Non-financial KPIs
Xstrata publishes a separate Sustainability Report, which includes a full set of indicators, using the Global Reporting Initiative G3 guidelines. The report is available from the Sustainability section of our website or as a hard copy on request.
Employees Turnover and Diversity (%)
Employee turnover is a measure of our success in retaining our people. Turnover includes voluntary resignations, redundancies and performance-related terminations. Turnover and diversity data is calculated as a percentage of total permanent employees (excluding contractors) and is shown for all available reporting periods.
Employees Training
Ongoing training and education is conducted both in the workplace and at external institutions. Both training hours and training spend are shown as an average per employee including contractors. Data is shown for all available reporting periods.
Health Occupational Health
Xstrata’s operations aim to identify, assess and control occupational health hazards and, where practicable, to eliminate work-related diseases. The charts show the number of new occupational illness cases reported by employees and contractors, together with 2008 illnesses by type.
Safety Injury Frequency Rates
We believe that every work-related incident, illness and injury is preventable. Total recordable injuries include lost-time injuries, medical treatment injuries and restricted work injuries, providing a more complete measure of safety performance. The total recordable injury frequency rate and lost-time injury frequency rates are reported per million hours worked and include contractors.
Corporate social involvement ($m)
Xstrata sets aside a minimum of 1% of annual Group profit before tax to fund initiatives that benefit local communities (2008: 1.6%). The charts show the cash amount set aside for initiatives in each geographic region in which Xstrata operates and by category. In 2008, Xstrata’s businesses also calculated the total value of in-kind contributions (e.g. equipment, management time, etc.)
Environmental incidents
Xstrata’s operations record environmental incidents according to severity. Our target is to achieve zero category 3, 4 or 5 incidents, representing significant, serious or disastrous incidents. Category 3 incidents cause moderate, reversible environmental impact and require moderate remediation. No category 4 or 5 incidents have ever occurred.
Greenhouse gases (CO2 equivalents million tonnes)
Greenhouse gas emissions are measured as CO2 equivalent tonnes. Xstrata's main sources of GHGs are from electricity used and from methane found in underground coal seams in some regions. We seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through improved energy efficiency and by using coal-seam methane to generate power wherever possible.
Energy usage (petajoules PJ)
Energy is measured in petajoules and includes electricity usage and direct energy sources. Efficiency and energy consumption reductions drive both cost savings and emissions reductions. We aim to progressively improve energy efficiency, and measure energy intensity per tonne of product.
Water (megalitres-ML)
Effective water management and conservation is critical to Xstrata’s operations, a number of which are located in arid regions. Xstrata measures total fresh water used and water recycled. We seek to reduce fresh water extracted and progressively increase the amount of water that is recycled.
- * Acquisitions included from date of completion
- † Restated due to revised total employee numbers
- ‡ Restated following further research into Xstrata’s carbon footprint and third-party verification
- ‡‡ 2006 data excludes Falconbridge acquisition
