Workforce by employment type, contract and region.

Annual report
Employees

Employee turnover broken down by age group, gender, and region.

Local sustainable development reports

Business units collect information on employee turnover for purposes of recruitment, retention and diversity planning and strategy development. Data collection surrounding age and gender complies with any relevant local legislation.

This information is not reported at the Group level as we have a variety of data collection systems implemented by individual Business Units across the Group. This means that data aggregation is not currently possible. We are currently improving our data collection approach in this area and will be able to report on this indicator in the medium term, with some limitations due to legislation in the environments we work within.

Employees covered by collective bargaining agreements.

Rio Tinto’s Human Rights guidance is applicable at all sites and covers freedom of association in relation to union membership. 
In Australia 10% of the workforce is covered by a collective instrument.
We do not intend to collect this information Group wide as there are many jurisdictions in which we operate where it is not legal to ask about an employee's membership of unions or other representative organisations.  

Human rights policy
Human rights
Employment policy
Employees
United Nations Global Compact Communication on progress

Minimum notice period(s) regarding significant operational changes.

The company seeks to provide employees with reasonable periods of notice. However, as practice and legislation on minimum notice periods vary considerably between regions there is no common Group wide standard.

Employees

Rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days and absenteeism, and number of work related fatalities, by region.

Safety
Health

We do not report absenteeism data at the Group level as we have a variety of data collection systems implemented by individual Business Units across the Group. This means that data aggregation is not currently possible. We are currently improving our data collection approach in this area and will be able to report on this indicator in the medium term.

Education, training, counselling, prevention, and risk control programmes in place for assisting workforce members, their families or community members regarding serious diseases.

Health

Average hours of training per year per employee by employee category.

Employees
Local sustainable development reports

We do not report statistics on training hours and expenditure at the Group level as we have a variety of data collection systems implemented by individual Business Units across the Group. This means that data aggregation is not currently possible. We are currently improving our data collection approach in this area and will be able to report on this indicator in the medium term.

Composition of governance bodies and breakdown of employees by indicators of diversity.

The way we work (PDF 85 KB)

Rio Tinto employs on the basis of job requirements and does not discriminate on the grounds of age, ethnic or social origin, gender, sexual orientation, politics or religion. 
In many jurisdictions in which we operate it is not legal to ask about an employee's age, minority group or other indicators of diversity. Therefore, it is not intended to collect this information for reporting purposes.

Who we are
Corporate governance
Employees
United Nations Global Compact Communication on progress

Ratio of basic salary of men to women by employment category.

The way we work (PDF 85 KB)
Employees
Remuneration report
United Nations Global Compact Communication on progress

Rio Tinto employs on the basis of job requirements and does not discriminate on grounds of age, ethnic or social origin, gender, sexual orientation, politics or religion.

We do not report statistics on the ratio of basic salary of men to women by employment category at the Group level outside of the senior leadership group as we have a variety of data collection systems implemented by individual Business Units across the Group. This means that data aggregation is not currently possible. We are currently improving our data collection approach in this area and will be able to report on this indicator in the medium term.

Approach for identifying, preparing for, and responding to emergency situations affecting employees, communities or the environment.

Our approach includes emergency response plans, disaster management plans and responding teams at each of our locations, with a central corporate crisis response committee. Disaster management and recovery plans are integrated with ISO14001 environmental management systems. Response teams carry out regular training exercises on local risks and events, often involving local community and external emergency services organisations. Plans at all levels are regularly reviewed and audited, both internally and externally, to ensure any emerging threats to a location are taking into consideration

New cases of occupational disease by type.

Health