Sasol Sustainability Report 2023 - Book - Page 25
INTRODUCTION
SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AGAINST OUR FOCUS AREAS
SAFE AND ENDURING OPERATIONS
DATA AND ASSURANCE
ANNEXURES
SAFE AND ENDURING OPERATIONS // Product stewardship
OUR COMMITMENT //
To ensure safe chemicals management we work diligently to continuously
improve the SHE impacts of our products, as well as manage security
throughout the product life cycle, in partnership with suppliers, customers
and other stakeholders.
OUR GROUP
APPROACH
Through our well-established product stewardship approach,
we endeavor to ensure safe chemicals management throughout
a product’s life cycle while ensuring the chemistry contributes
to society and benefits the environment. This is addressed by:
Building trust in the Sasol brand by fulfilling our commitment to product stewardship along the
value chain, which also limits our product risk and liability;
Having a team of global technical experts with a sound understanding of the hazards, risks and
regulatory requirements driving continuous improvements to prevent product-related incidents
and limit health and environmental exposure; and
Conscientiously and collaboratively engaging with our partners and stakeholders along the value
chain, promoting the safe and responsible storage, use, conversion and end-of-life management
of our products.
Successful road transport emergency drill simulation.
Winner of the 2022 Chemicals Allied Industry
Association (CAIA) Responsible Care® Water Award.
PERFORMANCE
DESIGNING SAFE PRODUCTS
METHANOL USE IN NON-INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
SASOL’S INTERNATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY AND CARBON CERTIFICATION (ISCC)
PLUS CERTIFICATIONS
To ensure that Sasol offers the market a safe and competitive product
portfolio for today and the future, our ongoing portfolio review process is
fundamental. Regulatory scanning, screening of peer reviewed scientific
research on chemical safety and product development work occur on a
continuous basis to ensure that any anticipated changes in legal
requirements that impact our products are known and addressed in
advance of formal regulatory changes being adopted. Sasol has a few
substances listed on the European Union9s Registration, Evaluation,
Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals regulation (REACH) substances
of very high concern (candidate list). Sasol has stopped the production of
three products over the last few years, since they had been listed on the
authorisation list. Our value chain is free of any materials relating to the
multilateral environmental agreements on chemicals under the Montreal
Protocol or the Stockholm Convention. With regards to our compliance
with the Basel Convention, we export spent catalysts containing precious
metals for the purposes of recovery of these metals to be used in the
manufacture of fresh catalysts. Our efforts reduce the need for mining
and contribute to a circular economy. One Sasol product is certified under
the voluntary International Cyanide Management Code.
Sasol continues to support CAIA in stakeholder
education and awareness initiatives by compiling
documents which seek to share important and
targeted information on key health and safety
aspects of methanol, e.g. uses, hazards and risks,
personal protective equipment and emergency
preparedness.
The ISCC PLUS certification promotes environmentally, socially and
economically sustainable production. Three of our Eurasian sites are ISCC
PLUS certified to use bio-based and circular feedstocks on a mass balance
basis to replace fossil-based feedstocks.
FY23 OUTCOMES
LOW DIOXANE ETHERSULFATE
Runner up for 2022 Responsible Care®
Initiative of the year
Sasol has succeeded in producing a lower
dioxane ethersulfate. We responded to global
industry demand for low-dioxane versions, as
legislation around the concentration of 1,4-dioxane
in personal care and home care products gets more
stringent worldwide. True to the Purpose of
8Innovating for a better world9.
Supporting Inkwazi Isu to Upgrade
Garden Sites 3 Sasol directly funded
R3,6 million to the first two sites and
handed over to the local municipality
on World Clean Up Day in September
2022. In addition Sasol has assisted in
securing support of $1,5 million from the
Alliance to End Plastic Waste to upgrade
an additional 10 municipal garden sites
into buy back centres ( SR
for more
information, refer to page 26).
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Sasol reaffirms commitment to
Responsible Care® by signing both
the International Council of Chemical
Associations (ICCA) Responsible Care®
Global Charter and the CAIA declaration.
Winner of the 2022 CAIA Responsible
Care® Water Award
(SEO) support to Metsimaholo Local
Municipality with a focus on Water,
Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in
surrounding communities.
