Empowering our people to realise their full potential
Our people enable us to achieve our shared vision and strategy; ensuring their safety, health and wellbeing in the working environment is our priority.
Our approach
Our approach to health and safety is focused on identifying, mitigating and managing risk in order to prevent harm to our people, visitors, equipment and the broader environment. We are focused on integrating industry good and best practices around health and safety awareness into our approach.
Safe Workplace
FIT FOR PURPOSE SYSTEMS
EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION
Safe, Inclusive, and Value-Driven Workplace
Our strategy in action
Health & safety first
Behavioural-related accidents have inspired Petra, in line with the “Petra Culture Code” to place considerable focus on key initiatives to enhance this performance and promote a positive mindset, ensuring a healthy and safe working environment. This includes workplace engagement events focused on:
- Embedding the Petra Culture Code throughout the organisation.
- Focused leadership and workforce health and safety engagements and conversation.
- Visible felt leadership ManCo (Management Committee) and Line Management focus.
- Enabling empowerment and accountability through engaged leadership.
- Building partnerships thereby enabling positive behaviour and building trust and confidence amongst the workforce.
How we measure our performance
Our people are key to our success and their safety, health and wellbeing paramount. In the below graph you can see our lost time incidents and how often they occur in our business.
For more information on how we track our sustainability performance see our Sustainability KPIs.
Standards and guidelines we follow
- ISO 45001: 2018 Occupational Health and Safety Management System
- ISO 31000: Risk Management Principles
- ISO 31010: Risk Management Techniques
- ISO 73: Risk Management Vocabulary
- Minerals Council South Africa
- Mine Health and Safety Council milestones in South Africa
- International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM)
Our occupational health hygiene and wellness programmes focus on sustaining a healthy and productive lifestyle for all employees and contractors as well as improving employee mental wellness.
Our approach
Our occupational health programme’s primary focus is to ensure the health, hygiene and wellbeing of all our people. We aim to shape a company culture that recognises the value of caring for our people, who are integral to Petra’s ultimate success.
Areas of focus:
- Managing occupational health risks to prevent harm to our workforce
- Implementing employee health and wellbeing programmes
- Building partnerships with external health service providers to strengthen health systems
- Engaging on health issues
How we measure our performance
Medical Examinations (FY 2023: 9,064)
HIV/Aids cases diagnosed on treatment (FY 2023: 93%)
TB cases diagnosed on treatment (FY 2023: 100%)
For more information on how we track our sustainability performance see our Sustainability KPIs.
Standards and guidelines we follow
- Mine Health and Safety Council milestones in South Africa
- International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM)
- Fitness and noise medicals conducted according to Mandatory Code of Practice (MCOP)
We aim to empower our employees to fulfil their true potential through training and attractive career development opportunities. Employees who enhance their skill sets contribute to the company’s success and have greater career satisfaction, which improves morale, productivity and employee retention.
Our approach
We aim to provide education and training opportunities that enable our employees to fulfil their best potential.
We focus on employing people in our local communities, with programmes to equip them with much-needed skills.
We cultivate the leadership and management skills required for the business, with a range of in-house and externally facilitated employee development programmes.
Investment in training and development, with a target of 5% of annual payroll to:
- Create a managerial excellence culture
- Develop the next generation of leaders
- Progress career development through learnerships
- Improve further and higher education
- Address transferability of abilities: portable skills training for employees
Our strategy in action
Portable Skills Programme
Petra assisted 67 community members in FY 2024. Graduates completed training programmes in basic plumbing, welding, hospitality and driving. This was the second intake of students as part of the Mine’s Community Development Plan (SLP 3). The courses equip students with a foundation of skills, preparing them for future job opportunities and providing an understanding of what it takes to start a business of their own. Johan Brits, Training manager at Cullinan Mine, said the initiative was part of the company’s commitment to empowering students in its host communities through education and skills development. “We are proud of all the students who completed their respective courses, and we look forward to seeing them grow in their fields of expertise”.
How we measure our performance
Staff Turnover and Training Spend
STAFF TURNOVER (%)
STAFF AND FIXED TERM CONTRACTORS TURNOVER
2.4
+35%
TRAINING SPEND (US$ MILLION)
INVESTMENT IN EMPLOYEE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
4.0
-13%
For more information on how we track our sustainability performance see our Sustainability KPIs.
Standards and guidelines we follow
- South African Mining Charter
- International Labour Organization Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
We strive to attract and retain diverse human capital and eliminate discrimination throughout our workforce. This will allow us to attract and retain top talent, strengthen employee satisfaction and reflect the demographics of the societies where we operate thereby securing our licence to operate.
Our approach
We want to be a diverse and inclusive company because of our strategic objectives and future success. Our vision is to encourage leadership, at all levels group-wide, to think broadly about diversity and to ensure that our appointments and succession planning practices, including retention, are designed to support diversity.
Areas of focus:
- Encouraging women in mining
- Equality and equity
Our strategy in action
Petra launches a new chapter of its ‘Women in Leadership’ development programme
Four years ago Petra implemented a leadership development programme to empower its female leaders, giving participants a more empowered voice in the organisation.
In FY 2024, 22 women leaders graduated from the WiL programme.
How we measure our performance
- Gender diversity
| Female Workforce | Female Graduates | Females represented on Board | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 19% | 34% | 22% |
| 2020 | 19% | 28% | 22% |
| 2021 | 20% | 36% | 25% |
| 2022 | 20% | 46% | 40% |
| 2023 | 21% | 50% | 40% |
| 2024 | 22% | 56% | 43% |
For more information on how we track our sustainability performance see our Sustainability KPIs.
Standards and guidelines we follow
- South African Mining Charter
- International Labour Organization Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
