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Safety & Sustainable Development

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• Governance
  • Principles of corporate governance and structure
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  • Disclosure of management approach
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Regulation and mineral legislation
• Enviroment
• People
• Society
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Anglo American Platinum Limited (Amplats) engages with a wide cross-section of stakeholders, including employees, investors, suppliers, contractors, the government and communities. A full list of our stakeholders and how we interact with them is included on page 122. Generally, we are of the view that our management of stakeholder relations is good.

We engage our stakeholders on sustainability matters in a number of different ways and not as a collective. Key forums for engaging with stakeholders are as follows, for each stakeholder sector

• Employees – Through the partnership structures in place with organised labour and through internal meetings and committees, eg the Transformation Committee, ‘performance road shows’ and leadership communication forums.
• Suppliers – Through one-on-one meetings, supplier questionnaires, facility audits in some instances and in 2009 through a supplier conference where sustainability issues specifically were discussed.
• Communities – Each operation has a community engagement forum in place. Twice a year the CEO has a stakeholder engagement forum in both the North West and Limpopo provinces to discuss sustainability-related issues affecting local communities, business people and government.
• Government – Our government relations department engages with the various levels of government on key sustainability and related issues across the different departments responsible for mining regulation and compliance
• Non-governmental organisations – Forums exist with key non-governmental organisations, such as the South African Human Rights Commission and Benchmarks, to discuss sustainability-related issues.

Material sustainable development issues raised by these stakeholders are extracted by reviewing minutes and records of engagements; discussing sustainability issues with the functions responsible for the respective engagements to prioritise issues raised; and having representatives from the safety, health and environmental and sustainable development (SD) departments attending key engagements, for instance the ‘SD in Supply Chain’ conference with suppliers.

The list of material issues we identify through our materiality assessment process is not specifically discussed with stakeholders for their final input and comment prior to finalisation. We have chosen, rather, to use an external review panel. The purpose of this panel is to review the report’s materiality, inclusiveness and responsiveness, guided by the AA1000 assurance standard.

We are reviewing the Company’s stakeholder engagement strategy. The consulting firm, G3 Solutions, was appointed in October 2009 to evaluate our stakeholder engagement processes and to advise on how the Company can improve its stakeholder engagement.