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SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AGAINST OUR FOCUS AREAS
INTRODUCTION
DATA AND ASSURANCE
SAFE AND ENDURING OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Product life cycle stages
1. BUY STAGE
2. MAKE STAGE
System controls that were introduced in 2021 into our South African procurement process, continue
to limit the risk of any inadvertent non-compliant purchases of controlled chemicals without the
necessary authorisation and permits in place. This Sasol product registration process also assists with
ensuring supplier compliance with recently promulgated Regulation for Hazardous Chemicals Agents (RHCA)
in South Africa, which is aimed at domesticating the Global Harmonized System (GHS) for product labelling.
Sasol has also issued communications to our suppliers to ensure supplier awareness and compliance with RHCA.
We continued to prioritise the compliant, safe and responsible manufacturing of products through implementation
of the procedure which supports compliance with chemical control legislation. Further updates and development of
appropriate training material on chemical control legislation and the safe handling of hazardous chemicals continued to be
rolled out to targeted employees along the value chain. During 2022, Sasol Energy Business commenced with a number of
initiatives as part of its continuous drive to improve product quality and sustainability. A Product Fit for Purpose Protocol
and a Product risk and opportunity management tool, was reviewed and updated with an increased focus on a product
stewardship and product environmental sustainability. A preliminary Life Cycle Assessment Roadmap was developed, which
once approved is expected to be implemented over a number of years to cover the full Energy Business product portfolio.
The Southern African Vinyls Association (SAVA) issued a certificate of compliance to Sasol Chemicals for successfully
meeting the requirements of SAVA’s Product Stewardship Commitment which is aimed at addressing SHE issues from the
manufacture and storage of PVC products, hence Sasol is authorised to display the SAVA Green Tick on its PVC products.
6. END-OF-LIFE STAGE
Recognising the environmental harm posed by plastic waste, we support the South African (SA)
promulgated Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation that enables the effective collection
and beneficial recycling or re-use of plastic materials. In 2022, we executed on the developed plans to
ensure our timeous compliance with the promulgated South African Section 18 EPR scheme notice.
We continue to work closely with the broader industry value chain stakeholders to embed EPR and
achieve the required positive intended outcomes of this scheme.
Further the SA department has been developing a lubricant sector EPR notice. Sasol since 1994
has been actively involved in the voluntary South African EPR lubricant scheme through
our participation as a founding member in the Recycling Oil Saves Lives (ROSE) Foundation
and hence this placed Sasol in a good position to actively guide the proposed legislative
framework in this regard.
The methodology and revised Tier 2 (country specific) carbon emission factor for Sasol’s
methane rich gas produced from Secunda Operation was approved by DFFE in July 2021,
with the condition that it is reviewed every 3 years. The benefit thereof, is a more
representative emission factor providing more accurate scope 3 emissions reporting.
5. USAGE STAGE
3. SELL STAGE
We implement all applicable regulatory requirements, including being proactive
to developing legislation, to secure and maintain our licence to manufacture and sell
products in the numerous markets we serve. In 2022, work continued to revise and update
REACH registrations for chemicals we produce or import into Europe following dossier
and substance evaluations by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and the
European Union (EU) Member States. This process will continue in the coming years,
since all substance dossiers will undergo evaluation.
MAKE
STAGE
BUY
STAGE
PRODUCT
LIFE CYCLE
STAGES
END-OFLIFE
STAGE
SELL
STAGE
New chemical notifications were also filed in the United States, Canada, China, South
Korea and Taiwan, among others. In Korea the first full registrations have been filed
under the K-REACH scheme. In Turkey, all relevant substances have been pre-registered
under Turkey REACH and in 2022 the full registrations will be initiated, where deemed
necessary to support Sasol direct customers in Turkey.
Customer assessments and training to ensure the responsible and effective
use of our products is an important contributor to Sasol’s Responsible
Care® commitment.
Aligned to this, Sasol Chemicals Life Cycle management provides support to clients
through formalised technical assessments and site evaluations, thus providing due
diligence in terms of audits, storage requirements, product hazard characteristics and usage
of our chemicals. The cyanide training strategy was optimised to create inhouse capability and
competency within our Mining customers so that they can embed safe management of cyanide
deeper within their organisation. To enable this, Mining customers were provided with comprehensive
safety training together with the required supporting training material.
USAGE
STAGE
LOGISTICS
STAGE
4. LOGISTICS STAGE
Our Transport Indicator of Performance (TIoP) is a group-wide measure of the incident
severity rate as a function of product transport distance travelled. TIoP is split into two
components: the TIoP reflecting on avoidable incidents, where the transporter driver could
reasonably have done something more to prevent an incident, and the TIoP reflecting on the
unavoidable component where all incident preventative controls were adhered to and nothing
further could reasonably have been done to avoid the incident. Though there is an increase in the
TIoP there is generally good consistent logistics performance.
PERFORMANCE
2022
2021
2020
2019
66
0,86
0
50
0,59
0
167
1,84
1
260
2,84
19
Increase
Sasol has filed “downstream user import notifications” (DUINs) for all products that
were shipped to UK customers in 2019 and 2020 to support the existing business.
For new products/new businesses and customers in the UK we have started
to file full registrations in 2022.
The EU REACH regulation will be revised in the coming year hence Sasol has started
initial preparations to fulfil future requirements.
Each month, we handle about 1 000 queries of a technical or product stewardship nature from our customers. We have a formal
system through which we deal with these, using controls to ensure that we provide accurate information. Increasingly, customers
request information regarding the environmental footprint of the products they buy from Sasol. We have completed life cycle inventory
work for some of our chemicals products and have started expanding the analysis to include products produced at our Secunda and
Sasolburg sites. So far, we have performed a cradle-to-gate life cycle inventory analysis on almost 100 intermediate and final products.
Where available and requested, we share the results with customers.
Total severity of incidents
TIoP
Number of third party and transporter fatalities
Sasol remains committed to the signed declaration of intent to support ECHA’s
and the Joint Action Plan of the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC)
to proactively and systematically review and improve, if needed, the data
previously submitted in REACH registration dossiers.
Decrease
We continue to implement learnings from incident investigations and improve operational
discipline to improve product transport safety performance. In 2022 an exercise was initiated
to reinforce onsite product transportation controls through the development of the transporter
minimum requirements which are mandatory to all Sasol’s product transport service providers.
No change
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