2009 Sustainability Report - Data and Glossary.

Glossary and abbreviations

ABS	Australian Bureau of Statistics
ACCC	Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
ACF	Australian Conservation Foundation
ACJP	Australian Climate Justice Program
ACM	Australian Construction Materials division
ASX	Australian Securities Exchange
BCA	Business Council of Australia
BCSC	Blue Circle Southern Cement
BFS	Boral Formwork & Scaffolding
BMTI	Boral Material Technologies Inc
BPE	Best Practice Element
BPIC	Building Products Innovation Council
BSDT	Boral Sustainability Diagnostic Tool
C&C	Clay & Concrete Products division
Calcination	The process of reducing limestone to lime and carbon dioxide to produce cement
CCS	Carbon capture and storage
CDM	Clean Development Mechanism
CDP	Carbon Disclosure Project
Cement	A mixture of calcined limestone and clay; cement is a binder used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete
CO₂	Carbon dioxide equivalent
Concrete	A building material composed of sand, gravel, cement & water
CNG	Compressed Natural Gas
CRB	Construction Related Businesses division
CRI	Corporate Responsibility Index
CPRS	Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
CVA	Conservation Volunteers Australia
DECC	Department of Environment and Climate Change (NSW)
Demerger	The separation of Boral’s building and construction materials business and energy business, which occurred in February 2000. The energy business is now a separate Australian listed company, Origin Energy
DEUS	Department of Energy Utilities and Sustainability (now DECC )
DJSI	Dow Jones Sustainability (Asia Pacific) Index
DMG	De Martin & Gasparini
DRET	Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism
DRP	Dividend Reinvestment Plan
EBIT	Earnings before interest and tax
EBITDA	Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation
ECCTWG	Energy and Climate Change Technical Working Group
EEO	Energy Efficiency Opportunities
EGM	Executive General Manager
EITE	Emissions-intensive trade-exposed
EMS	Environment Management System
EOP	Executive Option Plan
EOWA	Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency
EPA	Environmental Protection Authority
EPS	Earnings per share
FACT	Fly ash carbon treatment
Fly Ash	A by-product of coal-fired electricity generating plants; with cementitious properties it is used as an additive in cement
FTE	Full-time equivalent; used for reporting the number of employees and contractors
FY	Financial Year
GJ	Gigajoule
GHG	Greenhouse gases are gases in the atmosphere that are linked to the greenhouse effect. The main GHG are CO₂ and methane.
GRI	Global Reporting Initiative
GRA	Gypsum Resources Australia

HIA	Housing Industry Association
HR	Human resources
H&S	Health and safety
HSE	Health, safety and environment
JDRF	Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
JV	Joint venture
LBGA	Lafarge Boral Gypsum in Asia; the joint venture is 50% owned by Boral and 50% owned by Lafarge
LCI/LCA	Life-cycle inventory/life-cycle analysis
LEED	Leadership in Industry and Environment Design, an internationally recognised green building certification system
Lime	Oxide of calcium (CaO) produced by heating limestone
Limestone	A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate (CaCO₂)
LTI	Lost time injury; an injury which causes an employee to be absent from work for one or more full days or shifts on any day subsequent to the injury occurring
LTI	Long term incentive
LTIFR	Lost time injury frequency rate; the number of employee lost time injuries per million hours worked during a period.
LUAC	Large User Abatement Certificate
MLT	MonierLifetile
NGAC	NSW Greenhouse Abatement Certificate
NGERS	National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting System
NPI	National Pollutant Inventory
NSW GGAS	NSW Greenhouse Gas Reduction Scheme
OHS	Occupational health and safety
Operating sites	Wholly owned or at least 50% owned JV operating site excluding sales, administration and distribution offices
PACT	Powdered activated carbon treatment
PEP	Performance Enhancement Program
Precautionary Principle	Where there are threats of serious or irreversible environmental damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to prevent environmental degradation
QEU	Quarry End Use
RAP	Recycled asphalt pavement
Recycle	Waste material used in a new product
Re-use	Waste material used back into the same product
RHS&B	Roads, highways, subdivisions and bridges
RI FR	Recordable injury frequency rate; the number of employee injuries that result in medical treatment as well as those that result in lost work time per million work hours
ROFE	Return on funds employed
SAR	Share Acquisition Rights
SBE	Standard brick equivalent
SEDA	Sustainable Energy Development Authority (now integrated into DECC)
SEPL	Sawmillers Exports Pty Ltd
SIB	Stay-in-business
Squares	A measure of area used in roofing in the USA; one square = 100 square feet
Staff turnover	The number of employee departures during the year divided by the average number of full-time equivalent employees during year, and multiplied by 100
STI	Short term incentive
TSR	Total shareholder return; an annualised calculation which takes into consideration both capital and dividend returns
Total sites	Wholly owned or at least 50% owned JV operating sites and sales, administration and distribution offices
Tranches	Additional securities/loans based on a common attribute such as date issued
Water usage	Reported water usage is the amount of mains water consumed for the 12 month period to 30 June or in some cases for the 12 month period covered by usage invoices that most closely match the financial year ended 30 June
WACC	Weighted average cost of capital (including the cost of debt and the cost of equity)

