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SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AGAINST OUR FOCUS AREAS: SAFE AND ENDURING OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Process safety
The 5th HSI Focus Area (Loss of Primary Containment) was included with the aim to reduce the risk of loss of primary
containment that could emanate from errors caused by people, inadequate systems/processes, inadequate equipment integrity
and process changes. It is anchored by 12 process safety fundamentals.
We strive to achieve zero harm in all of our operations through the
application of the PSM Framework, which addresses process hazards
and risks, process knowledge and process safety risk management. We
enable process safety integrity through inherently safe design, asset
management and operational discipline to prevent loss of containment of
hazardous chemicals.
The purpose of the 5th HSI Focus Area is further to strengthen the process safety culture by enabling the operational workforce
to identify, understand and practically manage threats to the integrity of the process safety controls. This is enabled through
implementation of a standardised approach across all Sasol sites, which includes the provision of toolkits that are aimed at
encouraging the correct behaviour with respect to operational risk.
Focus area
Purpose
Progress
Mitigating
process safety
risks
We aim to achieve
process integrity through
inherently safe design,
asset management and
operations discipline
to prevent loss of
containment of hazardous
chemicals that may result
in FERs with the potential
to cause harm to people,
the environment, assets
and reputation.
To enable continuous improvement, our PSM priorities include:
• Reviewing the process safety key undesirable events to
strengthen the first level of assurance of these controls;
• Implementing the revised PSM audit programme to provide
improved assurance on the integrity of the process safety
controls;
• Expediting closure of process safety findings from audits and
independent assessments to enable a robust process safety
programme;
• Performing thorough analyses of the incident root causes
and precursors; and implementing measures to prevent the
recurrence of incidents;
• Reviewing the effectiveness of the implementation of lessons
learnt from process safety incidents across all Sasol sites;
• Implementing and improving the process safety leading
indicators to ensure the identification and addressing of
weaknesses in the preventative controls before actualisation
of incidents; and
• Implementing standardised enablement toolkits for the HSI
programme to enhance the process safety field observations.
Performance
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.
Major and significant FERs and FER-SR
10
30
8
24
6
18
4
12
2
6
0
18
18
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20
Major FERs
Significant FERs
FER-SR target
FER-SR
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Major and signifcant FERs
FER-SR
Reaching our goal of zero
harm means maintaining
reliable, safe and sustainable
operations. We measure the
severity of our FERs through
our PSM Framework.
HSI programme
Our approach