2022 Sasol Sustainability Report - Book - Page 22
SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AGAINST OUR FOCUS AREAS
INTRODUCTION
DATA AND ASSURANCE
SAFE AND ENDURING OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Process safety
Process safety is important to ensure that we maintain reliable, safe and
sustainable operations.
OUR APPROACH
TARGETS
Through the application of the Process Safety Management (PSM) system, we address process
hazards, process knowledge, process safety risk management, process safety performance and
learning through experiences, thereby striving to Zero Harm. Process safety integrity is enabled
through adhering to inherent safe design, asset management and operations discipline as guided
by international best practice in order to maintain reliable and safe operations.
Fires, explosions
and releases severity
rate (FER-SR)
Process safety
incidents less
than or equal to
3,9 (2022) vs
13 (2022) vs
5,0 (2021)
20 (2021)
6,9
GROUP
PERFORMANCE
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WHAT WE ARE DOING
Sasol Chemicals Business
Sasol Energy Business
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 People: being accountable to leadership
and engaged people; the high severity incident reduction programme; risk management;
enabling SHE and Risk technology; environmental, process safety management; and product
logistics safety.
We are continuing to implement and monitor the 5th HSI focus area (loss of primary containment) in all Sasol sites to ensure
continuous improvement.
PSM includes the following:
• Conducting incident recall to ensure that the learnings have been effectively implemented in all Sasol sites;
To enable continuous improvement, our PSM priorities include:
• Revisiting the process safety risk studies to ensure effective and sustainable closure of actions;
• Performing process safety field observations;
• Embedding process safety fundamentals;
• Strengthening controls related to operational activities or tasks by improving our permit-to-work system;
• Adherence to standards and procedures;
• Revising the management of change process to avoid incidents due to personnel changes;
• Assurance of critical controls;
• Strong focus on return to service process to eliminate fires, explosions and releases (FERs); and
• Continuous focus on leading and lagging indicators to improve performance.
• Reviewing the critical control performance criteria to strengthen the first level of assurance;
• Implementing the PSM audit programme to provide improved assurance on the integrity of the process safety controls;
• Continuing to perform thorough analyses of the incident root causes and precursors; and implementing measures
to prevent the recurrence of incidents; and
• Continuing to monitor process safety leading and lagging indicators to identify and address weaknesses in the controls.
PERFORMANCE
Significant FERs
FER-SR
2022
2021
6
8,1
6
10,8
Improvements are
noted in our PSM
with a decreasing
FER-SR
Significant FERs
FER-SR
2022
2021
7
2,9
14
3,8
The FER-SR
improved
Increase
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Decrease
No change