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2015 Global Reporting Initiative Checklist
Standard Disclosures
Disclosure
Response
Strategy and Analysis
G4-1
G4-2
Statement from the most senior decision-maker of the organisation.
Chairman's letter
Chief executive's statement
Group strategy
Description of key impacts, risks and opportunities.
Sustainable development review
Strategic context
Group strategy
Principal risks and uncertainties
Materiality
Goals & targets
Organisational Profile
G4-3
Name of the organisation.
About Rio Tinto
G4-4
Primary brands, products and/or services.
Our business
G4-5
Location of organisation’s headquarters.
Contacts
G4-6
Number of countries where the organisation operates, and names
of countries with either major operations or that are specifically
relevant to the sustainability issues covered in the report.
G4-7
G4-8
Nature of ownership and legal form.
Markets served (including geographic breakdown,
sectors served and types of customers/beneficiaries).
G4-9
Scale of the reporting organisation.
Our business
About Rio Tinto
Group overview
Strategic context
Chartbook
About Rio Tinto
Performance highlights
Metal and minerals production
Chartbook
Shareholder information
People
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Standard Disclosures
Disclosure
G4-10
Response
Total workforce by employment type, gender, employment
contract and region.
G4-11
Percentage of employees covered by collective
bargaining agreements.
G4-12
Describe the organisation’s supply chain.
G4-14
Significant changes during the reporting period regarding size,
structure, ownership.
Explanation of whether and how the precautionary approach
or principle is addressed.
G4-15
Externally developed economic, environmental and social
charters, principles or other initiatives to which the organisation
subscribes or endorses.
G4-16
Memberships in associations.
G4-13
Performance data table
Rio Tinto's Human rights guidance is applicable at all sites
and covers freedom of association in relation to union
membership. Approximately seventy per cent of employees
are covered by collective bargaining agreements.
Value chain
Business life cycle
Chairman's letter
Chief executive's statement
History
United Nations Global Compact
Engagement
Engagement
Performance
Identified material aspects and boundaries
G4-17
a) List all entities included in the organisation’s consolidated
financial statements;
b) Report whether any entity included in the organisation’s
consolidated financial statements or equivalent documents
is not covered by the report.
About Rio Tinto
2015 Annual report, Notes to the financial statements page
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G4-18
Process for defining the report content and the Aspect
Boundaries and explanation how the Reporting Principles
for Defining Report Content has been implemented.
Reporting at a Group level
Materiality
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Standard Disclosures
Disclosure
G4-19
G4-20
G4-21
G4-22
G4-23
Response
List all the material Aspects identified in the process for defining
report content.
For each material Aspect, report the Aspect Boundary within
the organisation.
For each material Aspect, report the Aspect Boundary outside
the organisation.
Explanation of the effect of any re-statements.
Significant changes from previous reporting periods in the Scope
and Aspect Boundaries.
Materiality
Included in this checklist
Included in this checklist
Reporting at a Group level
Performance data table
Reporting at a Group level
Stakeholder engagement
G4-24
G4-25
G4-26
G4-27
List of stakeholder groups engaged by the organisation.
Basis for identification and selection of stakeholders with
whom to engage.
Approaches to stakeholder engagement, including frequency
of engagement by type and by stakeholder group.
Key topics and concerns that have been raised through
stakeholder engagement, and how the organisation has
responded to those key topics and concerns, including through
its reporting. Report the stakeholder groups that raised each of
the key topics and concerns.
Engagement
Engagement
Engagement
Engagement
Materiality
Environment
Communities
People
Value chain
Archived Sustainable development reports
Reporting profile
G4-28
Reporting period for information provided.
Reporting at a Group level
G4-29
Date of most recent previous report.
Archived reports
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Disclosure
Response
G4-30
Reporting cycle.
Reporting at a Group level
G4-31
Contacts
G4-32
Contact point for questions regarding the report or its contents.
Table identifying the location of the Standard Disclosures
in the report.
G4-33
Policy and current practice with regard to seeking external
assurance for the report.
Included in this checklist
Assurance
External auditors: selection and appointment and rotation
of engagement partners
Governance
G4-34
Governance structure of the organisation, including committees
responsible for decision-making on economic, environmental and
social impacts.
