Sasol Sustainability Report 2023 - Book - Page 15
INTRODUCTION
SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AGAINST OUR FOCUS AREAS
SAFE AND ENDURING OPERATIONS
DATA AND ASSURANCE
ANNEXURES
SAFE AND ENDURING OPERATIONS // Process safety
OUR COMMITMENT //
Our commitment is to ensure that we maintain
reliable, safe and sustainable operations.
OUR GROUP APPROACH
Through the application of the process safety management (PSM) system, we address process hazards, process knowledge, process
safety risk management, process safety performance and learning through experiences, thereby striving for Zero Harm. Process
safety integrity is enabled through adhering to inherent safe design, asset management and operations discipline as guided by
international best practice to maintain reliable and safe operations.
Monitoring and reporting of leading indicators for process safety.
Decreased fire, explosion and release rate against target.
PERFORMANCE
GROUP
PERFORMANCE
TARGETS
In FY22, Sasol had a good process safety performance, and in FY23 there was a slight increase
in numbers which is an indication of stabilisation that is required for our processes. Our safety
incidents consists of major and significant incidents. We had 15 process safety incidents,
below the target of 18.
We are continuing to implement and monitor the fifth high severity incidents (HSI) focus area
(loss of primary containment) across the operations. All process safety fundamentals have
been rolled out and we are monitoring the usage of assurance checklists associated with the
process safety fundamentals.
To enable continuous improvement, our PSM priorities include:
Fires, explosions
and releases severity
rate (FER-SR)*
4,5
(2022: 3,8)
6,2
" Improving the quality of process safety risk studies and ensuring effective closure of
actions;
" Revising the permit to work system to improve controls related to maintenance activities;
" Providing PSM training for frontline personnel;
" Focusing on incident recall to ensure that the learnings have been effectively implemented;
" Improving the quality of the critical control performance criteria;
" Continuing to focus on the implementation of the Management of Change process to
mitigate SHE risks related to personnel changes;
Process safety
incidents less
than or equal to
15
(2022: 13)
" Auditing the status of PSM implementation to identify the areas of improvement;
" Performing thorough analyses of the incident root causes and precursors, implementing
measures to prevent the recurrence of incidents; and
18
Note: Numbers in brackets refer to the previous year
* Assured by Deloitte & Touche/Tholisiwe 3
SR
" Monitoring process safety leading and lagging indicators to identify and address
weaknesses in the controls.
refer to page 63
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