Glossary of terms – Sustainable Development

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

• United Nations Global Compact – is a United Nations initiative to encourage businesses worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on their implementation. The Global Compact is a principle-based framework for businesses, stating 10 principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption. www.unglobalcompact.org
• Global Reporting Initiative (“GRI”) – produces one of the world’s most prevalent standards for sustainability reporting. www.globalreporting.org
• ICMM (International Council on Mining and Metals) – CEO-led organisation of mining companies that seeks to continually entrench best practice with regard to sustainable development and to provide a platform for member companies to share experiences. www.icmm.com

HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELLBEING

• Total Recordable Injury Frequency Rate (“TRIFR”) TRIFR = (Fatalities + Lost Time Injuries + Restricted Work Injuries + Medically Treated Injuries) x 1,000,000/number of hours worked.
• A Lost Time Injury (“LTI”) is a work-related injury resulting in the employee or contractor being unable to attend work for a period of one or more days after the day of the injury. The employee or contractor is unable to perform any of his/her duties.
• A Restricted Work Injury (“RWI”) is a work-related injury sustained by an employee or contractor which requires medical treatment and results in the employee or contractor being unable to perform one or more of their routine functions for a full working day, from the day after the injury occurred. The employee or contractor can still perform some of his/her duties.
• A Medically Treated Injury (“MTI”) is a work-related injury sustained by an employee or contractor which does not incapacitate that employee and who, after having received medical treatment, is deemed fit to immediately resume his/her normal duties on the next calendar day, immediately following the treatment or re-treatment.
• OHSAS 18001 – An international voluntary standard for occupational health and safety management systems. As with other standards, it is based on the identification and control of risks and monitoring of business performance against these.
• Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (“NIHL”) – is a disorder that results from exposure to high-intensity sound, especially over a long period of time.
• Silicosis – is a form of occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline silica dust, and is marked by inflammation and scarring in the form of nodular lesions in the upper lobes of the lungs.
• Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease (“COAD”) – refers to chronic bronchitis and emphysema, a pair of commonly co‑existing diseases of the lungs in which the airways become narrowed.
• Highly active antiretroviral therapy (“HAART”) – Treatment of people infected with HIV, to suppress the growth of HIV, the retrovirus responsible for AIDS. The standard treatment consists of a combination of at least three drugs.

ENVIRONMENT

• ISO 14001 – an international voluntary standard for environmental management systems. This is one standard in the ISO 14000 series of international standards on environmental management.
• Environmental incidents – these are incidents that are classified in accordance with a system designed by Gold Fields (based on the GRI definition) that classifies the incident based on its severity. Incidents are classified as follows:
  • Not classified – Incidents below the level 1 classification threshold and with no environmental impact: No classification or administrative action required, but it can be logged.
  • Level 1 environmental incident – Incident that involves minor non-conformance that results in minimal or no environmental impact.
  • Level 2 environmental incident – Incident that involves minor non-conformance that results in short-term, limited and non‑ongoing adverse environmental impacts.
  • Level 3 environmental incident – Incident that results in limited non-conformance or non-compliance. The non‑compliance results in ongoing (as per the timeframes defined in Gold Fields Guidelines), but limited environmental impact.
  • Level 4 environmental incident – Incident resulting in significant non-conformance or non-compliance with significant short-term or medium-term environmental impact. Such events are likely to be operation-threatening in isolation and cumulatively (i.e. if the incidents are repeated) is very likely to threaten a licence to operate or social licence to operate. In addition, such incidents also have the potential to cause reputational damage.
  • Level 5 environmental incident – Incident that results in major non-conformance or non-compliance. The non-compliance or non-conformance results in either catastrophic short-term impact or medium to long-term environmental impact. Company or operation threatening implications and potential major damage to the Company’s reputation are almost inevitable.

WATER MANAGEMENT

• Water withdrawal: The sum of all water drawn into Gold Fields’ operations from all sources for any use/impact.
• Recycled water: Processing used water/waste water through the same or another cycle at the same facility. The water/waste water is treated before being recycled and reused.
• Reused water: Water/waste water that is reused without treatment at the same facility or at another of Gold Fields’ operations.
• Percentage of water recycled or reused: Water recycled/reused/total water used in process 5 x 100.
• Total water used in process: Water withdrawal + water recycled/reused.
• Acid mine drainage (“AMD”) or acid rock drainage (“ARD”), collectively called acid drainage (“AD”) is formed when certain sulphide minerals in rocks are exposed to oxidising conditions, such as the presence of oxygen, combined with water. AD can occur under natural conditions or as a result of the sulphide minerals that are exposed to oxidation during mining or during storage in waste rock dumps, ore stockpiles or tailings dams. The acidic water that forms usually contains iron and other metals if they are contained in the host rock.

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AND MATERIAL STEWARDSHIP

International Cyanide Management Code (“ICMC”) – is a voluntary industry programme for the manufacture, transport and use of cyanide in gold production. It focuses on the safe management of cyanide and cyanidation mill tailings and leach solutions. Companies that adopt the Code must have their mining operations that use cyanide to recover gold audited by an independent third party to determine the status of Code implementation, and must use certified manufacturers and transporters.

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Socio-economic development spend (“SED”) – Payments made to communities and community investments that are not inherent to the functioning of the operation. This may include payments related to infrastructure, health and well-being, education and training, local environment, scholarships and donations. This definition is aligned to the World Gold Council (“WGC”) definition.

Host communities – are identified by each operation for the purpose of securing our mining licences – both legal and social. These communities are directly affected by and have an expectation regarding our activities.

Local Economic Development (“LED”) – refers to initiatives and monies disbursed to uplift socio-economic conditions in the communities in which we operate, in particular job creation and enterprise development.

OUR PEOPLE

HDSA – Historically disadvantaged South Africans.

ENERGY AND CARBON MANAGEMENT

Greenhouse gas emission (“GHG emission”) – Gas which absorbs outgoing terrestrial radiation, such as methane, CFCs and carbon dioxide.

Scope 1 carbon dioxide equivalent (“CO₂e”) emissions – are those directly occurring from sources that are owned or controlled by the institution, including: on-site stationary combustion of fossil fuels; mobile combustion of fossil fuels by company-owned/controlled vehicles; and fugitive emissions. Fugitive emissions result from intentional or unintentional releases of GHGs.

Scope 2 CO₂e emissions – are indirect emissions generated in the production of electricity purchased by the company.

Scope 3 CO₂e emissions – are all the other indirect emissions that are a consequence of the activities of the institution, but occur from sources not owned or controlled by the institution such as commuting, air travel, waste disposal; embodied emissions from extraction, production and transportation of purchased goods; outsourced activities; contractor-owned vehicles; and line loss from electricity transmission and distribution.

Equivalent carbon dioxide (“CO₂e”) – measures for describing how much global warming a given type and amount of greenhouse gas may cause, using the functionally equivalent amount or concentration of carbon dioxide (“CO₂”) as the reference.