SOCIAL VALUE CREATION SOCIAL VALUE CREATION SETTING OUR APPROACH ON OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY The health and safety of our employees has always been a priority at UEM Edgenta. It is our belief that by ensuring a secure working environment that focuses on the physical safety, security and wellbeing of our people, we can foster greater motivation, goodwill and dedication. In addition, we commit to ensuring that the healthy and safe work environment we provide includes coverage for other key stakeholders of the Group, such as our vendors/suppliers. By empowering our people with the ability to focus on their job functions without distraction of discomfort or potential hazards, we enable them to function efficiently and thus positively impact our business. Likewise, given the importance of a healthy and safe environment, we aspire to continually ensure the adoption of best practices, maintain full adherence to all regulations and persistently enhance our efforts wherever possible. Our OE & HSSE department presently play a key role in ensuring the optimum version of our health and safety framework. This is crucial as the Group adheres to the guidelines of all its adopted standard requirements. Overall, our intention remains to pursue and achieve our Goal Zero* ambitions. FEATURED STORY PROMOTING THE HEALTH AND FITNESS OF EDGENTA STARS As we begin emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have started returning to our workplace more regularly in 2022. However, Edgenta continue to promote a flexible working arrangement allowing staff to practice a hybrid mode of working, blending both working from home and at the office. We understand that working from home may pose a risk for staff slipping into a sedentary lifestyle or feeling isolated, leading to feeling constant pressure or even experiencing mental health issues. With that, Edgenta launched Project DASS as a pilot during the pandemic and last year increased the coverage of this project to cover more staff. DASS is a survey that promotes early identification of mental illness among our employees to allow them for early treatment. In 2022, 2,389 employees were assessed under this programme and a third party was appointed to provide Employee Assistance Programme to resolve personal issues affecting work performance because of mental health conditions. The programme succeeded in breaking the emotional barrier among staff to discuss mental health issues more openly in a safe environment. Besides, we also acknowledge that a passive lifestyle may also cause health issues or unhealthy habits. With that in mind, one of the primary causes of noncommunicable diseases (“NCDs”) in Malaysia is obesity and lung failure caused by smoking. Through our Physical Health Assessment which was launched during the year, we were able to identify the percentage of our employees that suffer from obesity as well as those who smoke within our organisation. The identified employees are then invited to participate in health campaigns such as the Weight Warriors Programme and the Smoking Cessation Programme. The programmes aim to help participants to achieve a weight reduction of 10%, or to reduce their smoking rate by 30% by 2025. As of the end of 2022, the top 5 teams, consisting of 25 people of the Weight Warriors Programme had experienced an average weight loss of 22.3% of their total original weight while 50 participants from the Smoking Cessation Programme are still tracking their progress up until June 2023. Occupational Health and Safety Management System A comprehensive system that is implemented based on the standard requirements of ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 and is guided by local rules and regulations as well as other relevant HSSE legal requirements and industrial codes of practice. For our entities in Malaysia, the system adheres to the following regulations: - Occupational Health and Safety Act 1994 - Factories and Machineries Act 1967 - Environmental Quality Act 1974 - Fire Services (BOMBA) Act 1988 With the Group-wide implementation of this system, 100% of our business units are now certified under ISO 14001 and ISO 45001. All our key stakeholders (i.e., employees, contractors and vendors) are covered by the occupational health and safety management system, including by way of the implementation of relevant policies and procedures. In 2021, the Group took another step beyond its adoption of common standardised health and safety practices by being the first Malaysian company to be certified under the ISO 45005:2020 (Occupational Health and Safety Management – General Guidelines for Safe Working During the COVID-19 Pandemic). This certification has allowed the Group to stay focused at managing key risks arising from COVID-19, in which protecting the health, safety and wellbeing of our employees remained key. Occupational Health and Safety * Goal Zero refers to no fatality cases, no harm to people, and no damage to the environment across all levels of the Group. Quality Health, Safety, Security and Environment Policy In line with our certification with standardised health and safety practices, the Group also maintain a QHSSE Policy. With the policy, it provides an overarching guidance for our practices at managing matters relating to health and safety of our stakeholders. Along with the guidance it provides, the policy is also a key representation of our commitment to: Comply and exceed beyond all applicable statutory and regulatory requirements; Achieve the objective of causing no harm to people while protecting the environment; Embed health and safety related targets as part of our employees’ performance assessment; Require our contractors to meet health and safety standards in line with this policy; Lead a systematic approach at adopting health and safety practices that are developed to meet our stakeholders’ expectations while continue to pursue further enhancement; Pursue improvement over our adoption of health and safety policies and procedures by seeking to identify, reduce and eliminate risks or hazards through engagement with our stakeholders; and Seek potential cooperation with third parties via joint ventures in view of achieving key objectives of this policy as well as to promote the Group’s stance on health and safety. p.150 p.151 UEM EDGENTA BERHAD INTEGRATED ANNUAL REPORT 2022 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT
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