Goals & targets

 Target met or significant progress against target

 Considerable improvement

 Not reported

 Positive trend

 Results variable over time

Target Results Comment Trend
Employment goals      
Increase the representation of women in senior management to 20% by 2009 from a 2004 baseline

Women now represent 20% of identified "future leaders" and currently 6% of senior management

Increase the proportion of women in the total graduate intake by 50% from a 2004 baseline

Women represent 39% of the total graduate intake, up 15% from 2004

Safety targets      
Zero fatalities

Three fatalities, compared with two fatalities in 2005

A 50% reduction in lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR) between 2003 and 2008

11% improvement in LTIFR compared with 2005

A 50% reduction in all injury frequency rate (AIFR) between 2003 and 2008

18% improvement in AIFR compared with 2005

Health targets      
Full implementation of occupational health standards

96% of operations have implemented our occupational health standards. Corporate offices, projects and new businesses continue to implement the standards

 A 40% reduction in the rate of new cases of occupational illness (per 10,000 employees) between 2003 and 2008

A 69% reduction in new cases of illness since 2003

 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

A 1% reduction from a 2004 baseline

Human rights and political involvement targets      
No breaches of Rio Tinto's policies for human rights and political involvement

No reported breaches of our policies in 2006 

Community relations targets    
Site managed assessments (SMA) done at all operational sites by the end of 2008

Lessons learned from pilot projects have been applied and will be included in a rollout of the SMA process across the Group in 2006

Environment targets    
A 10% reduction in freshwater withdrawn, per tonne of product, between 2003 and 2008 since 2003

The freshwater withdrawn efficiency has improved by 11.5% since 2003

A 5% reduction in energy used, per tonne of product, between 2003 and 2008

Energy efficiency has improved by 2.6% since 2003 but has slipped slightly compared with performance in 2005

A 4% reduction in total greenhouse gas emissions, per tonne of product, between 2003 and 2008

Greenhouse gas efficiency has improved 0.3% since 2003 but has slipped compared with performance in 20051

 Target met or significant progress against target

 Considerable improvement

 Not reported

 Positive trend

 Results variable over time