Sasol Limited Sustainability Report 2021 - Book - Page 11
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SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AGAINST OUR FOCUS AREAS: SAFE AND ENDURING OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Our approach
e strive to achieve zero harm in all of our operations
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through an improved process and the application
of our safety risk management procedures. We
implement rigorous critical control management and
communicate lessons learnt from HSI investigations for
implementation in the businesses.
Targets
Pursuing zero harm is one of our material
matters and a Group top priority. We aim
to make this possible through committed
leadership, engaged people, teamwork and
dedicated focus.
Zero fatalities
Performance
Occupational safety and HSI programme
Two fatalities at
Energy: one at Natref
before financial
year-end the other at
Mining after financial
year-end compared to
six fatalities in 2020.
RCR of 0,26
The RCR is 0,26 for
2021 compared to
0,27 for 2020.
LWDCR of 0,14
The LWDCR is 0,14
for 2021 compared
to 0,11 for 2020.
HSI severity rate
(HSI-SR) of 14
The HSI-SR* is 9,79
for 2021 compared
to 17,1 for 2020.
* Assured by Deloitte and Tholisiwe
refer to page 60
Progress
Energy
Chemicals
We use the following themes to support our HSI
programme and as a backdrop to conversations our
leadership has with our workforce:
• The desired safety culture starts with us as leaders and
requires a strong leadership spine;
• A climate where our people feel cared for;
• A work environment where our employees and teams
understand the risk and the potential severity of
undesirable outcomes;
• Individuals and teams that stay in the moment and
support each other to keep to the rules; and
• A culture where employees feel free to report and give
feedback and where leaders recognise employees for
their anticipation and openness.
To ensure a sustainable improvement in these themes, our
leadership teams remain committed to focus on SHE risk
management, incident management and SHE assurance:
• Continuing with our HSI programme with a specific
focus on pre-task risk assessments, the adherence
to life saving rules and critical controls, and diligently
adhering to the management of change protocols and
requirements;
Our multipronged approach for the care and safety
of all our people includes:
• Strong visible felt leadership, commitment,
accountability and example setting;
• HSI elimination programme;
• Risk management;
• Combined assurance management programmes; and
• Incident management and shared learnings.
There were zero fatalities and life-altering injuries in the
year, largely attributable to work by the fatality and highseverity injuries elimination task force.
With varying transmission rates, lockdown levels and
regulations; the COVID-19 impact was exceptionally well
managed with a worldwide recovery rate of 99% and
zero COVID-19 related deaths.
Through a climate of care and empathy where employee
wellbeing is paramount, our leadership was prominently
evident during our transition processes.
• Independent review of the incident management
process and the utilisation of an external investigation
chairperson and subject matter experts for an actual HSI;
• Consideration of advanced technologies and engineering
solutions to address our reliance on safe-making
practices and human behaviour as critical controls;
• Re-emphasising the importance of the first level of
assurance process and the importance of leaders
confirming that the verification system in the field
operates as designed; and
• Verifying the effective embedding of learnings from
previous incidents.
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Embedding the HSI programme remained a priority,
despite most of our Corporate Centre employees working
from home. We focused on the following themes:
• Leadership engaging and committing to encourage
core safety behaviours;
• Humanising safety through showing care for ourselves,
others and our service providers;
• Creating awareness of the risks in our areas of
accountability and the processes that are in place to
control these risks; and
• Keeping individuals and teams connected, in the
moment and supporting each other in a work from
home environment.
Leadership teams are committed to continuing with
our HSI programme by enabling our workforce to make
informed decisions and to prevent incidents through
effective risk management practices and adherence to life
saving rules.