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Mittal Steel South Africa's sustainable development philosophy is driven by the company’s firm belief that the financial prosperity of the organisation is inextricably linked to the manner in which the company cares for its people, the environment and communities in which it operates.
This philosophy manifests itself in an array of safety, health, environmental and social investment programmes, which represent the human interface of the organisation and is aimed at the well being of the company’s key stakeholders, both in the operating environment and within society.
With board and executive level representation the company ensures that sustainable development activities receive the highest level of attention. The company’s Vanderbijlpark Steel plant, which was part of the former Iscor Group, had no structured strategic HIV/AIDS intervention three years ago. It started from “ground zero” and a range of behaviour change methodologies, techniques, workplace programmes and products were developed. A BC formula (rights/responsibilities + access = choice) was developed to provide the model for HIV/AIDS-related programmes, projects and interventions, whether mass or person-to-person.
Its HIV/AIDS structure is multi-disciplinary, making provision for representation from the following disciplines:
- Safety, health, environment, risk and quality
The Bamampela/Friends Indeed peer-educator programme has seen 87 educators recruited and trained and target is to have 300 in place.
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