BHP Billiton Health, Safety, Environment & Community Report 2004

Vision and Strategy

Governance and Management Systems

Economic Performance Indicators

Environmental Performance Indicators

Additional Environmental Performance Indicators

Social Performance Indicators

GRI Indicator		BHP Billiton 2004 HSEC Report Section	BHP Billiton 2004 HSEC Report Sub-section	Reference in Full Report
Economic Performance Indicators
EC1	Net sales	About Us		Table – ‘Summary financial information for the BHP Billiton Group US$ million (Year ending 30 June)’.
EC2	Geographic breakdown of markets	Performance Summaries	Socio-economic – Socio-economic performance – Economic contributions – Our economic footprint	Graph – ‘Diversification by market (turnover) at 30 June 2004’.
EC3	Costs of all goods, materials, and services purchased	Performance Summaries	Socio-economic – Socio-economic performance – Economic contributions – Our economic footprint	Table – ‘Expenditure by region (US$ million) 2003/04’.
EC4	Percentage of contracts that were paid in accordance with agreed terms, excluding penalty arrangements	–	–	NO DISCLOSURE BHP Billiton Comment: Due to the large array of contracts held, it is currently impractical to collect and report these data.
EC5	Total payroll and benefits (including wages, pension, other benefits and redundancy payments) broken down by country or region	Performance Summaries	Socio-economic – Socio-economic performance – Economic contributions – Our economic footprint	Table – ‘Expenditure by region (US$ million) 2003/04’ incorporates aggregated remuneration data for employee payments, goods and services. PARTIAL DISCLOSURE BHP Billiton Comment: Remuneration data are aggregated with Employee Payments, Goods and Services data in ‘Expenditure by region (US$ million) 2003/04’ (in Performance Summaries – Socio-economic section).
EC6	Distributions to providers of capital broken down by interest on debt and borrowings, and dividends on all classes of shares, with any arrears of preferred dividends to be disclosed	About Us		Table – ‘Summary financial information for the BHP Billiton Group’ incorporates dividends paid.
EC6		Performance Summaries	Socio-economic – Socio-economic performance – Economic contributions – Our economic footprint	Table – ‘Expenditure by region (US$ million) 2003/04’ includes shareholder dividends. PARTIAL DISCLOSURE BHP Billiton Comment: Due to the complexity of the business, not all data relating to this indicator have been disclosed in the Report.
EC7	Increase/decrease in retained earnings at end of period	About Us		Table – ‘Summary financial information for the BHP Billiton Group’ in which trend data is provided for 2001/02, 2002/03 and 2003/04, which facilitates the comparison of year-on-year earnings.
EC8	Total sum of taxes of all types paid broken down by country	About Us		Table – ‘Summary financial information for the BHP Billiton Group’ in which taxation paid (net of refunds) is detailed, but not broken down by country.
EC8	Total sum of taxes of all types paid broken down by country	Performance Summaries	Socio-economic – Socio-economic performance – Economic contributions – Our economic footprint	Graph – ‘Total allocated expenditure by category 2003/04 (US$ million)’ provides the overall total for income tax, resource rent tax and royalties. Table – ‘Expenditure by region (US$ million) 2003/04’ includes income tax, resource rent tax and royalties by region (Africa, Australia and Asia, Europe, North America and South America) rather than individual countries. PARTIAL DISCLOSURE BHP Billiton Comment: Taxation figures have been broken down by region, rather than country. BHP Billiton has confirmed its support for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative regarding disclosure of payment of taxes and royalties and will work with host governments that participate in this process to ensure public reporting of these payments.
EC9	Subsidies received broken down by country or region	–	–	NO DISCLOSURE BHP Billiton Comment: BHP Billiton defines subsidies to be payments made from governments to industry. As such, these data are not disclosed as BHP Billiton is not a significant beneficiary of subsidies and therefore has not endeavoured to obtain these data.
EC10	Donations to community, civil society, and other groups broken down in terms of cash and in-kind donations per type of group	Performance Summaries	Community – Community performance – Community contributions	1st paragraph: ‘During 2004, our voluntary contributions to community programs totalled US$46.5 million, comprising cash, in-kind support and management time.’ Graph – ‘Community contributions by program category 2003/04’ shows the percentage breakdown of the types of program on which community donations are spent, e.g., environment 8% and health 12%. Graph – ‘Community contributions by geographic region 2003/04’ shows the percentage breakdown of where community donations are spent, e.g., South America 31% and Africa 27%.