Sasol Limited Sustainability Report 2021 - Book - Page 17
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SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AGAINST OUR FOCUS AREAS: SAFE AND ENDURING OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Human rights
Respect for human rights and dignity is critical for our business. We uphold human rights
and ensure integration into our business practices.
Focus areas
Following the approval of the Business and Human Rights Framework in 2020, and Sasol's restructuring, we are reviewing the Group’s risk
profile. This includes assessing the business areas where human rights impacts may be prevalent.
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The Sasol Enterprise Risk Management Framework and Risk
Management Approach is being applied to foster a systematic and
standardised way to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for
adverse impacts on human rights. This methodology will support
how human rights impacts will be addressed and reported.
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The Risk Management Approach considers
relevant risks at Group and business levels
which would potentially cover and imply human
rights impacts.
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The three-phased Business and Human Rights
programme was presented at the SSEC, noting
that due diligence processes are being improved.
Our approach
•Our commitment to uphold the human rights of
all people is captured in our Code of Conduct and
Human Rights Policy, read with our Supplier Code
of Conduct, the Sasol Security Policy and various
other policies and practices related to labour and
employment.
•We respect, uphold and protect human rights, and
conduct business based on fair, lawful, efficient and
transparent practices. Our approach is premised on
compliance with applicable legal requirements in all
the jurisdictions in which we conduct our business.
Our compliance programme is a key enabler in
this regard.
•Our Executive Director and Executive Vice President:
Strategy, Sustainability and Integrated Services
is responsible for business and human rights in
Sasol. The Human Rights Centre of Excellence is
now headed by the Vice President: Securities and
Governance Laws, following the restructuring
of Sasol. The responsibility to implement and
apply actions to advance human rights in
the business also resides with the leadership
of the business clusters.
•We have implemented a three-phased Business
and Human Rights programme and have concluded
phase one which included identifying the relevant
business and human rights risks. During phase two,
a gap analysis will be conducted which entails a risk
review to ensure that risks identified in phase one
are still valid and complete. The following key steps
form part of the review process:
• Engaging the Businesses and Corporate Centre
Functions to solicit updated risk profiles and
inputs for consideration;
• Conducting interviews with relevant
stakeholders in business to assess prevalence
of the potential Human Rights risk exposures
within our operations and the level of
awareness with respect to the need to protect
and act against Human Rights infringements
where they are found to exist; and
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• Ensure that the risk and control owners where
the risk exists have been identified and made
aware of their accountabilities in ensuring that
the risk is adequately mitigated.
•During Phase 3, we will update risk profiles
across the organisation and roll-out a
standardised business and human rights risk
management approach. The objective of this
phase of the risk review process will be to
share results of the work completed as well as
complete alignment with work done in both
phases 1 and 2. The review process in this phase
will entail the following key steps:
• Ensuring that risk profiles in business are
adequately updated / aligned i.e. the potential
business and human rights risk exposure is
made visible in the existing risk profiles and that
there is demonstrable evidence of how Sasol
deals with business and human rights risks; and
• Rolling-out and embedding a robust
standardised business and human rights risk
management approach across the organisation.
This will fulfill the requirement that businesses
should meet the responsibility of respecting
business and human rights by demonstrating
that they have a risk management process
to deal with any business and human rights
infringement/s as well as providing remediation
processes for situations where these rights
are infringed.
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The Sasol Ethics line is the primary
grievance mechanism for use by
employees, service providers and fenceline
communities to report potential human
rights infringements. Any such complaints
are addressed via established processes.
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Our top priority is to ensure the safety,
health and wellbeing of employees. Our
work- from-home policy remains in place for
all employees who can work remotely, and
we are monitoring the health of those who
are required on site. We continue to remind
employees of the need to wear masks,
maintain social distancing, and regularly
wash or sanitise their hands to protect
themselves, colleagues and families during
the pandemic.
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We also implement various other social initiatives
in education, business development and support,
and healthcare in Mozambique, Qatar, China,
Europe and the United States. All of these underpin
our commitment to have positive influence in the
jurisdictions in which we operate.
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The updated risk profiles are
expected to be implemented in the
new financial year.
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Through our human rights awareness
campaigns, we remind employees
about the company’s commitment to
uphold and respect human rights and
our Human Rights Policy. Through our
extensive stakeholder engagement
processes, we are well placed to receive
concerns from fenceline communities,
and to assess whether such concerns
have human rights implications.
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We continue to assist employees
and fenceline communities. As an
example, we partnered with an
incubatee from the Business Incubation
Programme to deliver thousands of
litres of hand sanitiser to healthcare
facilities and other areas in need in
South Africa. We stepped up this
initiative during the second wave of
the pandemic, with more partners to
provide sanitisers in Kinross, Secunda,
Zamdela and Sasolburg. Additional
deliveries continue to be made to taxi
associations, government departments,
community partners and schools in
Secunda and Sasolburg.