FGV Annual Report 2015

162 Felda Global Ventures Holdings Berhad Annual Integrated Report 2015 ACCIDENT PREVENTION In line with our aim to have zero fatalities at FGV Group, accident prevention is an on-going effort. This takes the form of, among others, accident monitoring, accident investigations, Root Cause Analysis of incidents and enhancing effectiveness of Safety & Health Committees. A year-long audit programme sees the Group’s Safety & Health Officers (SHOs) embedded at the different localities making site visits to their projects, complemented by Level 2 audits by Corporate HSE Department. Of the latter, 61 audits were conducted in 2015. These employ an audit- and-guide approach. They aimed less at fault-finding, but rather, at identifying legal compliance and system conformance coupled with hand- holding to help the workplaces to improve their total safety management. The findings of the Level 2 audits showed that all the sites exceeded the acceptable level in legal compliance, system conformance, accident prevention, operational control and awareness levels. Findings of the audits were further analysed to determine the contributory factors. As an added measure, in 2015, we introduced Level 1 Audits involving site visits by members of the HSE Steering Committee, comprising business Chief Executive Officers and Heads. While these are aimed more at assessing the quality of HSE leadership at that particular workplace, it has the added benefit of demonstrating top management commitment to safety while connecting ground-level operatives with policy and decision makers in FGV Group. MANAGEMENT OF HSE IN FGV Group The Group’s safety performance and other HSE-related issues are deliberated upon at a meeting of the HSE Steering Committee once every three months. The HSE Steering Committee is chaired by the Chief Human Resources Officer who then brings major issues, if any, to the attention of the Group President/Chief Executive Officer and FGV EXCO. The other members of the Committee comprise representatives of all the business clusters - mostly Chief Executive Officers of subsidiary companies - as well as Felda Security; and the Chief Risk Officer while Corporate HSE Department acts as a Committee Secretariat. The HSE Steering Committee provides direction, top level support, cluster perspective on safety matters as well as help to facilitate cross-Cluster initiatives. In all HSE matters in FGV Group, Corporate HSE department plays a leading role – monitoring overall safety performance, developing strategies and galvanising subsidiary companies to implement various programmes to enhance the Group’s safety performance. In this, it is supported by a 18-member HSE Management Committee comprising executives from Corporate HSE and representatives of major subsidiaries – which meets also once every three months. The subsidiary safety officers are, in turn, assisted by Safety & Health Committees at the respective workplaces. In a move that goes beyond mere compliance, FGV Group also employs 35 “Green Book” Safety and Health Officers (SHOs), registered as competent by the Department of Safety & Health (DOSH). This meets the ratio of one SHO per 500 employees spelled out by the law for mandated industries, although it is not mandated for companies in the agricultural sector like FGV Group. Thus, a practical and effective framework is in place at top management, Group and then subsidiary company and operational levels to manage safety; upwards and downwards, at FGV Group. Taking Safety and Health to the Next Level