About Us OUR APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY Developing Sustainability Policies In a bid to set ourselves apart in terms of sustainability and as a way of complying with applicable laws, standards and requirements. We are in the process of adding new sustainability policies to existing ones that will be applicable and implemented across the Group. These policies will set the tone for sustainability and further reiterate our commitment towards staff, investors, customers and other stakeholders. Some of these HSSE policies and standards include: • HIV/AIDS policy; • Alcohol policy; • HSSE Risk Management Standards • Incident Reporting & Investigation Policy; • Safety Management Standard; • Environmental Social Impact Assessment (ESIA); • Environmental Management Standard; • Stakeholder Engagement Standard; and • Community Investment Standard. Baseline audits are preliminary assessments to develop a reference point. We are committed to ensuring that we carry out a baseline audit to assess our performance in relation to defined sustainability parameters in order to determine and prioritise which initiatives we should 2016 • Benchmarking - Lafarge, Cemex, PPC, ACC • Pilot selection of KPIs to monitor and report (Fatalities, FFR, LTIs, LTIR, Dust, GHG, Water) • Monitoring of reporting framework developed • Preliminary identification of applicable reporting standards • Reporting Guidelines in line with CSI standards developed and communicated to all sites • Management review of pilot results started • Basic/foundation training of relevant staff pursue to better integrate sustainability parameters into our core systems and procedures. This method will serve as a basis for comparison in future audits. Developing and testing key performance indicators A set of key performance indicators have been identified and monitored and targets will be set around key issues of sustainability that are material to our businesses. This will serve as our commitment to report and manage impact. Our Sustainability Reporting Roadmap Dangote Cement proposes a 3-year road map for the development and implementation of a robust Sustainability Reporting process and methodology. This roadmap shows the steps Dangote Cement has initiated towards a robust systems with regards to sustainability. Massimo Bettanin Head of Sustainability 2017 • Management review of pilot results and CAs to improve reporting reliability and consistency to be completed • Review of CSI full set of KPIs and FRC Reporting Standard requirements • Development (if needed) of procedure/criteria for Materiality assessment • Identification of key stakeholder and understanding of their expectations • Identification of KPIs to report based on CSI/FRC review and stakeholder expectations • Intermediate & professional training of relevant staff 2018 • Roll out of the monitoring and reporting system across the whole business to include depots and transport • Definition of baseline • • Internal data assurance Identification and set up of targets for improvement taking into account stakeholders’ expectation and business need/resources • Management review of monitoring/reporting content (i.e. materiality, stakeholder inclusiveness, completeness) and quality (i.e. comparability, accuracy, clarity, reliability, etc.) Annual Report 2016 49
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