Sustainability Data Table

For the year ended 30 June

2009

2008

2007

Boral's sites

Operating sites	706	718	707
Total sites	854	867	851
Operating countries	13	12	11

Human Resources

People and safety

Employees, FTE's	14,766	15,928	16,194
Contractors, FTEs	~5,700	~7,000	—
Joint venture employees	~3,000	~3,400	~3,500
Employee LTIFR, per million hours worked	1.8	2.5	2.8
Contractor LTIFR, per million hours worked	2.4	5.7	5.7
Employee hours lost, %	0.06	0.08	0.09
Contractor hours lost, %	0.03	0.09	0.09

Environment

Greenhouse gas emissions

CO2, tonnes (millions)	3.62	3.94¹	3.93¹
Equity share of JV CO2, tonnes (millions)	0.18	0.20	0.19

Energy consumed

Coal, tonnes (‘000)	282.72	283.67	273.95
Natural gas, petajoules	10.53	13.20	14.31
Electricity, GWh	704.35	830.12	795.20
Diesel, litres (millions)	155.99	162.23	156.90
LPG, litres (millions)	13.07	4.72	5.15
Petrol, litres (millions)	6.85	8.44	9.31
Alternative fuels, petajoules	2.09	1.79	2.16

Water consumption

Mains water, litres (millions)	2,285.06	2,819.80	2,932.49
River water, litres (millions)	161.03	308.34	306.41
Surface water, litres (millions)	2,935.82	2,866.52	349.46
Ground/bore water, litres (millions)	604.58	791.93	130.04

Waste

Waste product produced, tonnes (‘000)	1,001.85	1,372.21	977.06
Waste recycled/re-used², %	38 - 114	43 -100	33 - 100
External waste used, tonnes (‘000)	3,805.18	4,322.91	2,298.74

Social responsibility

Community investment

Community investment in eight key partnerships (total cash and materials)	$569,853	$591,500	$594,280
Employee fundraising	$600,422	$443,000	$336,000

Boral Reserves³

For the year ended 30 June 2009	Million tonnes	Years of reserves⁴
Hard rock, sand and gravel
Australia	1,131	38
USA	98	36
Asia	66	38
Limestone and shale
Australia	101	25
Clay
Australia	96	45
USA	110	35

NOTE: Data is for Boral Limited and 100% owned and controlled subsidiaries, unless otherwise stated.
1 Restated to reflect new reporting methodologies, enhanced data collection and review processes.
2 Boral’s waste recycled/re-used represents a range across Boral’s products.
3 Comprises reserves which are licensed for extraction and economically recoverable, with geological certainty in the proven and probable category.
4 Typically, "years of reserves" are calculated based on current production rates; however, for the USA this number has been calculated based on longer-term average production rates, given the current significant downturn in demand.