Governance framework and structure
Board of directors
Board committees and terms of reference
Ethics and Integrity
G4-56
Internally developed statements of mission or values, codes
of conduct and principles relevant to economic, environmental
and social performance and the status of their implementation.
The way we work
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Impact boundary key: 1. Employees; 2. Local communities; 3. Suppliers; 4. Customers; 5.
Shareholders and investor groups; 6. Governments and regulators; 7. Managed operations.
Specific Standard Disclosures
Disclosure
Response
Impact boundary
Economic
Economic performance
DMA
Disclosure on Management approach
G4-EC1
G4-EC2
Direct economic value generated and distributed, including
revenues, operating costs, employee compensation, donations
and other community investments, retained earnings, and
payments to capital providers and governments.
Financial implications and other risks and opportunities for the
organisation’s activities due to climate change.
G4-EC3
Coverage of the organisation’s defined benefit plan obligations.
G4-EC4
Significant financial assistance received from government.
Indirect economic impact
Development and impact of infrastructure investments and
G4-EC7
services supported.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Chairman's letter
Chief executive's statement
Strategic context
Principal risks and uncertainties
Economic contributions
Key performance indicators
Economic contributions
Taxes paid
Communities
Archived Sustainable development reports
Principal risks and uncertainties
Climate change
People
Post-retirement benefits
Economic contributions
Taxes paid
Economic contributions
Communities
Environmental
Energy
3, 4, 7
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Impact boundary key: 1. Employees; 2. Local communities; 3. Suppliers; 4. Customers; 5.
Shareholders and investor groups; 6. Governments and regulators; 7. Managed operations.
Specific Standard Disclosures
Disclosure
DMA
Disclosure on Management approach
G4-EN3
Energy consumption within the organisation.
Response
Sustainability Committee
Principal risks and uncertainties
Economic contributions
Key performance indicators
Energy
Glossary
Water
G4-EN8
2, 6, 7
Total water withdrawal by source.
Water
Performance data table
Emissions
2, 4, 6, 7
G4-EN15
Direct GHG emissions (Scope 1).
G4-EN16
Energy indirect GHG emissions (Scope 2).
G4-EN21
NOx, SOx and other significant air emissions by type and weight.
Climate change
Performance data table
Climate change
Performance data table
Air
Performance data table
Effluents and waste
G4-EN22
Total water discharge by quality and destination.
G4-EN23
Total weight of waste by type and disposal method.
G4-EN24
Total number and volume of significant spills
Total amounts of overburden, rock, tailings and sludges
and their associated risks.
MM3
Impact boundary
2, 6, 7
Water
Interactive charts
Waste
Interactive charts
Waste
Directors' report
Waste
Performance data table
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Impact boundary key:
1. Employees; 2. Local communities; 3. Suppliers; 4. Customers; 5. Shareholders and investor
groups; 6. Governments and regulators; 7. Managed operations.
Specific Standard Disclosures
Disclosure
Response
Environmental compliance
G4-EN29
Monetary value of significant fines and total number
of non-monetary sanctions for non-compliance with
environmental laws and regulations.
Impact boundary
5, 6, 7
Directors' report
Performance data table
Social: Labor Practices and Decent Work
Employment
DMA
G4-LA1
1, 2, 5, 6, 7
Disclosure on Management approach
Total number and rate of new employee hires and
employee turnover by age group, gender, and region.
Sustainability Committee
Principal risks and uncertainties
Social
Governance
Human rights
People
United Nations Global Compact
Value chain
Performance data table
Labor/management relations
G4-LA4
Minimum notice period(s) regarding significant
operational changes, including whether it is specified
in collective agreements.
1, 2, 5, 7
We provide the minimum notice periods required by local
legislation in the regions where we operate. It is typically twofour weeks and up to three months. In cases where employees
are represented by labour unions, notice periods are provided
by local legislation or in collective bargaining agreements.
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Impact boundary key:
1. Employees; 2. Local communities; 3. Suppliers; 4. Customers; 5. Shareholders and
investor groups; 6. Governments and regulators; 7. Managed operations.
