EMPLOYEE HEALTH AND WELFARE
Illovo Sugar operates in Least Developed Countries (LDC’s) with significant developmental challenges.
Providing a working environment in which our employees can operate in a healthy, energised and
engaged manner is vital to maintaining personal development and to our business success. We strive to
provide a workplace free from undue health risk emanating from our core activities. We also aim
proactively to reduce workplace health risks by anticipating, assessing and managing health risk, and
providing access to quality health care and educating, informing and empowering our management and
staff to take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing. To this end, our clinics often represent the
state-of-the-art in workplace health in countries in which we operate, and are winners of multiple Ministry
of Health awards for excellence.
Managed health care
Access to health care is provided to all our employees and their dependants, either through the network
of group-run primary health care clinics and hospitals, and through the provision of medical aid /
insurance schemes. Total spend on employee health in 2014/15 amounted to R90.1 million. Where no
other suitable public medical facilities exist, these services are extended to members of our surrounding
communities at nominal cost. In support of these activities, the company also provides public health
services not supplied by government such as potable water, sanitation and refuse removal, by upgrading
these where deficient.
We operate 25 primary health care clinics and four hospitals, staffed with nine full-time and ten part-time
doctors, together with other clinical and auxiliary staff. The focus of the health care service is on health
promotion, preventative services and primary health care.
Access to health care is provided to all our employees and their dependants, either through the network
of group-run primary health care clinics and hospitals, or through the provision of medical aid / insurance
schemes. Total spend on employee health in 2014/15 amounted to R90.1 million.
