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sustainable development
ensuring a sustainable environment
“Despite our cost-cutting measures, we are determined not to
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with meaningful opportunities for self-development and seeks to promote
compromise the safety of our workforce, the environmental performance equality. It is also a society that recognises the interdependency between
of our operations, the integrity of our equipment, the rigour of our economic development, social justice and environmental protection.
governance and legal compliance of our strategic growth projects.”
A more detailed review of our sustainability performance is provided
Pat Davies, Sasol chief executive.
in our separate sustainable development report, available online at
Businesses flourish best in a healthy and functioning society. It is thus www.sasol.com. The separate report includes a specific focus on some
in our interest to ensure that we are contributing effectively to the of our most material sustainability concerns, including most notably
development of such a society. A healthy society is one that respects climate change, safety, skills development, black economic
the rights of its individual members to express their views, provides them empowerment and water.
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sustainable development
2009 highlights, disappointments and challenges
Highlights
• Investing R386 million in employees’ training • Finalising Sasol Inzalo, our economic broad-based black
and development. economic empowerment transaction.
• Approved capital expenditure of R100 million on • Tripling the number of broad-based suppliers that the
energy-efficiency projects, which should result in Siyakha Trust has supported and raising the number
reductions of about 760 000 tons of greenhouse of jobs created through our business incubator, ChemCity,
gases (GHG) emissions a year. to more than 2 900 since 2004.
• Selected as overall winner of the Industry, Mining and • Improving employment equity, with EE candidates making
Power Sector category of the 2009 Water Conservation up 56,4% of management staff.
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and Water Demand Management Sector Awards for a • Signatory to the launch of the South African Centre
water recovery project at Secunda that resulted in savings for Carbon Capture and Storage.
of about 18 million litres a day.
Disappointments
• Four tragic work-related fatalities. • No further improvement on the recordable case rate
• Administrative penalties imposed on Sasol Wax GmbH (RCR) of 0,50 achieved in June 2008.
and Sasol Nitro for anti-competitive behaviour.
Ongoing challenges and key focus areas 49
• Further reducing GHG emissions while repositioning • Completing the Competition Law compliance review
the company for a carbon-constrained future. of all our businesses and ensuring competition
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• Reducing our water consumption and adopting a compliance throughout the organisation.
catchment view regarding water supply and impacts, • Focusing on safety and safety leadership to improve
in line with our commitments to the UN Global our RCR.
Compact CEO Water Mandate. • Achieving EE targets.
• Continuing to develop skills.
• Continuing to meet broad-based BEE targets.
sasol’s SH&E performance targets – Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions: to reduce our emissions
intensity by 15% in all our operations by 2020 on a 2005 baseline;
• Safety – recordable case rate (RCR): Our long-term goal is zero to achieve a 20% reduction in absolute emissions for new CTL
harm, and we manage our activities according to a philosophy plants commissioned before 2020, and a 30% reduction for plants
of “zero exposure to harm”. Our target is to achieve a 10% reduction commissioned before 2030 with the 2005 CTL designs as a baseline.
year-on-year in the RCR so that we can reach less than 0,30 Sasol regularly reviews the group’s long-term absolute GHG emissions
by June 2013. This statistic includes injuries and illnesses for targets, as developments in the global climate change arena take
employees, hired labour and service providers. place. Such targets are also contingent on technical advances,
• Process safety incidents: to achieve less than three significant fires, such as carbon capture and storage, increased utilisation of renewable
explosions and releases per quarter by July 2011, and a 50% reduction energy, as well as developments in the regulatory and fiscal
in minor fires, explosions and releases on the 2006 baseline by environments in which we operate.
July 2011, with the goal of zero incidents. – Responsible care®: to achieve at least an overall 90% practice in place
• Logistics incidents: to achieve a 50% reduction in significant logistics average for Responsible Care®, and 90% specifically for product
incidents per ton of product transported, on the 2004 baseline, stewardship, by July 2011, confirmed by external verification.
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– Energy efficiency: to improve the energy efficiency of our The targets we have set for all our operations reflect our desire to be a
South African utilities by 15% per unit of production, by 2015 responsible company, but also our awareness that a strong business case
on the 2000 baseline. exists for sustainable development. As developments in the global climate
– Volatile organic compounds (VOCs): to achieve at least an change arena take place, we will review our long-term (ie, towards 2050)
80% reduction in emissions of defined VOCs on the restated absolute GHG emissions targets. These targets are also contingent
2008/2009 baseline by the end of June 2020. on technological advances and the increased use of renewable energy,
as well as developments in the regulatory and fiscal environments
in which we operate.
greenhouse gas management
investigating solutions sustaining sasol into the future
Coal is an important part of the world’s energy mix, and Sasol will Developments in the sustainable development area
continue to produce transportation fuels from coal. However, we are include the following:
committed to substantially reducing our carbon footprint by, among • In November 2009, we signed a memorandum of understanding
others, developing more efficient production processes and investigating with Gassnova SF, a Norwegian state-owned enterprise responsible
carbon-dioxide (CO2) sequestration and storage solutions. We have set 51
for managing carbon capture and storage (CCS), which will allow us
a target to reduce our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity by 15% to explore the possibility of becoming a participant in the European
(on the 2005 baseline) in all our operations by 2020, and last year spent CO2 Technology Centre Mongstad, currently under construction
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R100 million (US$11,1 million) on energy efficiency-related projects, in Norway.
which should achieve a reduction of around 760 000 tons of GHG a year. • The recordable case rate* for employees and service providers,
including injuries and illnesses, was 0,51 at 31 December 2009
Our global emissions of GHG, which have been independently verified,
compared to 0,54 at 30 June 2009. Although this is within global
decreased from 73 million tons (Mt) in 2008 to 71 Mt in 2009,
industry norms, we remain committed to further improvement.
and our emissions intensity was 3,24 (measured as CO2 equivalent
per ton of production). This compares with 3,0 in 2008 and 3,3 in 2007; • The group was rated a level 5 contributor by Empowerdex in respect
of our broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE) procurement
the worsening in intensity is due to lower production volumes.
process, meaning that for each R1,00 spent on Sasol products,
* The recordable case rate (RCR) is a standard international measure for reporting work-related injuries
customers receive R1,00 broad-based BEE preferential procurement
and illnesses and other safety incidents resulting in injury. The RCR is the number of fatalities, lost recognition. We are making good progress toward becoming
workday cases, restricted work cases, medical treatments beyond first-aid cases and accepted illnesses,
for every 200 000 employee hours worked, reported on a 12-month moving average basis. a level 4 contributor.
