Stakeholders

Our stakeholders are those people or organisations who affect, or are affected by, our operations. Companies do not operate in isolation from society and our stakeholders have a legitimate interest in the way we do business.

By involving stakeholders in key decisions that shape day-to-day operations, we gain an understanding of current and emerging issues and can best balance interests and improve our performance.

We recognise that clear, effective and honest communications with our stakeholders enhances the transparency of our business and demonstrates our commitment to being accountable.

In short, actively engaging our stakeholders underpins all our efforts to be a more sustainable company.

We are involved in a number of stakeholder engagement activities including:

		Responding to the SRI community
		Engaging with employees
		Responding to enquiries raised by customers, employees and NGOs
		Participation and collaboration with various industry initiatives, governmental and non-governmental initiatives and multi-stakeholder partnerships
		Outreach to academia and students.

Find out more about our stakeholders in our online report 2007: Striving to improve performance.