SASOL Integrated Report 2025_Final_28 August 2025 - Flipbook - Page 105
INTRODUCTION
ABOUT SASOL
STRATEGIC OVERVIEW
BUSINESSES
ESG
REMUNERATION REPORT
DATA AND ASSURANCE / ADMINISTRATION
SOCIAL – LABOUR continued
PROCESS SAFETY
Our commitment
Our group approach
Our commitment is to ensure that we maintain reliable, safe,
and sustainable operations.
We apply our process safety management (PSM) system to address process related hazards, knowledge,
safety risk management, safety performance learning through experiences, thereby striving for Zero Harm.
Process safety integrity is enabled through adhering to intent safe design, asset management and operations
discipline as guided by international best practice to maintain reliable and safe operations.
PERFORMANCE
We are dedicated to continuously enhancing
our understanding of risk exposure and risk
management. This commitment is key to
effectively managing process safety-related
risks by our frontline personnel and across
the leadership spine.
Our assurance programme, which consists
of four levels of assurance, has identified
several themes for improvement. These
include enhancements in Process Safety
Information, Management of Change (MOC),
and Compliance to procedures. Additionally,
there were findings pointing to a need to
improve adherence to requirements related
to some aspects of Asset Integrity.
We view these findings as valuable
opportunities for growth. By addressing
the gaps identified through our assurance
processes, we are continually improving the
robustness and sustainability of our risk
controls. This proactive approach ensures
that we maintain high standards of safety
and operational excellence.
Process safety events are classified
as follows:
• Major
• Minor
• Significant
• Less severe
events
• Moderate
• Near misses.
The process safety incidents reported consist of major
and significant incidents.
These indicators help us maintain a high standard of
safety and operational excellence.
Key performance
We have also identified improvement opportunities
regarding our Process Safety Fundamentals aimed
at improving process safety culture and enhancing
operational discipline. The need to improve
understanding and management of controls related to
double isolation, safe making, product transfer,
and completeness of box-up is important in improving
our process safety culture.
Fires, explosions and
release severity rate
(FER-SR)
Process safety incidents
less than or equal to
Targets
2025
2024
5,0
5,5
5,4
17
21
15
None of the incidents resulted in fatalities.
We are committed to continuously monitoring our
process safety lagging indicators. For the year under
review, we have identified areas for improvement and
are taking proactive steps to address them. Although
there has been a slight increase in the number of
significant incidents compared to the previous year,
we are actively working on enhancing our understanding
of risks and improving our risk management and
maintenance activities.
We are excited about the initiatives currently in
progress, which focus on promoting safe work
practices during maintenance, conducting thorough
risk assessments, and refining our maintenance
strategies. These efforts are designed to ensure a safer
and more efficient work environment.
As part of continuous improvement, we have trained
our own employees and service providers on Process
Safety Fundamentals and Permit to Work. We have a
specific PSM training programme for our frontline
personnel to enhance the understanding of process
safety hazards, operating limits, and risk reduction
measures (barrier management model). Our toolbox
talks also include process safety-related topics. In
total, 11 000 employees have been trained, of which
3 300 were trained in FY25.
Additionally, we track unique and specific leading
indicators at the business level for Process Safety. Each
business unit reports on key indicators such as trip
bypasses exceeding time limits, overdue temporary
MOCs and PHA actions, PSCE failure before schedule,
the number of online leak sealing devices, PSCE
schedule adherence, and alarms per operator per hour.
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To enable continuous improvement, our PSM
priorities include:
A Updating of PHA risk profiles and monitoring
of critical controls.
A Reviewing the management of substances
that are immediately dangerous to life or
health.
A Digitalisation of the Engineering MOC across
all Sasol plants in Southern Africa.
A Implementation of the MOC for personnel
changes (specifically for personnel with line
management responsibility).
A Full adoption of the Enablon Incident
Management System to capture, classify,
and investigate Process Safety incidents,
and manage associated action items
for International Chemicals.
A Review the nine process safety training
modules and tools already developed and
implemented in Chemicals South Africa for
potential adoption and training all frontline
operations and maintenance personnel in
International Chemicals.
A Streamline our Incident Investigation
Procedure to focus on prevention of
high-severity and high-potential process
safety incidents.
A Developing PSM Improvement Plans and
incorporating gaps identified by external
independent assessors.
