Sasol acknowledges that product stewardship is a shared responsibility of all parties involved in a product’s life cycle. Active engagement and collaboration with our stakeholders, including suppliers and customers, on safe hazardous product management is a key focus.
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Who We Are
Overview
Sasol is a global chemicals and energy company. We harness our knowledge and expertise to integrate sophisticated technologies and processes into world-scale operating facilities. We safely and sustainably source, produce and market a range of high-quality products, creating value for stakeholders.
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Our Businesses
Overview
Through proprietary technologies and processes the main products Sasol produces are fuel components, chemical components and co-products. From these main products and further value-adding processes we deliver diesel, petrol (gasoline), naphtha, kerosene (jet fuel), liquid petroleum gas (LPG), olefins, alcohols, polymers, solvents, surfactants, co-monomers, ammonia, methanol, crude tar acids, sulphur, illuminating paraffin, bitumen and fuel oil. Even further processing produces numerous additional products.
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ESG
Overview
Advancing chemical and energy solutions that contribute to a thriving planet, society and enterprise.
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Investor Centre
Overview
Sasol's investors consist of both equity investors (those invested in the Sasol ordinary shares or the ADRs) and lenders/debt investors (banks and institutional investors lending to Sasol or investing in its issues of debt instruments such as local bonds, offshore bonds, commercial paper issues, project finance, loans and other credit facilities and convertible instruments).
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Suppliers
Overview
Supply Chain is the custodian of all external spend for the Sasol Group. It is responsible for managing supply and demand so as to ensure cost-efficiency and maximise return on spend, while at the same time ensuring effective logistics of a range of deliverables.
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Careers
Overview
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Media Centre
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Product Stewardship
Our Group Approach
Through our well-established product stewardship approach, we aim to ensure safe chemicals management throughout a product’s lifecycle, while also ensuring that the chemistry contributes to society and benefits the environment. This is addressed by:
- Establishing trust in the Sasol brand
We do so by consistently fulfilling our commitment to product stewardship across the entire value chain.This not only mitigates product risk but also minimises any liability; - Maintaining a team of global technical experts
Our team possesses a deep understanding of product hazards, risks and regulatory requirements. They actively drive continuous improvement to prevent product-related incidents and minimise health and environmental exposure; and - Engaging with partners and stakeholders
We conscientiously collaborate with our partners and stakeholders along the value chain, promoting safe and responsible practices related to storage, use, conversion and end-of- life management of our products.
Our Commitment
We are committed to ensuring safe chemicals management through continuously mitigating and improving the Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) impacts of our products. This is done while actively managing security across. The product lifecycle, in a collaborative partnership with suppliers, customers and other stakeholders.
Broad stakeholder Collaboration
Communication on product hazards
Potential hazards of all Sasol’s products are communicated to stakeholders via appropriately detailed hazard communication documents, including Safety Data Sheets aligned with the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling, Regulatory Information Sheets, engagements and training as necessary.
Risk-based approach to chemicals management
Within Sasol, various governance measures and practices are in place to mitigate potential risks across the life cycle of our products, with risk assessments performed for all products as informed by different national and regional requirements. Critical to the risk assessment process is input on the inherent substance hazard potential provided through the hazardous product classification applying the Global Harmonized System with applicable jurisdictional chemical control regulatory requirements.
Product development towards less hazardous formulations
When developing new products for existing or new applications, Sasol aims to minimise the hazard potential as far as reasonably possible while maintaining the desired function of the product. In most instances the hazard potential correlates directly with the intended physico-chemical properties of the products, however some may warrant minor modifications to reduce the hazard while maintaining the desired substance properties that make them useable and safer in customers’ applications
Portfolio optimisation to safer, sustainable alternatives
Sasol aims to meet the evolving needs of customers by providing products fit-for-safe and sustainable use. Although many of Sasol’s products are not classified as hazardous, or classified only for acute potential health effects e.g. irritation, we continuously review known applications of all our products to improve its SHE impact with the objective of preventing unacceptable risks to life and environment. We remain committed to innovate for safe and sustainable alternatives.
Safe transport of products
Sasol is committed to safe and responsible distribution of our products and to proactively mitigate any potential ‘in transit’ incidents. Compliance with applicable regulatory requirements regarding transporting, handling and storage of our products, as well as prevention of incidents and responsible management of incidents, remains a minimum imperative.
Product Life Cycle Stages
Our commitment to Product Stewardship is embedded throughout the value chain.
Accolades
Sasol won two awards at the Chemical and Allied Industries Association (CAIA) Responsible Care® 2024 awards ceremony
Responsible Care® is the global industry’s voluntary initiative to drive continuous improvement in safe chemicals management and achieve excellence in environmental, health, safety and security performance. CAIA, the local custodian of Responsible Care® in South Africa, is responsible for setting and implementing the local principles which are based on the global commitment as per the International Council of Chemical Associations.
Sasol’s unwavering commitment to Responsible Care® principles has been recognized with two prestigious CAIA awards. The company received the Responsible Care® Sustained High Performance Award – Category B, which honours chemical industry leaders demonstrating consistent adherence to Responsible Care® principles through annual KPI evaluations. Additionally, Sasol was awarded the Responsible Care® Initiative of the Year Award – Category A for its outstanding project in removing toluene from Turposol 17, significantly enhancing health, safety, and environmental performance. These accolades, highlighting the dedication and hard work of Team Sasol in setting industry benchmarks and reflecting the collective efforts of their diverse teams to deliver outstanding results consistently.
Sasol awarded three EcoVadis medals
FY25 was another successful year, with four Sasol entities receiving EcoVadis medals – demonstrating Sasol’s strong commitment to sustainability. EcoVadis is one of the largest global sustainability ratings agencies, providing a comprehensive and holistic view of a company’s sustainability performance. Its scoring methodology is constantly refined to reflect evolving sustainability standards, regulatory expectations, and industry best practices. Therefore, achieving high recognition levels has become increasingly challenging. Sasol Italy and Sasol Germany are achieving gold and silver medals.
2nd place for Sasol Germany in the VCI Nord’s Responsible Care Initiative on the topic of “safe and healthy working environment”
Sasol Germany GmbH, with locations in Hamburg, Brunsbüttel and Marl, has achieved 2nd place in the Responsible Care Initiative organised by the Verband der Chemischen Industrie Landesverband Nord e. V. (VCI Nord). The competition focused on the topic “Our commitment to a safe and healthy working environment”.
Sasol Germany participated with its “Safety and Health Days” initiative, organized at its Hamburg, Brunsbüttel and Marl locations. The “Safety and Health Days” address a wide variety of aspects from the areas of occupational safety, health protection, well-being and health promotion.
Sasol Responsible Care ® Global Charter 2025
Sasol South Africa Limited Responsible Care ®CAIA Declaration 2025
Sasol South Africa Limited Responsible Care ® Management Representative Certificate 2025
Sasol Group's commitment to safe management of Hazardous products 2023