Specific Standard Disclosures
Disclosure
MM4
Response
Number of strikes and lock-outs exceeding one week’s duration,
by country.
Nil
Occupational health and safety
G4-LA6
Type of injury and rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days,
and absenteeism, and number of work-related fatalities by region
and by gender.
Training and education
Percentage of employees receiving regular performance and
G4-LA11
career development reviews, by gender and by employee category.
1, 2, 5, 7
Performance data table
1, 2, 5, 7
Performance data table
Diversity and equal opportunity
G4-LA12
Composition of governance bodies and breakdown of employees
per category according to gender, age group, minority group
membership and other indicators of diversity.
Impact boundary
1, 2, 5, 7
Board
People
United Nations Global Compact
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Impact boundary key:
1. Employees; 2. Local communities; 3. Suppliers; 4. Customers; 5. Shareholders and
investor groups; 6. Governments and regulators; 7. Managed operations.
Specific Standard Disclosures
Disclosure
Response
Equal remuneration for men and women
Impact boundary
1, 2, 5, 7
People
Remuneration report
United Nations Global Compact
Rio Tinto employs on the basis of job requirements and does
not discriminate on grounds of age, ethnic or social origin,
gender, sexual orientation, politics or religion.
G4-LA13
Ratio of basic salary of men to women by employee category,
by significant locations of operation.
We do not report statistics on the ratio of basic salary of
men to women by employment category at the Group level,
outside of the senior leadership group, as we have a variety
of data collection systems implemented by individual
business units across the Group. This means that data
aggregation is not currently possible. We are currently
improving our data collection approach in this area and will
be able to report more completely on this indicator within
the next five years.
Labor practices and grievance mechanisms
G4-LA16
Number of grievances about labour practices filed, addressed,
and resolved through formal grievance mechanisms.
1, 2, 5, 7
Approximately 1,900 grievances about labour practices were
filed with approximately 600 addressed during the reporting
period.
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Impact boundary key:
1. Employees; 2. Local communities; 3. Suppliers; 4. Customers; 5. Shareholders and
investor groups; 6. Governments and regulators; 7. Managed operations.
Specific Standard Disclosures
Disclosure
Response
Impact boundary
Social: Human rights
DMA
Disclosure on Management approach
Sustainability Committee
Principal risks and uncertainties
Social
Governance
Human rights
Communities
Security practices
1, 2, 3, 7
Human rights
G4-HR7
Percentage of security personnel trained in the
organisation’s human rights policies or procedures
that are relevant to operations.
In 2015, all Rio Tinto high risk sites (Class III and IV risk) in
the AMA, EMEA & APAC regions received, delivered, or
supported their security providers (private and public) with
security and human rights training. Training delivery
included the use of the Rio Tinto multimedia VPSHR training
programme for security personnel, the three-day Rio Tinto
VPSHR course for security personnel, and the five-day Rio
Tinto VPSHR Training of Trainers course (for sites equipped
with weapons and firearms). Approximately 620 security
personnel received training.
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Impact boundary key:
1. Employees; 2. Local communities; 3. Suppliers; 4. Customers; 5. Shareholders and investor
groups; 6. Governments and regulators; 7. Managed operations.
Specific Standard Disclosures
Disclosure
Response
Indigenous rights
Impact boundary
1, 2, 7
Communities
MM5
G4-HR8
Total number of operations taking place in or adjacent to
Indigenous Peoples’ territories, and number and percentage
of operations or sites where there are formal agreements
with Indigenous Peoples’ communities.
Total number of incidents of violations involving rights
of Indigenous peoples and actions taken.
Indigenous Peoples are impacted by 20 Rio Tinto business
units (excluding exploration and evaluation projects). Of
these, 13 business units have reached agreements with the
affected Indigenous Peoples. As a number of business units
have more than one agreement, there are a total of 29
Indigenous agreements in place across Rio Tinto.
Rio Tinto business units have mechanisms in place for
managing complaints, disputes and grievances. These
efforts are supported by detailed guidance from Rio Tinto,
which is consistent with the requirements set out in the
UNGPs. Where an Indigenous agreement is in place, all such
agreements have detailed requirements for the
management of complaints and disputes, including external
facilitation, if required. At this stage we are unable to
report centrally on business unit level data, however we
have a programme of work under way through 2016 the
outcome of which will be to provide Group-level data in this
area. As an indication of Rio Tinto’s commitment to this
work, in 2016 we will publish ‘Why Agreements Matter’.
