A Healthier Workforce

WE ARE COMMITTED TO HONOURING OUR HEALTH AND SAFETY VALUES AND SUSTAINING AN ENVIRONMENT THAT PROMOTES THE SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF OUR EMPLOYEES AND THEIR FAMILIES, CONTRACTORS AND THE COMMUNITIES WHERE WE OPERATE.

Our Health Performance

Highlights

• We received a commendation from the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC) for leadership in businesses’ fight against pandemics.
• HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis
• We offer antiretroviral treatment (ART) to employees for life.
• We have 1,349 patients on ART and 498 patients on our wellness programme.
• We launched an HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis Steering Committee championed by our Chief Operating Officer, Mahomed Seedat.
• We finalised our Workplace HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis Strategy.
• Reduced NIHL
• In 2010, we have reduced our new diagnosed Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) cases to 40 cases, a year-on-year reduction of 11.1%.

Challenges

• Deterioration of the health of our employees and their reduced productivity due to the impact of HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis amongst our workforce.
• - HIV remains our leading cause of inservice deaths.
• - The number of HIV-related deaths decreased by 25% to 88 employees.
• - ART defaulters increased to 12% from 10% in 2009.
• - Resistance of employees to enrol in Wellness and ART programmes.
• - Motivation of our Peer educators to remain actively engaged.
• - 528 employees and nineteen contractors were diagnosed with Tuberculosis including two cases of extreme drug resistant Tuberculosis.
• Behavioural and technological obstacles to further reduce NIHL cases.

Focus in 2011

• It remains difficult to measure the success of health related initiatives. We hope to improve our understanding of our health interventions.
• We aim to reduce defaulters from our ART and wellness programmes.

The health of our workforce has a direct impact on our business results and is therefore significant to thesuccess of the Company. We continue to invest in the health of our employees to ensure a productiveworkforce, attract and retain employees and manage our compliance and reputational risks.

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