Sasol Limited Sustainability Report 2021 - Book - Page 15
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SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AGAINST OUR FOCUS AREAS: SAFE AND ENDURING OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Occupational health and wellbeing
Sasol follows an integrated approach
to managing occupational health and
wellbeing, where international best
practices appropriately inform our
continuous improvement of occupational
health performance towards our goal
of zero harm.
Our approach
Occupational health is strategically supporting the
organisation through:
•A governance framework setting uniform standards for
occupational health and wellbeing services, delivered
by competent and skilled healthcare professionals; and
•Integrated risk-based health management systems
with the emphasis on a health risk exposure reduction.
Our occupational health approach includes:
•Management of exposure to physical, chemical, biological
and ergonomic factors;
•Prevention of occupational diseases and injuries; and
•Promotion of health and work ability, rehabilitation and
return-to-work as well as first aid and curative services.
Performance
In 2021, the number of reportable occupational diseases
decreased. Exposure to workplace noise was the most
commonly reported occupational disease.
Notwithstanding the favourable trend, we remain mindful
of the latency factor between risk exposure and the onset
of disease.
We remain confident that the benefit of continuous
improvement on engineering, administrative and PPE controls
reflect in later reporting periods.
We continue to:
All Sasol businesses implement and align their occupational health services according to Group requirements, consisting of the
following functional areas:
•identify and manage the exposure of workers with nonreportable work-related noise induced loss of hearing;
•closely monitor occupational and biological exposure
for potential and known exposure to identified carcinogens
and teratogens within the petrochemical environment;
•improve our diagnostic screening capabilities in our medical
centres; and
•assess effective measures to eliminate and reduce
occupational health risk exposure in the workplace.
2021
2020
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77
0,049
0,070
22
34
Mining occupational diseases
21
38
Irreversible lung disease
10
31
Statutory reported occupational diseases
Occupational disease incident rate
Incidents of work-related noise induced
hearing loss
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Focus area
Purpose
Occupational
medicine
Preventing and managing occupational and work aggravated illnesses and lifestyle diseases
through medical surveillance programmes, primary health care, injury on duty management,
rehabilitation and return to work programmes.
Occupational
hygiene
Identifying occupational health hazards and advising on the implementation of preventative
controls and work practices to eliminate and/or mitigate exposures in the workplace.
Integration
with wellness
Enabling a holistic approach to health and wellbeing of our employees and the employees of
service providers.
Medical
emergency
response
Facilitating a standard approach for responding to medical emergencies.
Environmental
health
Communicating and raising awareness on the health impacts of Sasol operations within the
surrounding communities.
Service provider
health delivery
Following an aligned approach to that of Sasol for the employees of service providers.
Sasol Sustainability Report 2021