SASOL Integrated Report 2025_Final_28 August 2025 - Flipbook - Page 104
INTRODUCTION
ABOUT SASOL
STRATEGIC OVERVIEW
BUSINESSES
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REMUNERATION REPORT
DATA AND ASSURANCE / ADMINISTRATION
SOCIAL – LABOUR continued
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Our commitment
We are committed to ensuring that our employees and service
providers are healthy and providing a safe and healthy environment
to our communities.
Our group approach
We apply an integrated risk-based approach to occupational health and wellbeing, guided by best practices
to drive continuous improvement toward Zero Harm.
Our occupational health governance framework includes:
z Management of exposure to physical, chemical, biological and ergonomic factors;
z Prevention of occupational diseases and injuries; and
z Promotion of health and workability, rehabilitation and return-to-work as well as emergency response
and curative services.
TARGETED INTERVENTIONS
We implement occupational health services according to the following
functional areas:
Occupational medicine
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.
Occupational hygiene
Identifying occupational health hazards and advising on the implementation
of preventative controls and work practices to eliminate or mitigate
exposures in the workplace.
Integration with employee wellbeing
The focus of occupational health is to:
Maintain and promote workers’ health and
working capacity;
Improve the working environment and work
conditions to become conducive to safety and
health; and
Develop organisations and working cultures
which support health and safety at work,
promoting a positive social climate.
Enabling a holistic approach to the health and well-being of our employees
and the employees of service providers.
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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PERFORMANCE
Our indicators include work related health incidents or diseases.
Key performance indicator
2025
2024
Irreversible occupational diseases
Occupational disease incident rate
Noise-induced hearing loss
Mining occupational diseases
Irreversible lung disease
Reversible occupational diseases
(TB, heart-related, work-related
upper limb disorder, other)
45
0,060
17
36
18
37
0,046
9
31
13
36
47
An increase in irreversible occupational diseases were reported in FY25.
Exposure to excessive noise in the workplace resulted in an increase in
noise induced hearing loss cases. The increase in irreversible lung diseases
was attributed to dust exposure in our Mining environment.
Despite the unanticipated upward trend in reported occupational diseases
for FY25, also bearing in mind the latency between risk exposure and the
onset of disease, we are still confident that the benefit of effective health
risk exposure practices 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 work controls, including the inspection and
checking of hearing protection, removal of noise exposure and retraining
on noise exposure, are implemented.
