Sasol Limited Sustainability Report 2021 - Book - Page 10
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SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AGAINST OUR FOCUS AREAS
PEOPLE
Safe and enduring operations
Performance
In this section:
•Eliminating fatalities and high severity injuries;
•Implementing our HSI programme;
•SHE risk management, incident management and
assurance;
•Maintaining a stable labour environment, building
leadership capacity and an enabling organisational
culture and diversity;
•Integrating occupational health and wellbeing;
FATALITIES,
RCR, LOST
WORKDAY
CASES
(LWDCs)
•Upholding the human rights of all people aligned
with Human Rights Policy;
•Promoting high ethical standards and combating
corruption throughout our sphere of influence by
applying our Code of Conduct;
•Maintaining safe, reliable, and enduring operations and
having programmes to prevent major and significant
process safety incidents through our Process Safety
Management (PSM) Framework;
•Limiting the SHE impacts of our products; and
•Maintaining reliable and safe operations through our
Operations Management System (OMS) to minimise
operational interruptions and create sustainable value.
MAJOR AND
SIGNIFICANT
FERs AND FER
SEVERITY RATE
(FER-SR)
• We regrettably experienced two fatalities in the Group,
one before financial year-end and the other after,
however there is a decrease in fatalities year-on-year.
We completed the related incident investigations
to determine the root causes.
• Although our RCR improved from 0,27 to 0,26, our
LWDCs associated with the recordable injuries increased.
• Despite an increase in our lost work day case rate
(LWDCR) from 0,11 to 0,14, we observed a reduction
in the severity of the hospitalised injuries sustained.
The FER-SR of all our process safety incidents has
been within the set target over the observed period.
The FER-SR for 2021 was 4,7 against a target of 6,2.
There were 20 process safety incidents in 2021 against
a target of less than or equal to 19 incidents.
SKILLS
DEVELOPMENT
• leadership-led safety culture;
• On average, 80% of learnerships are permanently
appointed within Sasol operations upon completion
of their training. Unemployed youth from our fenceline
communities comprise 98% of beneficiaries of our
bursary, learnership and internship programmes.
• F
emale representation in our bursary and artisan
learnership pools is at 51% and 33% respectively.
•caring for our people;
•eliminating HSIs;
RCR, fatalities and LWDCs
0.34
140
0.32
120
0.30
100
0.28
80
0.26
60
0.24
40
0.22
0.20
20
18
Fatalities
19
LWDCs
20
21
0
RCR
Major and significant FERs and FER-SR
10
30
8
24
6
18
4
12
2
6
0
• T
o develop and sustain a pipeline of future talent,
we continued to invest significantly in critical skills
and capability development. In 2021, globally we
invested R1,2 billion in skills development, which includes
our employee training and development, bursaries,
graduate development and learnership as well as our
apprenticeship and internship programmes.
What we are doing
We continue to review and improve the effectiveness of our
HSI programme. While we acknowledge that our operations
were interrupted amid the COVID-19 pandemic and applicable
restrictions, we experienced two tragic fatalities one before
financial year-end and the other after. We are focusing on the
following themes across the businesses:
TREND ANALYSIS
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19
20
Major FERs
Significant FERs
FER-SR target
FER-SR
21
0
Total investment in skills development
Employee training and development
R743,0 million
TOTAL
R1,2
BILLION
Bursaries
R83,2 million
Graduate development programme
R91,8 million
Learnerships
R231,6 million
Employee study aid
R18,6 million
Technicians and inspectors in training
R13,2 million
The South African YES programme
R0,8 million
•encouraging individuals and teams to stay in the moment
and support each other to keep to the rules; and
• Focusing extensively on change leadership and employee wellbeing to support employees through
the workforce transition process.
•Institutionalising lessons learnt from previous incidents.
• Our employees and service providers are regularly screened for lifestyle diseases including hypertension,
cholesterol and diabetes.
WELLBEING AND
OCCUPATIONAL • The number of reportable occupational diseases decreased with the exposure to workplace noise
remaining the most commonly reported occupational disease.
DISEASES
OPERATIONS
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Sasol Sustainability Report 2021
Major and signifcant FERs
• Occupational safety and HSI programme
• Human capital: Labour management
• Occupational health and wellbeing
• Human rights
• Ethics
• Process safety
• Enduring operations
• Product stewardship
• Sustainable use of plastics
KPI
Zero harm remains our top priority. We aim to achieve
this by:
Recordable fatalities and injuries
Safe, reliable and enduring operations are
critical to value creation, supporting our
strategy. We engage in transformational
dialogue on SHE performance and focus
on culture, leadership and humanising
safety within Sasol. We strive to reduce
risks and minimise the potential impact
of any incidents.
Recordable Case Rate
Our approach
Importance to Sasol
FER-SR
2.1
2
• Operational stability is gradually normalising at our South African Energy operations following the
COVID-19 response plan, and demonstrated dramatic improvement during 2021. Similarly, our international
operations have also stabilised and shown improvement.