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
Enterprise development forms an integral part of the transformation programme at Basil Read. Basil Read has been a significant contributor to enterprise development in the South African construction and mining landscape through various development programmes on our sites. For 2 years we ran an incubation programme with Aurik and we are currently in partnership with SAFCEC in the roll out of a skill-transfer and mentorship based programme.
We continue to support South Africa’s broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) initiatives aimed at growing the economy by empowering designated groups.
We have aligned our HR strategy with our employment equity plan, in turn based on company policy, to accelerate transformation. Employment equity targets are set across all divisions, monitored quarterly and reported to the executive committee. Divisions in turn are responsible for implementing measures to determine and monitor any potential barriers in the workplace, promote equality and prevent discrimination.
Challenging industry economic conditions, coupled with continuous monitoring of the corporate budget, has limited employment initiatives and hence our transformation targets.