Murray & Roberts has adopted a non-negotiable commitment to sustainable earnings growth and value creation, enhancing the growth of its business and adding value in a responsible and sustainable manner. This non-negotiable commitment is extended to:

Zero harm to
•	Company and employees	•	Societies and environments we serve

•	Business partners and shareholders		and within which we operate

•	Fatality & Disabling injury = 0

People development
•	Leadership, management and skills	– Training & succession

•	Diversity and empowerment	– Representative of society

This commitment drives strategy and decision making and reinforces responsibility to create value for current and future stakeholders and generations.

The safety of our employees, contractors and visitors to our sites is a key priority and receives significant focus from me personally and the Group’s operating leadership teams. Despite our efforts, nine of our colleagues lost their lives while working for us during the year under review. The new financial year started on a sad note following the death of six Murray & Roberts employees and one contractor employee in three separate incidents. Five colleagues working on the Murray & Roberts Cementation Marikana project passed away tragically in a fall of ground incident on 6 July 2010. Regrettably, another Murray & Roberts Cementation employee passed away at the Kroondal Kopenang shaft on 13 August 2010 after a load haul dumper accident. The third incident occurred on 17 August 2010 at Park Station on the Gautrain project, when a contractor employee fell approximately seven metres and sustained fatal injuries. Every fatality touches all of us and I am personally committed to eliminating hazards and inappropriate behaviour to ensure that all our people go home safely at the end of each day.

The South African competition authorities have initiated a wide ranging investigation into all aspects of potential collusion in the construction industry. In compliance with its legal obligation, Murray & Roberts took an industry lead before any public concern was expressed on possible corruption in the sector. The Group was a founding signatory to the Partnership against Corruption Initiative of the World Economic Forum in 2004. It initiated internal audits across its various operations and continues a program of communication and training to assist employees in understanding competition law and its implications for the Group. Where any evidence of possible collusion is uncovered, disclosure is made and full cooperation is given to the authorities.

We continue to play an important role in social development through employment and training opportunities, infrastructure provision, local business development and payment of taxes in our host countries.

We are committed to supporting the communities within which we operate through our corporate social investment and Letsema empowerment trusts, which support university and school upliftment, early childhood development and the development of youth affected and infected by HIV/AIDS and impacted by poverty.

We continue to invest significantly in the training and development of our employees at all levels, providing a range of training, learning and career development opportunities for our people. We place a high level of emphasis on developing skilled artisans and supervisors. We invest much time and effort on building our pipeline of talent and have a well established leadership succession and development process which aims to ensure that we have the required talent to meet our strategic objectives.

Murray & Roberts broadly reflects the demographic profile of the communities within which it operates. This results in a diverse workforce on multiple dimensions. Discrimination across these dimensions invariably exists in our workplaces and we continuously challenge the status quo of this endemic tendency to discriminate.

We have continued to build our broad-based black economic empowerment and employment equity profiles with many operations having improved their ratings through the year. However, transformation within our South African operations still remains a challenge and we will continue to strive for a more representative make-up of our leadership and workforce.

Murray & Roberts aspires for zero harm in all aspects of its business – its people, partners and clients, the natural environment in which it operates and society in general. It is up to all of us to make this happen, and it starts with me and our leadership teams.

A 20 metre span two metre high bridge was constructed to protect the roots of a 500 year old yellowwood tree growing alongside the recently upgraded N2 highway between Tsitsikamma and Witelsbos

Brian Bruce
Group chief executive