Our sustainability strategy

In 2015, we revised our Group sustainability strategy, considering our aims against four core pillars: 

• Health
• Safety
• Environment
• Community & human rights

This review involved the sustainability teams from our individual assets and commodity departments as well as technical experts, to ensure that the revised strategy fully supports our business requirements.

Our revised strategy has clearly defined imperatives, objectives, priority areas and targets. It will enable us to meet legislative requirements, manage the catastrophic hazards associated with our business, and maintain our societal licence to operate. Departments and assets have aligned their annual HSEC plans to the strategy. The strategy’s four core pillars and connected imperatives are:

Health	Safety	Environment	Community & human rights
Become a leader in the protection and improvement of our people’s and communities’ wellbeing.	Become a leader in workplace safety, eliminating fatalities and injuries.	Minimise any negative environmental impact from our operations and apply the precautionary principle in decision-making.	Foster sustainable growth and respect human rights wherever we operate.

In addition to these pillars, our materiality assessments for 2015 have identified three further focus areas:

Our people

Governance

Product stewardship

Our activities in these seven areas are detailed in this report. We will review this strategy each year to ensure that it continues to fulfil the needs of our business.