FGV Annual Report 2016

FELDA GLOBAL VENTURES HOLDINGS BERHAD 78 SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (OSH) REPORTING ON WHAT MATTERS As our business activities are labour intensive, FGV takes special care to ensure the safety and health of its employees and workers. OSH is overseen by our 15 members from Group Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) Department. Since its establishment in 2009, the HSE Department has been reducing consistently the number of accidents and incidents within the Group and, more significantly, brought the Group's OSH management practices more in line with those of multinational organisations. OSH MANAGEMENT IN FGV The Group's OSH structure comprises several levels. At the top is the Group's HSE Steering Committee, which comprises representatives from all six (6) business clusters. The representatives are appointed by the GP/CEO from key management personnel including business CEOs. Added to these are representatives from three (3) OSH-related departments — Sustainability, Security and Risk Management; with the Group HSE Department acting as the Committee Secretariat. The Committee is chaired by the Chief Human Resources Officer. He acts as the go between, escalating major issues to the GP/CEO and FGV EXCO as well as cascading down major decisions from them. The role of the HSE Steering Committee is to provide direction, support, and cluster perspective on safety and health matters as well as help to facilitate cross-Cluster initiatives. It meets every quarter, during which, the Committee members are provided a comprehensive brief on the Group's OSH performance and progress, to review. At least once a year, GP/CEO attends the meeting, demonstrating OSH championship from the very top of the organisation. Decisions made by the HSE Steering Committee pertaining to managing the overall safety performance of the Group - are then translated by the Group HSE Department into strategies and initiatives. These, in turn, are cascaded downwards to companies within the Group through the HSE Management Committee. The HSE Management Committee comprise persons from all major businesses under the FGV Group in whom are vested OSH accountability. Most of them have the 'Green Book'; that is, they are officers certified competent by and registered with the Department of Occupational Safety & Health (DOSH) Malaysia. The Group HSE department receives monthly Lost Time Injury Reports from all worksites. Nonetheless, the HSE Management Committee still meets every quarter to review fatalities, incidents and dangerous occurrences as well as the status of corrective and preventive actions. These meetings also serve as the forum to raise individual company concerns, discuss common issues and co-ordinate implementation of Group-wide programmes. GOING BEYOND COMPLIANCE FGV Group takes its focus on occupational safety and health very seriously to the extent that it goes beyond compliance in ensuring the health and safety of its workers. We have voluntarily employed 'Green Book' Safety and Health Officers (SHOs). Select industries are required by law to have one SHO per 500 employees. With a total of 38 SHOs in the Group, FGV's SHO to employee ratio more than adequately meets that requirement even though as an agricultural-based business, FGV is not legally-mandated to even employ SHOs.