The purpose and scope of the are to:
- Help define social performance objectives for the site to support our Purpose to re-imagine mining to improve people’s lives and align with relevant aspects of the site’s Resource Development Plan, Life of Asset Plan and Sustainable Mining Plan. Ensure that objectives for social transition (including post-closure land use vision) are defined and considered in planning of operational activities of social performance and other relevant departments.
- Ensure social-related impacts associated with delivering Life of Asset Plan are identified and understood. Develop an integrated approach to impact management through developing and implementing avoidance, minimisation and mitigation measures. The should co-ordinate implementation of critical controls for Priority Unwanted Events as well as other impact management controls.
- Co-ordinate cross-functional activities and share learnings, specifically to:
- Ensure site is prepared for transition between phases of the asset lifecycle, including (but not limited to) from Project Development into Construction, into temporary Care and Maintenance, and from Operations into Social Transition.
- Co-ordinate activities for compliance with regulatory and permitting requirements that relate to affected community stakeholders e.g. percentage of local-employment commitments, water borehole monitoring.
- Co-ordinate engagement with stakeholders, including affected communities, and provide a forum for internal collaboration and knowledge sharing on topics of interest e.g. water management, to allow timely and accurate external consultation.
- Provide a forum for sharing feedback from affected stakeholders and implementing corrective action. Feedback could come from proactive engagements, grievances lodged, community protests, monitoring indicators and/or the results of periodic evaluation exercises.
- Facilitate cross-functional incident and grievance investigations, close-out and appeals as required. Lead ‘Learning from Incidents’ exercises and share across the as considered appropriate.
- Share information between functions to assist with delivery of function-specific plans and associated impact management. Drive delivery and co-ordination where required for all site social performance actions.
- Monitor and evaluate performance and progress, specifically with regard to:
- activities against key performance indicators and evaluate effectiveness of projects, programmes and risk management measures against intended objectives. Support implementation of corrective actions as required.
- Performance of the overall social performance management system and progress of actions against targets.
- Discuss and agree key management documents as outlined in Table 1.4.
Table 1.4 Documents for review