establish a community consultative committee for the Kestrel Mine
- Audit against the Rio Tinto Communities standard, incorporating community input, carried out at each operation before the end of 2009
- Document and report amount of funding leveraged through community development funds
- Use results of Hunter Valley and Clermont socio economic baselines to update community relations plans at each site
- Document and report number of employees participating in RTCA funded community development activities
- Execute land access agreements with Wangan Jagalingou people for Clermont and Blair Athol mines, and with Kangoulu people for Kestrel Mine
- Establish Aboriginal community development funds at Blair Athol/Clermont and Kestrel mines
- Execute cultural heritage management agreement with Kangoulu people at Kestrel mine
- Establish 3 year Aboriginal cultural heritage assessment buffer at all operating mines.
Environment
- Coal & Allied freshwater use 43 litres per tonne of product coal
- RTCA Queensland freshwater use 430 litres per tonne of product coal
- Coal & Allied land rehabilitation 160 hectares
- Coal & Allied land disturbance 158 hectares
- RTCA Queensland land rehabilitation 74 hectares
- RTCA Queensland land disturbance 344 hectares
- Achieve zero category III and IV environmental incidents at Coal & Allied and RTCA Queensland operations
- Review and update the Hunter Valley Operations mine life plan in accordance with the Rio Tinto Standard
- Undertake a Blair Athol Mine Closure Definition Study
- Coal & Allied total energy use 0.013 GJ per tonne of equivalent material moved
- RTCA Queensland total energy use 0.11 GJ per tonne of equivalent material moved
- Coal & Allied greenhouse gas emissions 1.40 kg CO2 per tonne of equivalent material moved
- RTCA Queensland greenhouse gas emissions 1.52 kg CO2 per tonne of equivalent material moved.
