Safety

The Group’s fatal injury frequency rate improved from 0.20 in the June quarter to 0.15 in the September quarter. Despite this improvement six fatalities occurred during the quarter at the South Africa region. Two fatalities were seismic-related in one accident, two fatalities were due to gravity falls of ground, with the remaining two fatalities the result of a tramming accident and drilling into a misfire.

Together with the improved fatal injury frequency rate there were other significant achievements during the quarter. KDC once again achieved one million fatality free shifts, and Agnew and Damang reported zero lost day injuries. The lost day injury frequency rate, however, regressed from 4.86 to 4.95 and the days lost frequency rate regressed from 201 to 223.

The strategy of engineering out the safety-related risks in the Group and ensuring compliance to standards and codes of practice continues to be core to improving the safety environment.

Definitions

Lost Day Injury (LDI) takes into account any injury occurring in the workplace where a person is unable to attend a full shift due to his injury at any time following the injury.

Days Lost takes into account the number of days lost due to injuries recorded.