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
Our business depends as much on the skill of our people as it does on the equipment we use. Our primary focus, therefore, is ensuring a safe and healthy workplace. Training is an integral part of this focus.
As it is clearly spelt out in our SHEQ Policy document, Basil Read strives to create and maintain ZERO HARM in the workplace.
We are committed to the continuous identification of hazards, assessment of risks and implementation of controls. Planned Visible Felt Leadership (VFL) visits by management to workplaces, create a platform for both management and employees to discuss daily safety challenges of the tasks at hand.
By December 2016, the mining division reached a milestone by exceeding 5 million hours worked without a lost-time injury. The above performance translates to one year without a lost time injury, the first in five years. A certificate of Safety Excellence in pursuit of Zero Harm was awarded to Basil Read by De Beers at their global safety day event held at Venetia mine, recognising an outstanding contribution to safety improvement on site.
The Construction Division recorded outstanding safety performances on three sites:
To align with the Basil Read vision and mission, our focus will be to foster a quality culture with the objectives of developing, engineering and striving to provide products and services with zero defects that are trusted and preferred by our customers. We will continuously challenge ourselves to improve the quality management system and encourage quality responsibilities among all our employees to protect our customers and our brand.
The alignment of the quality assurance strategy is shown below:
At Basil Read, we believe that protecting our employees is not just about keeping them safe at work. It is about helping them remain healthy by understanding their health risks as well as ensuring they understand the safety and environmental risks.
In its third year, the Basil Read in-house clinic conducted 3930 (2015: 3 890) medical examinations to determine fitness for work, and a medical surveillance programme comprising: