The mining division specialises in surface contract mining.
Our approach is to ensure lasting benefits while minimising our impact on the natural environment.
Our primary focus is ensuring a safe and healthy workplace. Training is an integral part of this focus.
Basil Read is actively involved with South African transformation and broad-based black economic empowerment.
Our expanding footprint has presented challenges in managing our human resources
We strive to protect and sustain the environment, and to manage our impacts effectively, when these are unavoidable.
Basil Read strives to engage with meaningful initiatives that contribute to the transformation of people and communities.
Our reports scope, assurance process and standards used
We are focused on protecting the safety of our employees, engaging with them, and increasing the diversity of our workforce so that it reflects the societies in which we operate.
We strive to create and maintain safe and healthy working environments and to apply robust operating and maintenance practices at our facilities.
Basil Read is one of the leading construction companies in terms of electronic SHEQ management reporting systems, which provides the framework for real-time trend analysis and a proactive approach.
The focus on our employees included internal bursaries, learnerships, computer skills, SHEQ and job specific training as identified in our skills needs analysis to ensure their continual development and to encourage life‑long learning.
We take a holistic approach to employee wellness and, through our healthcare brokers and medical aid administrators, we provide various services from employee wellness days, HIV/AIDS testing and support to trauma and other counselling.
The gym facilities and restuarant in the corporate office also give employees the opportunity to follow a balanced lifestyle while at work.