From a Human Capital perspective we are very well situated for the coming year to make big steps towards achieving our vision and target objectives with regard to the human capital within our organization. Much hard work and system/procedure overhaul has taken place in the last year and this has placed the organization on a very firm footing to maximize the potential we have within our staff and management team.

It is expected to be a very difficult wage negotiation year for our operational staff, but we are hopeful that our transparent and fair leadership will guide us through a very turbulent year in labour relations for the entire Steel Industry.

We are very excited about the rapid rise of our internal training and development programme and this will be a very rewarding area to invest time, funding and energy into. We are already seeing positive results delivered from this programme and much more is yet to come.

Our focus on support and HR best practice for the operations outside South Africa will continue to be a key factor to develop and sustain going forward.

The creative sourcing and retention of talent within the various operations will as always play a major part in the success of the business. It is our belief that our unique company culture needs to be nurtured and sustained all the time in order to continue to make us seen by all stakeholders as the Employer of Choice within our industry. To this end we anticipate the positive outcome of the overhaul of our vision, mission and behavior code.

Our resources within the HR team have bedded down their expertise and have grown in depth over the last year to deal effectively with the upcoming challenges. Much anticipation and excitement can be found within our HR team – with focus on continuous improvement for the year ahead.

As always we all continue to uphold behavior code number 1: WORK HARD – PLAY HARD - HAVE FUN!

Chantal Lombaard - Group HR Director