Social Performance

HEALTH & SAFETY

Murray & Roberts seeks to create an environment that fosters the belief and mindset among our people that it is possible to work injury free, regardless of where they are in the world, their role or in which operating entity they work.

OUR EMPLOYEES

The capacity and capability of our employees is a cornerstone of Murray & Roberts’ sustainability. The Group aims to be an employer of choice in the engineering and construction sectors within which it operates and its world-class delivery of products and services is a reflection of the capability of its diverse and experienced workforce.

The Murray & Roberts employment value proposition is aligned to global practices of high-performing employers of choice. It focuses on issues that enable our people to achieve the Group’s strategic objectives by:

• Attracting competent suitable employees
• Retaining employees
• Supporting employee performance
• Transitioning and developing employees
• Communicating with employees.

Due to the diversity of Murray & Roberts, individual business entities are encouraged to tailor their human capital plans to their specific needs, but they are required to align their plans with the Group’s employment value proposition.

TRANSFORMATION AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Murray & Roberts is committed to the national agenda of South Africa, including the pursuit of employment equity throughout the organisation, the economic empowerment of all sectors of society and facilitation of the growth of direct investment into the economy.

LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Murray & Roberts is committed to the principle of supporting local economic development in the economies within which it operates with the aim of supporting Government and client localisation strategies. We have made a significant investment in our plant and equipment over the past three years with a cumulative capital expenditure of R4,3 billion. R3,2 billion has contributed to the expansion of our productive base.

This investment has created more jobs both directly and indirectly and provides a platform for future growth and economic development in the economies in which we operate.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

The Group’s business activities have an impact on the communities in which they are undertaken. We are committed to managing this impact responsibly and accept that our obligation extends beyond statutory requirements to the upliftment of society as a whole. The Group engages community development through its corporate social investment (CSI) programme and through the Letsema Sizwe Broad-based Community Trust (Letsema Sizwe), a 3,5% shareholder in Murray & Roberts established as part of our Letsema BBBEE shareholding transaction in 2005.

For a complete report on our Social Engagement please visit the online annual integrated report.