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Safety & Health Programs & Achievements
Occupational safety and health outline an essential part of Gamuda Group’s CSR program. In line to improve our working conditions and employment practices while minimizing safety and health risks especially at project sites, the following major reporting guidelines were included in 2008/2009:
- ‘Zero Violation’ by constantly reviewing, monitoring and improving the effectiveness of the Safety & Health procedures in provision for a safe and healthy working environment.
- ‘Zero Fatality’ and ‘Zero Accident’ at site to reduce non-compliance cases on Safety & Health through risk assessment.
- ‘Zero Stop-Work’ order or penalty to comply with relevant Safety & Health legislations and regulations.
- Increase the number of trainings to all personnel to improve their awareness and knowledge on Safety & Health issues.
In order to achieve the Group’s Safety & Health objectives, awareness trainings and tool box meetings were conducted to staff and sub-contractors. Performed before commencement of work at site, the tool box briefings cover a wide range of topics such as scaffolding, personal hygiene, safe handling, defensive driving, housekeeping, welfare and other safe working methods.
To further ensure persistent compliance of Safety & Health procedures among stakeholders, site inspections with the Department of Occupational Safety & Health (DOSH) and Internal Audits were often carried out as per legislation and regulatory requirements.
From these initiatives, the Group managed to achieve a track record of:
- 18 Million ‘Man-hours without a Lost Time Injury’ for the New Doha International Airport Project in Qatar.
- Reduction of accidents, first aid cases, and incidents or offences related to traffic across all Gamuda Group’s projects.
- Recorded over 90% attendances from employees and sub-contractors for briefings and trainings.
Going beyond this in our quest to raise the profile of occupational health and safety in Gamuda’s CSR agenda, a more comprehensive measuring and reporting system will be employed to allow future improvement to take place.
For the coming calendar year, the Group will review and revise its existing standard operating procedures to better suit the current implementation. An accountability system will be developed at all levels of the organization where every personnel will be aware of their responsibilities in meeting the Safety & Health requirements. Management and construction teams will be involved in risk and hazard assessment, and the result shall be communicated effectively to all employees.
In addition, hazard identification, risk assessment and control measures will be consistently enhanced. Extra awareness on legal compliance and requirements with clients, authorities and regulatory bodies will be strongly emphasized among employees.
Safety & Health induction for workers at the New Doha International Airport (NDIA) site.
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