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INTRODUCTION
SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AGAINST OUR FOCUS AREAS
DATA AND ASSURANCE
SAFE AND ENDURING OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Human rights
Respect for human rights and ensuring the dignity of our stakeholders is critical.
We respect and uphold human rights and ensure that they are integrated into our
business practices.
• Employee awareness campaigns highlighting Sasol’s commitment to Human Rights.
• Annual publication of our modern slavery statement, combined with awareness
communication to our suppliers on human trafficking.
• Supplier due diligence questionnaire demonstrating steps taken to effectively identify
and manage business and human rights risks.
• Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Due Diligence Guidelines relating to business and human
rights developed to inform potential M&A transactions.
OUR APPROACH
Our approach to business and human rights is aligned with the UN Guiding Principles on Business
and Human Rights (UNGPs) and the UN Global Compact and informed by the jurisdictions in which
we operate. It is set out in our Code of Conduct, supported by other policies and practices together
with our compliance programmes. We encourage our joint ventures, business partners and
suppliers to implement similar policies within their business.
• Supplier due diligence questionnaire embedded within supplier screening and due diligence
process, as part of ensuring policies and practices on preventing forced labour, child labour,
discrimination, harassment, etc is in place.
• Self-assessment questionnaire has been developed and shared with by Sasol Chemicals
and Sasol Energy Businesses as part of the risk review process.
WHAT WE ARE DOING
Implementing a three-phased approach to assess the status of our risk management process in dealing with issues of business and human rights within Sasol
At Sasol, the
responsibility to
advance business
and human rights
resides with the
Executive Director
and Executive Vice
President: Strategy,
Sustainability and
Integrated Services.
Phase 1: Risk assessment
Phase 2: Risk review
Phase 3: Risk mitigation
• Developed the initial Group-wide Sasol
business and human rights risk profile.
• Conducted a bottom-up risk review following the implementation
of Sasol 2.0 to ensure that risks identified in Phase 1 are still
relevant.
• Enable the organisation to implement a systematic and standardised
process to continuously review and update the existing risk profiles,
ensuring that business and human rights are integral to our business
processes.
• The initial risk assessment indicated
that existing risk profiles did not make
explicit reference to human rights
infringements.
• A phased risk management review
approach is being undertaken to put
in place a systematic and standardised
way to identify, prevent, mitigate
and account for adverse impacts on
human rights.
• Intent of the process is to ensure that
there is a remediation process for
instances where there is evidence that
these rights have been infringed upon.
• Developed a business and human rights self-assessment
questionnaire for completion by Sasol Energy and Sasol Chemicals
to identify human rights risks and take the necessary steps to
address, mitigate, prevent and report on business and human
rights infringements.
• Identified the following prioritised focus areas within the
businesses:
– Respecting diversity;
– Offering a safe and healthy working environment
and a secure workplace;
– Understanding the supply chain;
– Respecting the rights of local communities; and
– Managing our environmental footprint.
• Received positive feedback from both businesses and identified
the risk areas which require mitigation from the results of the
self-assessment.
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• Contractually binding our suppliers and prescribing that they meet all
applicable legislative requirements.
• Include business and human rights clauses in all our contract templates
and contracts with third parties as part of the due diligence process.
• Stipulate that our suppliers are required to comply with applicable laws
and the Sasol Supplier Code of Conduct as part of the contracting and
onboarding process.
• Contractually obligate our suppliers to act ethically and fairly and
uphold fundamental business and human rights including fair
labour practices and to be transparent in their business practices in
accordance with our Supplier Code of Conduct.
• Our contract templates stipulate that any failure by a supplier
to comply with the applicable laws and the Sasol Supplier Code of
Conduct may constitute a ground for termination of the agreement
with the supplier.