Health, Safety, Environment and Communities Safety, Environment and Communities Joanne Farrell - Global Head of Health, Safety, Environment and Communities 6 July 2015 Sustainable

Health, Safety, Environment and CommunitiesJoanne Farrell - Global Head of Health, Safety, Environment and Communities

Sustainable Development Workshop Sydney 20156 July 2015

Mandena Conservation Zone – QMM Madagascar

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This presentation contains a number of non-IFRS financial measures. Rio Tinto management considers these to be key financial performance indicators of the business and they are defined and/or reconciled in Rio Tinto’s annual results press release and/or Annual report.

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Injury frequency ratesPer 200,000 hours worked

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Safety is fundamental to our business

• Whilst we have achieved our lowest ever injury rates -we are yet to achieve a fatality free year

• We are focused on reducing injury rates and eliminating fatalities

• 2 fatalities at managed operations in 2014

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All injury frequency rate

Lost time injury frequency rate


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Leadership

and culture

Critical risks

and controlsSystems

and technology

Learning and

communication

Safety – our strategy


• Focus on fatality risk controls

• Vehicles and driving risk

reduction

• Learning lessons from fatal

and potential fatal incidents

• Supply chain safety

• Process safety

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Safety – current priorities

Kestrel mine rescue team training


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Process Safety

• Process Safety Management

implementation is progressing

well

Three key initiatives:

1. Raise leader awareness

2. Understand our risks in

depth

3. Implement a new process

safety standard

• Collaboration with industry

leaders including Shell and

DuPont

Rio Tinto Minerals – Boron Operations


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Sustainability: a critical business priority

We aspire to be a company that is admired and respected for

delivering superior value and for being the industry’s trusted

partner.


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The way we work

The way we work symbolises

what we stand for as a

business.

It makes clear how we behave

according to our values of

respect, integrity, teamwork

and accountability.


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Goals and targets for Rio Tinto

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Targets Performance FY 2014

Year on year reduction of injuries and zero fatalities

2 fatalities at managed operations in 2014

9% reduction in our AIFR compared with 2013

Year on year improvement in rate of new cases of occupational illness

6% reduction compared with 2013

All managed operations complete review of health risks through the implementation of critical control management plans by the end of 2015

41% of managed operations reviewed and implemented CCMPs as at the end of 2014

10% reduction in total greenhouse gas emissions intensity between 2008 and 2015

18% total reduction in greenhouse gas emissions intensity compared with 2008 -currently beating our 2015 target

Managed operations with material water risk will have achieved their approved local water performance targets by 2018

66% of managed operations were on track to meet their recently approved local water performance targets


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Assurance

Three layers

of assurance

Avoided event

Standards, Guidance, operating practices

First party audits:

Operations

Second party audits:

Business conformance audits

Third party audits:

Internal / external audit

Risk / Hazard


• Emergency response

• Ebola response

• Vector borne diseases

• Occupational health

• Mental health

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Health – current priorities

Pilbara wellness programme,

Australia

Ebola Virus


• Agreements

• Capacity building

• Resettlement

• Heritage

Richards Bay Minerals, South Africa

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Communities – current priorities


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Community engagement – Zulti South project

Health Clinics

Subsistence to Small Scale Farming Relocation and compensation

Business development centre


Accreditation, membership and reporting

• Rio Tinto is assessed and included in a number of sustainability leadership indices:

− Dow Jones Sustainability Index

− FTSE4Good Index

− ACSI – Comprehensive

• We are a member of leading sustainability associations, including:

− ICMM

− International Emissions Trading Association

• We have helped shape and participate in voluntary supply chain and transparency initiatives:

− Responsible Jewellery Council

− Aluminium Stewardship initiative

− Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

• We participate in or are accredited under a number of voluntary schemes, including:

− ISO – 14001 and OHSAS 18001

− Global Reporting Initiative

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Rio Tinto supports and is a member of the following organisations

Health, Safety, Environment and CommunitiesKelly Payne, Principal Advisor, Environment

Sustainable Development Workshop Sydney 20153 July 2015


• Managing natural

resources – water, air,

land

• Climate change

• Closure

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Environment – current priorities

Lac Saint-Jean Shoreline Protection – Saugenay, Canada


Managing natural resources – water, air, land

Air quality control, Cape Lambert, Australia

• Managing natural

resources we share with

other users

• Increasing expectations on

conservation and use of

resources

• Shared resources require

collaborative responses

with other users

Rehabilitated coastal rainforest at Richards Bay, South Africa

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Water management – shaped by technical and stakeholder considerations

• Access to water

• Water risks :

− Water constrained

settings

− Water surplus

settings

− Sensitive ecological

settings

• Water targets Water clarification and recycling at Hail Creek

Coal, Australia

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Climate change and energy management

• Management of climate risks

and opportunities to business

value

• Reduction in emissions

intensity and absolute

emissions since 2008

• Energy use is the largest

source of our emissions

Weipa solar project, Australia

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Waste management

• Mining generates mineral

and non-mineral waste

• Programmes that improve

our waste management and

its environmental impact

benefit the long term

management of water quality

and land rehabilitationWaste management - Guinea

Waste management – Boron Operation, USA

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Rehabilitating the land we use

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• Rio Tinto Coal Australia’s Hunter

Valley environment team received a

highly commended accolade at the

2014 NSW Minerals Council

Environment and Community

Excellence Awards

• An innovative seeder / aerator has

been developed that:

− Allows soil preparation, compost

incorporation and cover crop

seeding to be done in a single

pass; and

− Helps reduce water runoff and

erosion.

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Rehabilitation – award winning work

Stephen Galilee, CEO NSW Minerals Council

presenting the award to Rio Tinto representatives

The award winning aerator


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Closure – new life into old sites

Anglesey Aluminium

• Commenced production in 1970

• Smelting ceased on 30 September

2009

• Re-melt facility dedicated to the

production of billet operated from November 2009 until April 2013

Lynemouth Smelting

• Commenced production in 1974

• Smelting operations ceased March

2012

• Remelt operations ceased in

November 2012


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Foundations of sustainable value creation

Accountability

Respect

Integrity

Teamwork

• Relentless pursuit of shareholder value

• Disciplined decision-making

• For the environment and communities

• For health, safety and wellbeing

• Transparency in all that we do

• Fairness, honesty and openness

• Long-term partnerships

• Continuous improvement

Safety tasks, Dampier Salt

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