GOLD FIELDS - Q1 ended 31 March 2014

Results for the Group

Safety

The Group’s fatality injury frequency rate improved from 0.10 in the December quarter to 0.00 in the March quarter.

The total recordable injury frequency rate (TRIFR)¹ for the Group has regressed from 3.97 in the December quarter to 4.31 in the March quarter.

1	Total Recordable Injury Frequency rate (TRIFR) Group safety metric was introduced in the December quarter. (TRIFR) = (Fatalities + Lost Time Injuries² + Restricted Work Injuries³ + Medically Treated Injuries⁴) x 1,000,000/number of man-hours worked.
2	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 functions.
3	A Restricted Work Injury (RWI) is a work-related injury sustained by an employee or contractor which 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.
4	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.