Suppliers
Safe, efficient and innovative suppliers are strategically important to the success of Rio Tinto. Our global statement of business conduct as it relates to the Procurement function, The way we buy reflects how our corporate philosophy meets the operating demands of our business units, while ensuring that we conduct our procurement in a manner that upholds Rio Tinto's values of accountability, respect, teamwork and integrity. For more information see the Rio Tinto Procurement website.
- Commitments
- Results
To pre-qualify as a supplier, business partners generally must be able to demonstrate strong organisational commitments to:
- corporate governance
- health and safety
- human rights and labour practices
- socio-economic welfare of local/indigenous communities
- natural resource conservation and management
- carbon and greenhouse gas emission reduction
- energy and fuel efficiency
- waste minimisation
By collaborating with our partners to obtain sustainable development objectives for each of our business units, we seek to create business relationships that have positive and enduring effects in the developing economies where we operate, build our partner communities' confidence in our reputation, and extend our licence to operate.
As an example, in 2010 Rio Tinto Alcan's two Gladstone (Australia) operations, Boyne Smelters Limited and Yarwun implemented a decontamination and recycling project to achieve a goal of zero waste being sent to landfill by 2014. Working closely with a local partner, these operations have been able to significantly reduce the amount of materials sent to landfill by decontaminating and reusing protective gloves, while recycling filter bags and other oil soaked materials.
