2022 Sasol Sustainability Report - Book - Page 11
SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AGAINST OUR FOCUS AREAS
INTRODUCTION
DATA AND ASSURANCE
SAFE AND ENDURING OPERATIONS
Occupational safety and HSI programme
The safety of our people and service providers is our Group top priority and is one
of our material matters. We aim to make this possible through our approach to
humanising safety through committed leadership, engaged people, teamwork
and dedicated focus.
TARGETS
OUR GROUP APPROACH
• Institutionalising safety as a leadership imperative through a culture of care and discipline.
RCR of
HSI severity
rate (HSI-SR) of
fatalities
0,26
Lost workday case
rate (LWDCR) of
Five (2022)
0,27 (2022)
0,10 (2022)
16,00 (2022)
Two (2021)
0,26 (2021)
0,14 (2021)
9,79 (2021)
Zero
0,13
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• Fostering reliable, safe and sustainable operations through a safe and healthy workforce.
• Eliminating fatalities by embedding our HSI elimination programme.
• Perform business customised programmes and share successes and challenges in a quarterly
Group SHE meeting lead by the CEO.
GROUP
PERFORMANCE
2022 PRIORITIES
WHAT WE ARE DOING
Sasol Chemicals Business
Sasol Energy Business
Corporate Centre
• Strive for Zero Harm
• Making Zero Harm an operational reality
• Promote physical, emotional and mental wellbeing of
our workforce.
• Deliberate focus on critical control verification
Embedding the HSI programme remained a priority, despite
most of our Corporate Centre employees working from home as
part of risk mitigation. We focused on the following themes:
• Enriching the HSI programme with humanising safety as a leadership imperative
The SHE and risk approach has seven key focus areas which
are part of our integrated key responses in addressing safety.
These focus areas are:
Our leadership teams remain committed to focus on SHE risk management, incident
management and SHE assurance by:
• accountable leadership and engaged people;
• Supporting continued efforts to embed our HSI programme with a specific focus on
process safety fundamentals and maturing on critical SHE and operational processes;
• HSI reduction programme;
• risk management;
• SHE and risk technology enablement;
• environment;
• process safety management; and
• product logistics safety.
We have focused on the following elements of humanising safety:
• caring for our people;
• inclusion and consideration of human factors in incident
investigations and process safety management;
• revitalisation of behaviour-based safety systems; and
• Enhancing our incident management process by improving the quality of root cause
analysis and embedding learnings throughout the organisation;
• Driving the behaviour transformation approach to shift safety leadership climate;
• Active leadership involvement in risk identification and management thereof prior
to task execution;
• Focusing on the quality and frequency of first level and second level of assurance
processes;
• Continued focus on field verification and improvement of the effectiveness of
critical controls; and
• Embedding humanising safety as a leadership imperative to augment the
HSI programme and Sasol’s People Promise.
• attention to leadership development and values on all levels.
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• Leadership engaging and committing to encourage core safety
behaviours;
• Humanising safety through showing care for ourselves, others
and our service providers;
• Creating awareness of the risks in our areas of accountability
and the processes that are in place to control these risks; and
• Keeping individuals and teams connected, in the moment and
supporting each other in a work-from-home environment.
Leadership teams are committed to continuing with our
HSI programme by enabling our workforce to make informed
decisions and to prevent incidents through effective risk
management practices and adherence to life saving rules.