Senior Specialist SHE Regulatory Enablement and Compliance at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• To enable and support the Sasol Southern Africa business with the embedding and integration of SHE regulatory compliance, aligned with the Group Compliance Services methodology, the relevant SHE strategy and the One Sasol SHE Excellence Approach. To enable consistent understanding, application and regulatory readiness across the business. To provide SHE regulatory compliance expertise and support, including the development and implementation of applicable governance frameworks, processes and tools that enable line management to identify, understand and effectively manage their SHE legal and regulatory obligations, including the unpacking, communication and enablement of SHE regulatory requirements and their associated business implications.

Key Accountabilities
SHE Regulatory developments

• Continually review and determine the applicability of SHE regulatory requirements and any changes to these and their potential impact on the business, including implementation implications for the OMEs.
• In collaboration with subject matter experts, Legal Services support and others, provide an aligned understanding of SHE regulatory requirements to enable consistent application across OMEs.
• In collaboration with subject matter experts, Legal Services and others support with the preparation, as required, of comments on these SHE regulatory requirements, or position papers to the relevant regulators or authorities. To support an aligned Sasol position on SHE regulatory matters, including through formal submissions and consultations, to support regulatory enablement and business preparedness.
• Engage as agreed, or as necessary, with regulatory authorities or other relevant forums on draft and amended SHE regulatory requirements as well as relevant regulatory matters.
• Communicate changes to SHE regulatory requirements and their implications to the OMEs including key implementation support and/or considerations relevant to regulatory readiness.

SHE Regulatory compliance

• Identify SHE regulatory compliance challenges and risks and alert the necessary stakeholders to ensure an aligned approach to providing early warning mechanisms to proactively manage risks of non-compliances and enable timely business response and regulatory readiness.
• Support Group Compliance Services (GCS) and the OME Compliance Team with accurately determining the SHE legal landscapes for the various OMEs and translating these into practical compliance requirements for implementation.
• Implement a process to monitor the development of new or amended SHE regulatory requirements and ensure that the compliance requirements are appropriately interpreted (with support from Legal Services), unpacked, compliance gaps understood, improved controls agreed captured and communicated to the relevant OMEs to facilitate proactive SHE regulatory compliance.
• Engage with OME’s, other compliance teams and risk business partners, to ensure that the risk ratings for the applicable SHE regulatory requirements are appropriately debated and accurately reflected for each OME as translating these into practical compliance requirements for implementation.
• Assist SHE SMEs with understanding their legal landscapes and associated regulatory obligations and implementation implications.
• Provide SHE expertise to support with the preparation of Critical Control Frameworks in respect of SHE related regulatory requirements, including the practical understanding and application thereof.
• Provide guidance and support to the OMEs and other compliance teams in respect of SHE regulatory requirements.
• Provide the OMEs with methodology, tools, and processes for the practical management of SHE regulatory obligations as prescribed by SHE regulatory requirements, including the structured unpacking of those obligations into actionable compliance requirements.
• Support OMEs by executing ad hoc SHE legal compliance audits as part of 2nd line assurance, aligned with the CAM principles, and other assurance providers.
• Prepare 2nd party SHE legal audit finding reports as part of the assurance activity to assist the OMEs in understanding their SHE regulatory compliance obligations, the nature of identified gaps and the required compliance response.
• Support OMEs with closing gaps and findings from assurance and inspections through regulatory guidance, clarification and enablement support.
• Enable the OMEs to provide assurance on their compliance to SHE regulatory requirements and the effectiveness of their controls to achieve improved practices with regards to SHE legal compliance through appropriate methodologies, tools, guidance and regulatory insight.
• Identify trends, gaps and themes from assurance reports and prepare communications, training and guidance to OMEs to support the remediation of recurring issues and advise on improvement areas and broader SHE regulatory compliance maturity.

SHE Regulatory Enablement

• Support with the alignment of SHE regulatory compliance governance across Southern Africa with respect to SHE authorisations, licenses, permits, and related regulatory obligations, including a reporting and tracking process to enable management visibility and decision making.
• Track and monitor all internal and external commitments related to SHE regulatory responsibilities to allow for timely delivery and appropriate responses and to support effective regulatory coordination and follow-through.
• Implement the SHE regulatory compliance and enablement framework across OMEs in Southern Africa and Mozambican Operations.
• Enable SHE regulatory compliance through management of relevant systems and processes to support in the development or investigation of appropriate enabling systems for the improvement and digitalisation of SHE regulatory compliance and associated regulatory oversight.
• Manage SHE legal appointments, health and safety authorisations, areas of responsibility, and support with SHE accountability records and processes.
• Prepare, or support with the preparation, of reports and OME notifications and communications, related to SHE regulatory compliance and regulatory commitments.
• Support, facilitate and engage as agreed, with external stakeholders and authorities on SHE regulatory compliance and enablement matters.
• As required support and provide input into external and internal stakeholder engagements relating to SHE regulatory matters including relevant compliance governance, reporting and coordination requirements.

Formal Education

• University Bachelors Degree in Law

Min Experience

• 9+ years total work experience in regulatory compliance
• SHE regulatory landscape and experience