Sasol Sustainability Report 2023 - Book - Page 14
INTRODUCTION
SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AGAINST OUR FOCUS AREAS
SAFE AND ENDURING OPERATIONS
DATA AND ASSURANCE
ANNEXURES
SAFE AND ENDURING OPERATIONS // Occupational health
OUR COMMITMENT //
Sasol follows an integrated risk approach to managing occupational health
and wellbeing, where leading best practices inform our continuous improvement
of occupational health performance towards our goal of Zero Harm.
OUR GROUP
APPROACH
Our occupational health approach, founded on governance framework requirements
for occupational health and wellbeing services, delivered by capable healthcare
professionals, includes:
Management of exposure to physical, chemical, biological and ergonomic factors;
Prevention of occupational diseases and injuries; and
Promotion of health and workability, rehabilitation and return to work as well as
emergency response and curative services.
PERFORMANCE
TARGETED INTERVENTIONS
Our businesses implement their occupational health services according to the following functional areas:
OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE
2023
Statutory reported occupational diseases
OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE
Occupational diseases incident rate
Incidents of work-related noise-induced hearing loss
Preventing and managing occupational and
work-aggravated as well as lifestyle diseases
through medical surveillance programmes,
primary health care, injury-on-duty
management and rehabilitation and
return-to-work programmes.
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 EMPLOYEE WELLBEING
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
2022
51
38
0.064
0.052
17
23
Mining occupational diseases
28
28
Irreversible lung disease
15
8
Increase
Decrease
No change
In FY23, a marginal increase in occupational diseases were reported. Exposure to workplace noise was
the health risk associated with the most occupational diseases reported.
Enabling a holistic approach to health
and wellbeing of our employee and the
employees of service providers.
Communicating and raising awareness on
the health impacts of Sasol operations
within the surrounding communities.
SERVICE PROVIDER HEALTH DELIVERY
MEDICAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE
Following an aligned approach to that of
Sasol for the employees of service providers.
Facilitating a standardised approach to
responding in medical emergencies.
Our hearing conversation programme, following industry best practices, allows for the identification of
early, non reportable, hearing loss due to workplace noise exposure. Relevant investigation to determine
the cause is conducted and mitigating factors, including the inspection and checking of hearing protection,
removal of noise exposure and retraining on noise exposure are implemented. While being aware of the
latency factor between risk exposure and the onset of disease, we are confident that the benefit of
effective health risk exposure management with continuous improvement on engineering, administrative
and personal protective equipment controls will reflect in later reporting periods.
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