Assurance
Our Corporate Assurance function has accountability and responsibility for providing internal assurance to the management, directors and board committees that our policies, standards and controls are:
- Adequately designed and effective for their intended purpose
- Consistently implemented by all Rio Tinto sites on a timely basis and as designed
- Working effectively
In addition, we have used the independent professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers to assure selected Group level sustainable development performance data across four specific sustainable development risk areas. A statement from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the criteria against which they provided their assurance are available below:
Closure as a component of mine life planning
- Closing a mine does not simply mean shutting down production, rehabilitating the land and walking away. People's livelihoods can be affected, as can the social and environmental programmes established during the life of the mine.
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