Goals & targets
Target met or significant progress against target
Considerable improvement
Target not met or behind group trajectory
Positive trend
Negative trend
Results variable over time
| Rio Tinto | Results | 2007 Performance comment | Trend |
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| Environment targets | |||
| A 4% reduction in total greenhouse gas emissions, per tonne of product, between 2003 and 2008 |
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0.7 per cent decrease in greenhouse gas emissions per tonne of product compared to 2003 |
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| A 5% reduction in energy used, per tonne of product, between 2003 and 2008 |
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0.7 per cent decrease in energy used per tonne of product compared to 2003 |
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| A 10% reduction in freshwater withdrawn, per tonne of product, between 2003 and 2008 |
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4.1 per cent decrease in freshwater withdrawn per tonne of product compared to 2003 |
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| Safety targets | |||
| Zero fatalities |
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Three contractors were fatally injured at Rio Tinto managed sites. One metal merchant was fatally injured at an Alcan Engineered Products site in December |
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| A 50% reduction in lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR) between 2003 and 2008 |
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43 per cent improvement in LTIFR compared to 2003 |
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| A 50% reduction in all injury frequency rate (AIFR) between 2003 and 2008 |
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40 per cent improvement in AIFR compared to 2003 |
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| Health targets | |||
| A 40% reduction in the rate of new cases of occupational illness (per 10,000 employees) between 2003 and 20082 |
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81 per cent decrease in new cases of occupational illness (per 10,000 employees) compared to 2004 |
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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 2003 and 20082 |
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5.8 per cent decrease in employees (per 10,000) exposed to more than 85 decibels in the workplace |
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| Employment goals | |||
| Increase the representation of women in senior management to 20% by 2009 |
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7 per cent of current senior management and 22 per cent of identified "future leaders" are women |
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| Increase the proportion of women in the graduate intake by 50% from a 2004 baseline |
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50 per cent increase in the proportion of women in the graduate intake compared to 2004 |
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| Community relations targets | |||
| Site managed assessments (SMA) completed at all high risk sites by end of 2008, or within two years of acquisition1 |
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7 of 18 high risk SMAs were commenced or completed in 2007 |
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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 2007 |
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1Target changed in 2007 to reflect a risk based approach to SMA scheduling
2Target baseline year was mistated in 2007 Annual report
Target met or significant progress against target
Considerable improvement
Target not met or behind group trajectory
Positive trend
Results variable over time
| Alcan | Results | 2007 Performance comment | Trend |
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| Environment targets | |||
| All new sites (acquired or commissioned) required to be ISO 14001 certified within two years |
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All sites acquired prior to 2005 are ISO 14001 certified |
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| A 10% reduction in on-site greenhouse gas emissions, per tonne of product, between 2005 and 2010 |
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4 per cent reduction in on-site greenhouse gas emission per tonne of product compared to 2005 |
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| Safety targets | |||
| All new sites (acquired or commissioned) required to be OHSAS 18001 certified within two years |
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All sites acquired prior to 2005 are OHSAS 18001 certified |
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| Recordable case rate of 1.06 per 200,000 hours worked |
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0.82 recordable case rate, a 29 per cent improvement from 2006 |
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| Lost time injury / illness case rate of 0.26 per 200,000 hours worked |
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0.28 lost time injury / illness rate, a 28 per cent improvement from 2006 |
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| Serious injury case rate of 0.21 per 1,000,000 hours worked |
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0.23 serious injury case rate, no change from 2006 |
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