Table 4

Summary of findings on SSCM practices

CaseSSCM practices
PolicyProgrammeProcedure
AInternal reporting:
  • Regular reporting by ethics and compliance committee (board-level committee)

  • External reporting:

  • MSCI; Ecovadis; GRI index; SASB indicators

Audit programme:
  • Supplier code of conduct and audit programme, based on international codes

  • Hazardous substance management:

  • Software for collecting substance data

Environmental design, including:
  • Eco portfolio

  • Refurbished equipment

  • Management systems, standards, and certifications:

  • ISO 14001, ISO 9001, ISO 45001

BInternal reporting:
  • Safety and environment reporting tool

  • Environmental risk assessments

  • External reporting:

  • Annual report and sustainability reporting

  • Investor questionnaires

Audit programme:
  • Supplier code of conduct

  • Risk-based know-your-counterparty process

  • Science-based target initiative:

  • Lessen climate risks

  • Cut emissions and improve the low-carbon portfolio

Environmental design:
  • Low-carbon and circular products

  • Preventive maintenance programmes

  • Research and technology development:

  • Real-time equipment data

  • Data science lab

  • Utilising smart technologies for eco-efficient features

CInternal reporting:
  • Safety and environment reporting tool

  • Environmental risk assessments

Safety campaign on:
  • Zero harm

  • Building the safest places underground

Research and technology development:
  • Virtual reality simulator for tunnelling operations (concrete spray)

DInternal reporting:
  • Hazard analysis

  • External reporting:

  • GRI and Dow Jones Sustainability Index

Research and technology development
  • Mining automation systems

  • Smart features

Source(s): Authors own work

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