2022 Sasol Sustainability Report - Book - Page 77
INTRODUCTION
SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AGAINST OUR FOCUS AREAS
DATA AND ASSURANCE
SDG
SDG INDEX
How we contribute
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• Prioritising development interventions that are linked to local community value chain services.
• Training of the unemployed aligned to economic activity.
• Skilling emerging farmers – Gert Sibande District.
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• Establishment of food gardens and provision of breakfast, approximately 4 552 children at the centres
that we support have access to at least one nutritious meal a day.
• Progressed grinding machines project enabling communities to fully process their food in Mozambique.
• Supporting families affected by floods in KZN.
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• Relationship of 15 years between Sasol and Wheelchair Basketball South Africa demonstrates
our commitment to building an inclusive culture and supporting people who are differently abled.
• Empowering small business leaders to learn, connect and be inspired to take charge of
the growth of their businesses through the ’Built to last’ SME webinar series.
• Supplier spend reached of 51% black- owned business and 30% black-women owned businesses.
• We exceeded the local content targets for PPA operations spend by US$11,2 million
(actual of US$29,4 million versus a target of U$18,2 million).
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• We continue to invest in community health infrastructure. We have constructed and upgraded
a number of hospitals and clinics in our fenceline communities. Sasol has also supported
hospitals by providing equipment and PPE and continues to support the youth to address
substance abuse and addiction.
• We are executing on our Plastics Sustainability approach with four key focus areas:
Impact projects, Innovation, Education and Collaboration.
• Our community environmental programme is aimed at improving the quality of life,
facilitating better access to community services and improving health outcomes linked
to environmental risks.
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• Fostering reliable, safe and sustainable operations through a safe and healthy workforce.
• Enabled about 95% of our non-operational Corporate Centre employees to work remotely,
supporting their safety and wellbeing.
• Resumed normal activities of occupational health services, being mindful of the disruption caused
by the COVID-19 pandemic in the previous year, prioritising a risk-based approach to health services.
• Sasol developed an electronic Energy Management System (EnMS) which monitors, measures
and reports monthly EnEf performance of all OPs/RPs against targets from a 2015 baseline.
• We joined the ASD to come up with solutions and be transparent about our operations
around the palm oil and palm kernel oil derivatives supply chain.
• Improve SHE impacts of our products throughout their life cycle.
• Recycled 169 965 thousand cubic meters of water and 131 kilotons of waste.
• We support and advocate for disclosure against best practice standards, such as the TCFD, GRI,
UN SDGs and reporting criteria.
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• Progressing our roadmaps to reduce emissions by 30% by 2030 and achieve Net Zero
ambition by 2050.
• Sourcing renewable energy for our operations to reduce the current electricity scope 2 emissions.
• Air quality offsetting programme resulting in the avoidance of emissions of more than 207 tons
of PM10, 194 tons of PM2,5 and 80 tons of SO2 in the surrounding community airshed.
• Exploring opportunities to use carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies for our
Lake Charles site in the United States.
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• Supporting the partnership between the Water Research Commission and Rhodes University
to address water quality challenges in the Vaal river catchment.
• Implemented a permeable reactive barrier at the Bunsen site to address elevated levels of
nitrates in groundwater.
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• Sasol actively supports the conservation of our natural heritage, which in turn fosters education,
employment and tourism in the communities surrounding our national parks.
• A desktop gap analysis of the biodiversity management aspects was initiated and completed
during in May 2022, which form the basis towards formulating a biodiversity management plan
for the expanded operations.
• Ongoing monitoring on terrestrial biodiversity of a protected wetland area (Verloren Vallei)
in collaboration with the Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency.
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• Supplier due diligence questionnaire to ensure that there are policies and practises
preventing unethical behaviour from our supply chain.
• Self-Assessment Questionnaire has been developed to be used by Sasol Chemicals
and Sasol Energy Businesses as part of the risk review process.
• Review and monitoring of ethics and human rights policies and procedures.
• Ethics training and awareness conducted for 4 095 Sasol employees – 2 137 new employees
provided with ethics training.
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• Four partnering studies announced for Sasol ecoFT sustainable aviation fuels projects.
• Partnered with WomHub to launch a Women in Engineering Business Incubation Programme,
in South Africa.
• Our CEO is a founding member of the ABLC.
• Advancing the sustainability agenda through ongoing engagement and participation
with regulators, governments and industry trade associations.
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Repurposing Sasol bursary programme to address the skills needs for Future Sasol.
Enhancing access to quality education through the Sasol Foundation.
200 teachers and subject advisors from nine provinces trained on 4th Industrial Revolution.
200 Primary Schools in Grade R, 3 and 7 supported with coding and robotics.
3 274 learners trained to compete for World Skills Championship.
120 learners successfully completed robotics test to compete in national championships in North America.
90% transition of bursars from honours to Masters from our cohort which is above national average throughput rate.
Six of our doctoral students are now full-time academics supporting the pool of oncoming graduates.
69 publications produced across 40 MSc and PHD students in 2022.
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• Diversity targets linked to Short Term Incentives (STI).
• Sasol has been the pre-eminent brand behind women’s football for the past 13 years.
• Remuneration Committee approved a methodology to track internal pay equity on a group, level,
race and gender basis by country where we employ more than 205 employees on a permanent basis.
• Launched our Energy Women’s Network, comprising Women’s Conferences, a Self-empowerment Programme,
Mentorship Circles and a Women’s Development Forum.
• Improving the representation of women on the Board, with more than 40% of directors being women.
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• Sasol’s Sasolburg Operations received an outstanding score of 96% up from 86% in 2013,
making it the only private sector company to obtain the Green Drop certification.
• Maintained our signatory status to the UN Global Compact CEO Water Mandate.
• Setting short-term water targets for three largest water using sites in Sasol Energy –
Secunda Operations, Sasolburg and Ekandustria Operations and Sasol Mining.
• Progress towards mine closure at Sigma defunct mine, Sasolburg.
• Enabling adequate quality and sustainable supply of water from the Integrated Vaal River System.
• Initiating the Groot Bosjesspruit wetland re-instatement project through the integrated water and waste
management plan.
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• Introduced procurement of electricity from renewable sources in Sasol Chemicals.
• Advancing our production of sustainable synthetic fuels and chemicals (PtX) technology
and product offering through in-house research and collaboration with leading companies.
• Procuring 600 MW or renewable energy jointly with Air Liquide.
• Sasol Solar Challenge: A bi-annual initiative promoting STEM education through solar-powered vehicles.
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• Through our human rights awareness campaigns, we remind employees about the company’s commitment
to uphold and respect business and human rights in terms of the Sasol Human Rights Policy.
• Providing a unique employee experience and a compelling EmVP to a diverse workforce in a safe and inclusive workspace.
• In 2022, Sasol was certified a ‘Top Employer’ for the seventh consecutive year in South Africa.
• Engaging and ensuring effective partnerships with all recognised trade unions and works councils in all the countries
within which we operate. 63% of employees in South Africa are represented by trade unions.
• Regularly reviewing and updating our policies and procedures in line with business, legislative requirements
and key conventions of the International Labour Organisation.
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Installed security infrastructure in Zamdela and Vaalpark, Sasolburg to improve community safety.
Invested in community health infrastructure by constructing a clinic in our fenceline community.
Collaborating with German aircraft manufacturer Deutsche Aircraft for the certification of sustainable ‘drop-in’ jet fuels.
Enhancing technological capabilities for producing and using green hydrogen as a feedstock.
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