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INTRODUCTION
ABOUT SASOL
STRATEGIC OVERVIEW
BUSINESSES
ESG
REMUNERATION REPORT
DATA AND ASSURANCE / ADMINISTRATION
SOCIAL – LABOUR continued
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
OUR COMMITMENT
We are committed to ensuring that
our employees, service providers are healthy
and provide safe environmental health
to our communities.
OUR GROUP APPROACH
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 journey of Zero Harm.
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.
TARGETED INTERVENTIONS
PERFORMANCE
We implement occupational services according to the following
functional areas:
Our indicators include work related/occupational related health
incidents or diseases.
Occupational medicine
Key performance indicator
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.
Irreversible occupational diseases
37
51
Occupational disease incident rate
0,046
0,064
9
17
Occupational hygiene
Mining occupational diseases
31
28
Irreversible lung disease
13
15
Reversible occupational diseases
(TB, heart related, work related upper limb
disorder, other)
47
41
Noise-induced hearing loss
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
Enabling a holistic approach to health and wellbeing of our
employee and the employees of service providers.
2024
2023
In FY24, a reduction in occupational diseases was reported. Exposure
to workplace noise and dust were the health risks associated with the
most occupational diseases reported. 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.
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.
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.
Medical emergency response
Facilitating a standardised approach to responding
in medical emergencies.
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