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REPORT This year, Brickworks Limited (Brickworks) has prepared a stand-alone Sustainability Report to complement the Annual Report, providing expanded disclosure on our non-financial performance, impacts and opportunities. It has been informed for the first time by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards, a leading independent Environmental, Social and Governance reporting standard. With the assistance of EY, we have expanded our materiality review, by interviewing internal and external stakeholders, investigating customer expectations and reviewing a range of publications. Further information is available in the Stakeholder Engagement and Materiality Assessment Process sections of this report. EY provided a Statement of Independence to support this materiality review.
The reporting period for most topics is 1 August 2018 to 31 July 2019, aligned with the Brickworks financial year. An exception is energy and carbon data, where the reporting period is 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019, aligned with the National Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reporting Scheme. Details of our fundraising efforts for the Children’s Cancer Institute are for the 2018 calendar year.
The Sustainability Report provides detailed information on the issues that have been identified as most significant through our materiality review. Details on our GRI Index is included in the Appendix.
As part of our expanded disclosure, EY performed a Limited Assurance1 engagement for metrics internally identified as significant risks, including:
The boundary of the Sustainability Report covers Brickworks Limited’s Australian operations where the company has operational control. The sustainability performance of our recently acquired U.S. operations Glen-Gery will be included in the FY20 Sustainability Report, following the integration of the operations with Brickworks’ Management Systems. However, some coverage of the Glen-Gery operations is included in this report.
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◗ Lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR) ◗ Total recordable injury frequency rate (TRIFR) ◗ Environmental fines ◗ Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption A copy of the Limited Assurance Statement from this audit is included in this report.
This year, the Limited Assurance was limited to Australian Operations only.
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