This is a substantive guide that outlines Rio Tinto’s
approach to agreement-making across the Group.
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Impact boundary key:
1. Employees; 2. Local communities; 3. Suppliers; 4. Customers; 5. Shareholders and investor
groups; 6. Governments and regulators; 7. Managed operations.
Specific Standard Disclosures
Disclosure
Response
Impact boundary
Social: Society
DMA
Disclosure on Management approach
Sustainability Committee
Principal risks and uncertainties
Social
Communities
Governance
Human rights
Business integrity
Closure
Local Community
MM6
MM7
1, 2, 7
Number and description of significant disputes relating
to land use, customary rights of local communities and
Indigenous Peoples.
In 2015, Rio Tinto had two significant disputes in respect of
land, resources use and communities. In both cases the
disputes remain unresolved at year end.
The extent to which grievance mechanisms were used to
resolve disputes relating to land use, customary rights of local
communities and Indigenous Peoples, and the outcomes.
In 2015, no formal grievance procedures have been
triggered however in both cases the Company is actively
seeking resolution of the dispute. In one case, this involves
extensive consultation and engagement with the affected
parties, and in the other, the re-establishment of a
negotiation process which is intended to result in a
substantive community agreement with the company. For
the purposes of this report, "significant" is defined as a
dispute which received international media attention
and/or caused a delay to production.
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Impact boundary key:
1. Employees; 2. Local communities; 3. Suppliers; 4. Customers; 5. Shareholders and investor
groups; 6. Governments and regulators; 7. Managed operations.
Specific Standard Disclosures
Disclosure
Response
Artisanal and small-scale mining
MM8
Number (and percentage) or company operating sites where artisanal and
small-scale mining (ASM) takes place on, or adjacent to, the site; the
associated risks and the actions taken to manage and mitigate these risks.
2, 7
Communities
Resettlement
MM9
Sites where resettlements took place, the number of
households resettled in each and how their livelihoods
were affected in the process.
2, 7
In 2015, Rio Tinto had one resettlement in progress. It was
planned and executed in accordance with Rio Tinto and IFC
standards. Eleven households and approximately 60
individuals were impacted by the resettlement. Consent
was secured via household-level signed agreements, which
were also endorsed at village level and by
Government. Compensation payments were made, as per
agreements, and agriculture-based livelihood restoration
programmes are currently under way. In addition,
temporary housing was provided, where required. There
were no significant disputes related to this resettlement.
Closure planning
MM10
Number and percentage of operations with closure plans.
Impact boundary
1, 2, 6, 7
Closure
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Impact boundary key:
1. Employees; 2. Local communities; 3. Suppliers; 4. Customers; 5. Shareholders and
investor groups; 6. Governments and regulators; 7. Managed operations.
Specific Standard Disclosures
Disclosure
Response
Anti-corruption
Impact boundary
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7
Business integrity
United Nations Global Compact
G4-SO5
Confirmed incidents of corruption and actions taken.
In 2015, there were 23 confirmed incidents of corruption
(instances of fraud, bribery & corruption, and conflict of
interest). Five employees were dismissed or disciplined for
corruption. Two incidents were confirmed related to
termination or non-renewal of contracts with business
partners due to corruption. Zero public legal cases regarding
corruption were brought against the Group during 2015.
Public policy
G4-SO6
1, 2, 6, 7
Total value of political contributions by country and
recipient beneficiary.
Directors' report
Rio Tinto does not make political contributions.
Compliance
G4-SO8
1, 2, 5, 6, 7
Monetary value of significant fines and total number
of non-monetary sanctions for non-compliance with
laws and regulations.
Rio Tinto has not received any significant fines or nonmonetary sanctions, nor had any significant non-compliance
with laws and regulations in 2015.
This Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) checklist is prepared in accordance with the GRI G4 Core Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, including the Mining and Metals Sector Supplement for the
issues that meet the materiality threshold.
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