Audit and Self-Assessment
Twenty-four HSEC audits were conducted during the reporting period to assess the level of implementation of the HSEC Management Standards. The program involved 76 personnel from both HSEC functional roles and operational roles and two external auditors. This brings to 79 the number of sites audited since the program commenced in September 2001, with 208 BHP Billiton and 16 external auditors involved. Four sites remain to be audited by December to complete the first three-year cycle.
The audit process is assisting sites to accelerate the rate of implementation of the HSEC Management Standards through the identification and communication of leading practices. The average level and range of conformance for each of the Standards is presented in the diagram below, which shows an overall conformance of 3.7 out of 5 (compared to 3.4 out of 5 for the last reporting period) against our target of full conformance (a score of greater than 4 out of 5) with the Standards by 30 June 2005.
Operating sites not audited during the year were required to undertake self-assessments against the Standards. The results from these 49 self-assessments have been combined with the audit results to give an overall conformance of 3.7 out of 5.
In the coming year, sites with lower Standards conformance levels will be revisited to help identify remaining areas for improvement in the lead up to our June 2005 target date. Additionally, the learnings from the first triennial audit cycle will be reviewed, the program updated and a new risk-based approach to HSEC audits initiated for the start of the 2006 fiscal year.
Audited conformance scores against each of the HSEC Management Standards
2001/02 to 2003/04
The Minerals Council of Australia is currently developing an Operational Framework for Sustainable Development Implementation that will underpin the ICMM Sustainable Development Framework and will, in time, replace the Code for Environmental Management, which we have reported against in previous years. To assist in the transition to the Operational Framework for Sustainable Development, the Board of the Minerals Council of Australia no longer requires reporting of conformance against the Code and instead have replaced it with a series of indicators drawn from the Global Reporting Initiative. Refer to our GRI navigator to see how these have been addressed.
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