Occupational safety and health

• Key issues 2006/2007
• Living our values
• Our scorecard
• Review 2006
• Case studies
• Objectives 2007

Our scorecard

In our Report to Society 2005, we set a number of objectives that we wanted to achieve in 2006 and we report on these in our scorecard below.

Objectives 2006	Performance 2006
Safety
Long-term objective to eliminate all accidents.	Regrettably there were 37 occupational fatalities at our operations and 1,288 lost-time injuries
Reduce LTIFR by 20% year-on-year.	The LTIFR rose by 14%.
Incorporate risk management as a critical aspect of management of our operations.	Ongoing initiatives in place.
All operations working towards OHSAS 18001 implementation.	Gap audit programme completed in 2006 and CVSA recommended for certification in December 2006.
Occupational health
Plan to meet South African Mine Health and Safety Council’s targets on NIHL and silicosis. These targets are:
OLD: by 2008, 95% of all silica exposure measurements will be below the occupational exposure limit (OEL) of 0,1mg/m3	The AngloGold Ashanti internal target of 10% of exposure measurements readings above the OEL was achieved with 9.95% of readings above the OEL. The target set for 2007 is 7.5%, with 5% for 2008 as per the industry milestone. The average silica dust concentration for 2006 was 0,04mg/m3. Dust control standards have been set and are being inspected on a regular basis for determination of risk profiles for all working places. More than 4,020 personal dust samples were taken in 2006.
By 2013, no new cases of silicosis will occur in previously unexposed employees.	Although the milestone is aimed at the year 2013, AngloGold Ashanti is already tracking all new cases of silicosis in all employees.
NIHL: by 2013, noise emissions of all equipment will be below 110dBA; and by 2008, no deterioration in hearing greater than 10% will occur in noise-exposed employees.	Compliance with respect to meeting the DME target was 34% for 2006.
To further drive down the TB incidence in the South Africa Region.	The TB rate recorded for 2006 was 31 per 1,000 employees per annum slightly up on that of 2005.