BusinessLive reports that Anglo American Platinum’s (Amplats’) top executives were grilled for almost half-an-hour at the company’s annual general meeting (AGM) on Friday about the sharp increase in the number of workers killed in 2016 from 2015.  

Questions were also asked about the failure to disclose the amount paid to the bereaved families.  Corporate activist Theo Botha asked what was being done to make safety improvements and why fatalities were not given more prominence than the 3% component in the key performance indicators for the CEO’s remuneration.  CEO Chris Griffith indicated that the number of fatalities at the group had fallen from 25-30 a year a few years ago to two in 2015, which showed the level of effort that had gone into tackling safety.  Other measurements, such as lost-time injuries, had improved.  The increase in deaths in 2016 was disappointing and efforts to tackle safety had redoubled, Griffith said.  About payments to bereaved families, Botha said it was not necessary to go into details, just to disclose in general terms what life insurance cover was applicable to employees.

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