| 2008 Target |
Achieved |
| Health & safety |
|
| Zero injuries and illnesses |
No |
| Human resources |
|
| Continued delivery of leadership programmes across all sites |
Yes |
| Deliver a common Rio Tinto Coal Australia training system to improve employee skills development |
Yes |
| Improve reporting of employee diversity |
Yes |
| Continue to build a culture where everyone feels proud to be part of the business and is valued for their contributions and commitment to personal and business success |
Yes |
| Continue implementation of the Rio Tinto Coal Australia Indigenous employment strategy with specific focus on Clermont Mine |
Yes |
| Increase diversity of our workforce by targeting people from non-traditional mining roles |
Yes |
| Community relations |
|
| Establish a community consultative committee for Kestrel Mine |
No |
| Audit against the Rio Tinto communities standard, incorporating community input, carried out at each operation before the end of 2009 |
Yes |
| Document and report amount of funding leveraged through community development funds |
Yes |
| Use results of Hunter Valley and Clermont socio-economic baselines to update community relations plans at each site |
Yes |
| Document and report number of employees participating in Rio Tinto Coal Australia funded community development activities |
Yes |
| Execute land access agreements with the Wangan jagalingou people for Clermont and Blair Athol mines, with Kangoulu people for Kestrel Mine and the Wiri people for Hail Creek Mine |
Yes |
| Establish Aboriginal community development funds at Blair Athol and Clermont mines and Kestrel Mine |
Yes |
| Execute cultural heritage management agreement with Kangoulu people at Kestrel Mine |
Yes |
| Establish three year Aboriginal cultural heritage assessment buffer at all operating mines |
Yes |
| Environment |
|
| New South Wales freshwater use 43 litres per tonne of product coal |
Yes |
| Queensland freshwater use no more than 495 litres per tonne of product coal |
No |
| New South Wales land rehabilitation 160 hectares |
Yes |
| New South Wales land disturbance 158 hectares |
No |
| Queensland land rehabilitation 74 hectares |
Yes |
| Queensland land disturbance 344 hectares |
Yes |
| Achieve zero category III and IV environmental incidents at New South Wales and Queensland operations |
No - the classification to record these incidents has changed |
| Review and update the Hunter Valley Operations mine life plan in accordance with the Rio Tinto standard |
Yes |
| Undertake a Blair Athol Mine Closure Definition Study |
No |
| New South Wales total energy use 0.013 GJ per tonne of equivalent material moved |
No |
| Queensland total energy use 0.011 GJ per tonne of equivalent material moved |
Yes |
| New South Wales greenhouse gas emissions 1.40 kg CO2 per tonne of equivalent material moved |
No |
| Queensland greenhouse gas emissions 1.52 kg CO2 per tonne of equivalent of material moved |
Yes |