vi. employees must notify the head of department or human resource, if he/she has close contact with a confirm or probable positive COVID-19 person; vii. adopting work from home for management staff to reduce social contact; viii. adopting alternate working day to minimise the number of employees in the office. These arrangements were modified in line with the various phase of the Movement Control Orders (“MCO”); ix. Leverage on technology by providing the video conferencing tools to reduce or avoid face-to-face interactions; and x. performing mandatory COVID-19 testing for all manufacturing staffs and construction workers at project sites. The Group is striving to raise employees’ safety and health awareness by providing training programs, anti-COVID-19 memos and guidelines to ensure the working environment is healthy, safe and congenial. During the Financial Year, there was 26 work-days lost due to work-related injury, no serious work injury case and no work-related fatality was recorded. The Group has always put emphasis on the assessment of potential hazards in the plant, and according to the results of the assessment of safety executives, training to enhance occupational health and safety has been strengthened, thereby enhancing the safety awareness and operational skills of employees. The Group has stepped up training for all employees, in particular for the training of the new employees who may lack the awareness of occupational health and safety as well as experience, in order to minimise cases of work injuries. 3.1.2 Shift to virtual engagement platforms In order to ensure the safety of our stakeholders, the Group had moved some of our engagement activities to virtual platforms. In FY2021, the Company had organised our Annual General Meeting with shareholders remote participation and voting. 3.1.3 Development and Training The Group aspires to develop and grow with the employees and is willing to invest in both work-related training and personal development of the human capital. In general, the Group provides diversified onthe-job trainings based on the needs of respective positions, talents and interests of employees. The Group provide both internal and external trainings for the employees, including specialised trainings for different departments, management trainings as well as soft skills trainings. Moreover, the Group’s guidelines are established to assess the performance of employee so as to identify and implement development programs for employees. The Group also organised some trainings for employees to improve in work efficiency and better awareness of rules and regulations, such as:- • briefing for new employees to familiarise with the company environment and departmental requirements; • first aid training for proper and effective way to handle accidents related to injured employees at work, as well as to strengthen occupational health and safety to prevent unexpected occupational diseases or viruses; • fire-fighting protection training to enhance the awareness of fire prevention, and fire drill in a proper and effective manner; • on-the-job trainings based on the needs of respective positions and talents and interests of employees to enhance the employees’ work skills and techniques in term of technical and management skills; and • internal and external trainings for employees, including specialised trainings such as ISO trainings, tax and financial trainings, management trainings as well as soft skills trainings. 37 P R G H O L D I N G S B E R H A D A N N U A L R E P O R T 2 0 2 1 Sustainability Report (cont’d)
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