2022 Sasol Sustainability Report - Book - Page 16
INTRODUCTION
SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AGAINST OUR FOCUS AREAS
DATA AND ASSURANCE
SAFE AND ENDURING OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Occupational health
Sasol follows an integrated risk approach to managing occupational health and
wellbeing, where leading best practices inform our continuous improvement of
occupational health performance towards our goal of Zero Harm.
OUR APPROACH
Our occupational health approach, founded on governance framework requirements for
occupational health and wellbeing services, delivered by capable healthcare professionals, includes:
• Management of exposure to physical, chemical, biological and ergonomic factors;
• Prevention of occupational diseases and injuries; and
• Promotion of health and work ability, rehabilitation and return-to-work as well as first aid
and curative services.
WHAT WE ARE DOING
PERFORMANCE
Our businesses implement and align their occupational health services according to the Group requirements,
consisting of the following functional areas:
OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE
Preventing and managing occupational and work-aggravated as well
as lifestyle diseases through medical surveillance programmes, primary
health care, injury-on-duty management and rehabilitation and
return-to-work programmes.
OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE
Identifying occupational health hazards and advising on the
implementation of preventative controls and work practices to
eliminate and/or mitigate exposures in the workplace.
INTEGRATION WITH
EMPLOYEE WELLBEING
Enabling a holistic approach to health and wellbeing of our employees
and the employees of service providers.
MEDICAL EMERGENCY
RESPONSE
Facilitating a standardised approach to responding in medical
emergencies.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Communicating and raising awareness on the health impacts of
Sasol operations within the surrounding communities.
SERVICE PROVIDER
HEALTH DELIVERY
Following an aligned approach to that of Sasol for the employees
of service providers.
In 2022, the number of reportable occupational diseases increased. The most commonly reported
occupational disease was the result of exposure to workplace noise. The occupational health services
have resumed normal activities being mindful of the disruption the COVID-19 pandemic had in the
previous reporting period, necessitating a priority and risk-based approach to health services.
In addition, we are aware of the latency factor between risk exposure and the onset of disease.
We are confident that the benefit of effective health risk exposure management with continuous
improvement on engineering, administrative and personal protective equipment (PPE) controls will
reflect in later reporting periods.
We continue to:
• identify and manage the exposure of workers with non-reportable work-related noise-induced loss
of hearing;
• closely monitor occupational and biological exposure for potential and known exposure to
identified carcinogens and teratogens within the petrochemical environment;
• improve our diagnostic screening capabilities in our medical centres; and
• assess effective measures to eliminate and reduce occupational health risk exposure in the workplace.
Statutory reported occupational diseases
Occupational disease incident rate
Incidents of work-related noise-induced hearing loss
Mining occupational diseases
Irreversible lung disease
SASOL SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2022
Increase
15
2022
2021
38
0,052
23
28
8
32
0,049
22
21
10
Decrease
No change