Sustainability

SOCIAL, ETHICS AND TRANSFORMATION COMMITTEE (COMMITTEE)

In compliance with the requirements of the Companies Act 71 of 2008, this Committee operates in terms of a mandate, which contains detailed provisions relating to its terms of reference, duties, composition, role and responsibilities.

THE ROLE AND FUNCTION OF THE COMMITTEE

The Committee is responsible for assisting the Board in monitoring and reporting on social, ethical, transformational and sustainability practices consistent with good corporate citizenship and assisting the Group to discharge its business responsibilities. Statutorily, the Committee is responsible for monitoring the Group’s activities as per the Company’s Act, with regard to:

  • Social and economic development;
  • Good Corporate citizenship;
  • Environment, health and public safety;
  • Stakeholder management; and
  • Labour and employment practices.
Composition and Meetings

The Committee consists of three non-executive directors, two of whom are independent and two executive directors. The attendance of the Committee meetings was as follows:

  Meeting attendance  
Chairman    
M Makwana 4/4  
Members    
A Hall 4/4  
T Lesoli 4/4  
B Letsoalo 4/4  
A Mokgokong 4/4  
Invitees    
Dante Mashile (Adcock Ingram – Public Affairs Executive) 2/2  
D Nabarro (Marsh Risk Advisor) 4/4  
S Pietropaolo (Adcock Ingram – Head of Internal Audit) 4/4  
K Kalicharan (Adcock Ingram – Corporate Communications Manager) 3/3  
V St Quintin (Adcock Ingram – Corporate Communications Manager) 1/1  

During the year the Committee reviewed the terms of reference including the six capitals to align to King IV. Below are some of the key considerations by the Committee in 2018:

MANUFACTURED

Monitored the health and safety standards and statistics for the Group.

Introduced a recovery to expense ratio metric to measure factory performance and sustainability.

Monitored the further rollout of owner-driver scheme.



Refer to Manufactured capital

HUMAN

Tracked talent management for the Group.

Reviewed Code of ethics and conduct, organisational behaviour and addressed weak controls which were identified.

Monitored the economic transformation initiatives, the achievements and challenges of the EE plan, the B-BBEE score card and associated risks.

Refer to Human capital

INTELLECTUAL

Monitored regulatory compliance.

Monitored submission of product applications and amendments.

Monitored compliance to advertising standards.

Monitored the Company’s media exposure.


Refer to Intellectual capital

NATURAL

Monitored the Group environmental initiatives such as:

  • Energy consumption;
  • Water consumption; and
  • Carbon footprint.










Refer to Natural capital

SOCIAL AND RELATIONSHIP

Monitored and assessed the Corporate Social Initiatives.

Assessed the stakeholder management activity report.

Supported management’s implementation of the Youth Employment Services (YES) Programme.



Refer to Social and relationship capital



NEW AUTOMATED PERITONEAL DIALYSIS SYSTEM LAUNCHED IN SOUTH AFRICA

CASE STUDY

Maretha SchoemanProviding remote patient management for doctors and their patients at home

This year has seen the Critical Care division, in conjunction with Baxter, introducing the Homechoice Claria automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) system with the Sharesource remove patient management platform. This is the first and only two-way, telehealth machine to support home dialysis therapy. The system delivers important and accurate patient treatment information to healthcare professionals, allowing for more timely and personalised care as clinicians can now review patients’ dialysis sessions without seeing the patients. This unique system is designed to be more intuitive for patients to operate in their home and while travelling. Thanks to this feature, patients don’t have to keep journals and clinics don’t have to bother creating reports from those journals, since all that is done automatically.

Testimony from an employee

“Today I had the privilege of training a very courageous and amazing young lady, Sibonile and her Mother Phindiwe Jose.”

Sibonile was diagnosed with Cystinosis just after her first birthday. Trying to lead a normal life as a toddler and teenager took major strain on the family. After a couple of years her parents got divorced and the entire responsibility was on the shoulders of her Mother, Phindiwe.

Between being a Grade seven English and Science teacher in Somerset East, Phindiwe’s life is the centre of Sibonele existence. They are inseparable and depend on each other for inspiration, assistance, faith and existence.

The morning was spent training both Phindiwe and Sibonele on the new Home Choice Claria machine at the Adcock Ingram offices in Port Elizabeth.

Sibonele was struggling with the previous automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) machine, with error codes etc., so in the last couple of months she could not complete a full peritoneal dialysis (PD) cycle at night. With the new Home Choice Claria, both patient and Professor Freerck from Livingstone will get a clear indication on Sibonile’s treatment on a daily basis. This also makes the frequent trips to Livingstone in Port Elizabeth easier as the doctor is now able to view Sibonele profile on a daily basis from his practice and can make the necessary changes without Sibonele visiting the Livingstone PD unit. Visits can now be done on a monthly basis as Sibongele lives in Somerset East, approximately a two-hour drive from Port Elizabeth.

Sibonele matriculated at Gill College in 2017 and is currently studying Business Management. She has completed three of her five modules for 2018 and hopes to continue her studies through Unisa in 2019.” – Shinene Posthumus

Testimony from an employee