Goals & targets
Target met or significant progress against target
Considerable improvement
Not reported
Positive trend
Results variable over time
| Target | Results | Comment | Trend |
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| Employment goals | |||
| Increase the representation of women in senior management to 20% by 2009 from a 2004 baseline |
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Women now represent 20% of identified "future leaders" and currently 6% of senior management |
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| Increase the proportion of women in the total graduate intake by 50% from a 2004 baseline |
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Women represent 39% of the total graduate intake, up 15% from 2004 |
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| Safety targets | |||
| Zero fatalities |
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Three fatalities, compared with two fatalities in 2005 |
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| A 50% reduction in lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR) between 2003 and 2008 |
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11% improvement in LTIFR compared with 2005 |
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| A 50% reduction in all injury frequency rate (AIFR) between 2003 and 2008 |
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18% improvement in AIFR compared with 2005 |
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| Health targets | |||
| Full implementation of occupational health standards |
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96% of operations have implemented our occupational health standards. Corporate offices, projects and new businesses continue to implement the standards |
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| A 40% reduction in the rate of new cases of occupational illness (per 10,000 employees) between 2003 and 2008 |
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A 69% reduction in new cases of illness since 2003 |
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| A 20% reduction in number of employees (per 10,000 employees) exposed to a noise environment of more than 85 decibels between 2004 and 2008 |
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A 1% reduction from a 2004 baseline |
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| Human rights and political involvement targets | |||
| No breaches of Rio Tinto's policies for human rights and political involvement |
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No reported breaches of our policies in 2006 |
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| Community relations targets | |||
| Site managed assessments (SMA) done at all operational sites by the end of 2008 |
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Lessons learned from pilot projects have been applied and will be included in a rollout of the SMA process across the Group in 2006 |
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| Environment targets | |||
| A 10% reduction in freshwater withdrawn, per tonne of product, between 2003 and 2008 since 2003 |
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The freshwater withdrawn efficiency has improved by 11.5% since 2003 |
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| A 5% reduction in energy used, per tonne of product, between 2003 and 2008 |
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Energy efficiency has improved by 2.6% since 2003 but has slipped slightly compared with performance in 2005 |
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| A 4% reduction in total greenhouse gas emissions, per tonne of product, between 2003 and 2008 |
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Greenhouse gas efficiency has improved 0.3% since 2003 but has slipped compared with performance in 20051 |
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Target met or significant progress against target
Considerable improvement
Not reported
Positive trend
Results variable over time