Sasol Integrated Report 2024 - Book - Page 103
INTRODUCTION
ABOUT SASOL
STRATEGIC OVERVIEW
BUSINESSES
ESG
REMUNERATION REPORT
DATA AND ASSURANCE / ADMINISTRATION
SOCIAL – LABOUR continued
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HSI PROGRAMME
INITIATIVES AND PERFORMANCE
FY24 SAFETY TRAINING
Safety is a Group top priority and risk, which is managed by
meeting the requirements in our enterprise risk management
(ERM) framework, embedding our HSI Programme and the One
Sasol SHE Excellence approach.
The focus remains to prevent HSI and incidents and manage
Refer to the Risk Management
our top priorities and Group risk. (
pages 28 – 36).
At Sasol we have two values underpinning our Humanising safety
efforts “Be Safe” and “Be Caring” which means we take care of our
employees and service providers, we truly understand causes of
incidents and accidents, we have high standards and care when it
comes to rigour in our business because we want to send people
home safely every day.
Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
Targets
Group
performance
Zero
5
90
59
0,26
0,25
0,11
0,12
Fatalities
Hospitalisations*
Recordable Case Rate (RCR)
Lost Work Day Case Rate (LWDCR)
*
New key performance indicator – target is set for FY25.
Tragically, we had five fatalities for FY24, of which two occurred
at Secunda Operations (SO) and three at our mining operations.
Unfortunately in August, of the new financial year (FY25), we had
one fatality at SO. The nature of incidents varies, each high-severity
incident, fatality or potential high-severity incident is investigated
thoroughly to understand the direct and root causes. Incident
investigations are facilitated by independent chairpersons, and we
leave no stone unturned to understand the organisation, workplace
and individual factors that can contribute to these incident.
Corrective actions are implemented, tracked and verified through
assurance, ranging from climate and culture programmes,
engineering solutions and behaviour-based corrections.
Additionally, line managers verify the effectiveness of critical
controls in their respective operations and systemic issues or
themes identified through the verification processes are
analysed and translated into action plans with clear deliverables
and milestones.
Employees – face to face training
Our RCR has decreased from 0,27 to 0,25 due to relentless focus
on high-severity incidents and high-risk activities with the
leader-led necessary assurance practices.
Employees – SHE Online courses
Our LWDCR improved to 0,12 and is marginally above the target
of 0,11 reflecting the positive impact of our HSI Programme and
improving the hierarchy of controls of high-risk activities. FY24
had zero Category 2 LWDCs.
Service providers – face to face training
The number of hospitalisations decreased from 71 to 59 on the
efforts of understanding HSIs and improving the hierarchy of
controls ie, removal of the individual from the line of fire and
utilising technology to improve safety.
4 714
19 170
60 340
FY24 OUTCOMES
Training
Sasol has a dedicated SHE Academy that provides training for
all employees and service providers within South Africa and
Mozambique, both in person and online. A range of SHE courses,
and awareness training are related to the Company policies and
procedures as well as standards. Some of the areas of consideration
include but are not exclusive to SHE Legal compliance, Life Saving
Rules (LSRs), Security, Environment, Process Safety Management,
Workplace Safety, Emergency Management, Occupational Health
and Hygiene, Product Stewardship. Every course has a specific
target group based on Role and/or Business Risk. SHE training is
mandatory before gaining access to Sasol facilities.
With Zero Harm a Group top priority, hazard identification training
was rolled out in December 2023 to frontline operational service
providers. This was as a result of injury investigations and is
currently being applied at our Secunda and Sasolburg sites.
Hazard identification training is a pre-requisite to permit to work
training and standby training based on roles and business risk.
The leadership is increasing their presence in the field to be more
visible, to confirm that systems are working as designed, and to
engage and support their teams where barriers to safe working
are experienced.
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Extensive safety training
Hazard identification training was rolled out
in December 2023
FY25 FOCUS
Safe, efficient and reliable operations is one
of the Group top priorities for FY25.
Prioritising safety: We are relentless in driving
rigorous safety measures to ensure Zero Harm.
Operational excellence: To assure safety
in operational performance.
