Safety is a Group top priority at Sasol: We are committed to humanising safety and strive for Zero Harm.

Our approach centres on the following:

• Understanding our risk landscape and managing our activities in a way that eliminates incidents, minimises risk and promotes excellence in the performance of our operations; and
• Leveraging our risk-based approach to managing our top Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) risks (Key Undesirable Events) while strengthening our combined SHE assurance processes.

Our safety approach is built on a foundation of leadership and competency and is strengthened by clear policies and procedures relating to safety risk management, leading practice performance standards, incident investigation and behavioural science. Our values and people underpin our SHE policy promise, sustaining a positive culture in which SHE is embedded.

Awareness creation of risks in the areas of accountability continue with processes in place to mitigate these risks. We are in the process of simplifying and standardising its critical SHE Risk Bowties and performance criteria which will be communicated to all impacted by this process.

The critical capabilities of the ERM/SHE management system will include Enterprise Risk Management, SHE risk management, SHE incident management, SHE combined Assurance, Service provider Safety Management, and Exposure Based Safety. The key to the implementation of the system is to have a fit-for-purpose system on a single platform with proposer inputs involving all stakeholders.

At Sasol we have two values underpinning our Humanisng safety efforts” “Be Safe” and “Be Caring”

Be Safe.

• We place the safety of people first.
• Safety is at the core of our operations and day-to-day business. It is our deepest desire that all our colleagues return safely to their friends and family each day. This links strongly to our next value.

Be Caring.

• We care deeply for our people, planet, communities. A culture of caring encompasses many things: leaders caring about employees, employees caring for each other, for customers, for fenceline communities, and for each other’s families. A culture of caring impacts bottom line in that it impacts employee focus, empowerment and hence engagement. Without caring, we cannot adequately ensure the safety of our colleagues or decarbonise our planet. We are all on a journey together - it matters and we care.

It means we take care of our employees and service providers, we truly understand causes of incident and accidents, we have high standards and care when it comes to rigor in our business based on the fact that we want to send people home safely every single day.  Safety is leaders led not from a basis of compliance but on a basis of commitment.