Sustainability Report
SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT
The Company has a duly constituted health and safety committee, as required by the Occupational Health and Safety Act. This committee assists the Board in ensuring that the Company provides and maintains a safe and healthy risk-free environment for staff and visitors by identifying risks and ensuring that controls designed to mitigate these risks are effective and complied with.Most of the Company’s core activities are regarded as having a low impact on the environment.
The Company benchmarks its current environmental practices against the criteria stipulated in the Global Reporting Initiative™ (GRI) Framework. These include:
- Materials
- Energy
- Water
- Biodiversity
- Emissions, effluents and waste
- Suppliers
- Products and services
- Compliance
- Transport Where deemed appropriate, usage and impact are being quantified and measured against best practices.
Where appropriate, compliance with safety, health and environmental systems is measured against formal standard systems and is subjected to independent review.
Tsb Sugar has set itself performance measures and consumption targets to minimise its environmental impact, for example bagasse, a by-product of the sugar production process, that is utilised to generate electricity. Most of Tsb Sugar mills’ electricity needs are generated from bagasse. Surplus electricity is supplied into the Eskom national network. Given the moisture content in sugar cane, Tsb Sugar also repatriates more water back into the environment than originally used in the production process.
In the production of its aluminium extrusions, Wispeco uses 44% post-consumer and 25% postindustrial recycled aluminium. While the smelting of primary aluminium is an energy intensive process, the remelting of scrap aluminium requires as little as 5% of this energy.
The environmental sustainability initiative also extends into nature conservation, education and awareness.
Climate change
Since the inception of CDP 6, Remgro has participated in the Carbon Disclosure Project every year. Initiatives are ongoing which include strategic alignment, integration of climate exposure into risk registers, building automated “carbon dashboards” to measure the progress of the initiatives online and enhancing the measurement and reporting processes supporting the initiatives at subsidiary companies.