As South Africa’s oldest and largest metal recycler, we at SA Metal Group (Pty) Ltd recognise and appreciate our unique role as an industry leader and are therefore committed to driving sustainability as a core value in strategic decision making.

As an organisation we embrace our duty of care to current and future generations and strive towards zero Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) harm to all stakeholders affected by our operations.

To this end we have adopted an integrated approach to the management of SHEQ risks and opportunities by implementing risk-based systems and processes to ensure the continued success of our organisation and its stakeholders.

Through organisation-wide responsibility and accountability, we are committed to:

• Institutionalising SHEQ leadership as a core business function.
• The consultation and participation of workers, and, where they exist, with workers’ representatives.
• Providing safe and healthy working conditions for the prevention of work-related injuries and ill health, that is appropriate to our purpose, size and context of our organization.
• Embracing a multi-faceted approach to integrated SHEQ risk mitigation and opportunity realisation.
• Fulfilling the requirements and intent of legislation and other compliance obligations pertaining to our operations.
• Continually measuring ourselves against international best practice in everything we do.
• The implementation of Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound (SMART) objectives to promote continual SHEQ performance improvement.
• Ensuring continuous improvement through targeted SHEQ education, training and awareness.
• Conduct our business dealings with the highest ethical standards.
• Providing adequate resources in a timeous manner to achieve our SHEQ objectives.
• The responsible utilization of our valuable natural resources.
• The protection of the environment, including the prevention of pollution.
• Making this policy available to all interested and affected parties.
• Always striving to exceed our customers’ expectations.

We believe the long term success of SA Metal Group (Pty) Ltd depends on the ability to continually improve the quality, diversity and value of our products and services in order to enhance customer satisfaction while protecting people and the environment and will periodically review our strategic direction through policy and management system reviews and continual revision of our strategic objectives.