Protect and preserve our license to operate
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Health |
Reversible health effects of little concern. First aid treatment |
Reversible health effects of concern. Medical treatment |
Severe reversible health effects of concern. Loss time illness |
Irreversible health effects or disabling illness |
Continued overexposure of employees/ communities to toxins or other agents that could lead to major litigation, class action or regulatory intervention |
Safety |
Minor injury/ ies requiring only first aid treatment
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Minor injury/ ies requiring medical treatment and does not lead to restricted duties.
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Loss time injury / multiple such reversible injuries requiring medical treatment
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Single fatality / serious nature and irreversible injury / injuries to employees
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An event that results in more than one fatality; poor fatality record; or continued safety performance significantly below peers that could severely damage reputation or lead to regulatory intervention
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Environment
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Limited damage to minimal area of low significance with promptly reversible impact (typically less than a day)
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Short term environmental impact with short term reversible impact (typically a week)
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Major short term environmental impact with medium term reversible impact (typically a month) Or may result into Category III incident
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Serious long term environmental impact with long term reversible impact (typically 3 months) Or may result into Category IV incident
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Impact that is unconfined and requiring long term recovery leading to major residual environmental damage typically more than 1 year Or may result into Category V incident
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Compliance |
Minor admonition. Non conformance with internal requirement with very low potential for impact
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Minor legal issues, non-compliances and minor penalties
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Major penalties. Breach of regulation, contract, permit or license with potential major fines & litigation
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Significant breaches, significant financial penalties & prosecution of staff / stoppage of business. Multiple litigations
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Absence / expiry / invalidity / potential for revocation of consent to operate which may impact operations of our major assets / going concern
Non compliances which may lead to potential personal liability & prosecution of senior management /Board
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Reputation |
Minor, adverse local public or media attention & complaints. Community compliant resolved via existing site procedures. One off public exposure in local media or word of mouth
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One-off incident. Negative media coverage in local media having impact on reputation of Business Unit
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Extensive negative local industry coverage. Disruption in shareholder confidence over medium term
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Negative media coverage / disruption to client / investor confidence on state / national front. Impact on reputation of company. Public exposure in national media
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Extensive negative publicity in national and international media and long term disruption of investor and stakeholder confidence
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