Assurance
Our vision is to undertake our business with integrity, honesty and fairness at all times, building from a foundation of compliance with relevant laws and regulations and international standards, as well as being in line with various Rio Tinto and Rössing guidelines on leading business practices, such as The way we work.
Various external assurance and verification processes are conducted throughout the year on much of our work. For example, our financial statements are audited by external auditors, and environmental figures are audited annually by an external environmental auditing company. Auditing companies, Government bodies and other institutions that reviewed the company's practices in 2010, were as follows:
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (external audits)
- Ernst & Young (internal audits)
- Rio Tinto Corporate Assurance (internal audits)
- Det Norske Veritas (ISO 14001:2004 certification)
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Metago Environmental Engineers (annual review of tailings and associated environmental aspects)
- Environmental Resources Management Ltd (Rio Tinto operational and business unit assessment)
- Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare – Affirmative Action (Employment) Act, 1998 (No. 29 of 1998) (compliance 1 verification in respect of labour-related acts)
- Ministry of Health and Social Services (compliance verification in respect of health and related acts)
- Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry (compliance verification in respect of effluent management and water- 1 related acts)
- Ministry of Mines and Energy (compliance verification in respect of mining operation-related acts), and
- Ministry of Finance (compliance verification in respect of income tax and financial acts).
List of references
The way we work: Our statement of business practice
The way we buy
Human rights guidance
Compliance guidance
Business integrity guidance
Corporate governance guidance
Antitrust policy and guidance
Our key relationships
Sustainable development
Corporate standards – Safety
Corporate standards – Occupational health
Corporate standards – Environment
Corporate standards – Communities
Corporate standards – Closure
These reference documents are all available electronically from the Rio Tinto website – www.riotinto.com – or in hard copy by writing to Rio Tinto, 2 Eastbourne Terrace, London, W2 6LG, United Kingdom.