UEM EDGENTA BERHAD ANNUAL REPORT 2021 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION & ANALYSIS 91 90 Promoting the Health and Well-being of Employees Apart from occupational health and safety, we place equal importance on the health and well-being of our employees by providing various healthcare programmes and advocating a healthier lifestyle. Our employees from across the executive and non-executive levels are given access to health screening programmes and medical services in panel clinics across Malaysia. Employees also have access to non-occupational medical and healthcare services from a third-party provider, as well as psychologist or psychiatrist consultation for mental health, which is sponsored by the organisation. A spending allowance is provided to all employees for their medical and health expenses. Emotional Well-being Occupational Health Prevention & Promotion Work-related Ill Health Prevention Held a Depression Anxiety Stress Scale survey to measure emotional illness symptoms as part of an effort to improve employees’ emotional well-being Carried out a Chemical Health Risk Assessment to evaluate the health risk of chemical handling among workers Conducted an Ergonomic Risk Assessment to identify any ergonomic risk factor in the Helathcare Support division. Going forward, we plan to conduct the ERA across all our business divisions in UEM Edgenta Rolled out a Muscular Skeletal Disorder project to analyse and improve workplace ergonomics based on ergonomic risk factors identified in ERA Conducted a Noise Risk Assessment to assess the noise level employees were exposed to and to recommend corrective actions COVID-19 Infection, Prevention & Control Management In response to challenges and disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic, we focused on ensuring the physical and emotional well-being of our employees and external stakeholders. Guided by the ISO/PAS 45005:2020 (Occupational health and safety management — General guidelines for safe working during the COVID-19 pandemic), we endeavoured to ensure our operating procedures and facilities aligned with best practices. Further to that, various activities and initiatives were implemented throughout the year: • Conducted Life’s Simple 7, a survey to collect the following three health data points as a baseline for our Positive Workplace Programme and for cardiovascular health improvement: o Blood pressure o Cholesterol o Blood sugar • Conducted #Befit programme to assess and monitor physical fitness of employees. For a start, a total of 80 employees underwent 7 battery tests developed based on the National Physical Fitness Test routines. We plan to expand the programme to cover more employees in the coming years. • Implemented a 3-minute exercise (Taiso) routine every morning with total touchpoint of 88,413 throughout 2021. Taiso helps to activate the body prior to daily routine chores and improves employee physical fitness. • Implemented Fitness to Work programme, a medical assessment conducted by a qualified or certified Occupational Health Doctor or Occupational Health Physician to ensure employees are fit to go back to work. The OHDs held monthly meetings with all the HSSE leaders from all the business divisions. Advocating Health and Safety within Our Value Chain Our sustainability practices are not limited to within our organisation and are extended to our business partners and vendors. We strive to embed sustainability in our value chain by advocating sustainability practices and providing guidelines to our business partners and vendors. Our business partners as well as anyone providing on-site services are required to comply with UEM Edgenta’s Business Partner Code of Conduct and uphold UEM Edgenta’s occupational health and safety standards. They are also expected to provide a healthy and safe workplace for their employees and comply with all applicable health and safety laws, regulations and standards, including site-specific safety requirements. As part of our effort to advocate best health and safety practices for contractors and business partners, we initiated a Contractor HSSE Development Programme (Projek Perintis) and identified 15 Perintis Contractors, who will be developed to drive UEM Edgenta HSSE initiatives across our operations. The Perintis project will create an ecosystem for Health and Safety best practices to be adopted by other contractors. We have also established a HSSE Capability Assessment (“HCA”) and HSSE Consequence Management (“HCM”) assessment to evaluate and monitor our suppliers’ health and safety practices. HSSE Capability Assessment This assessment helps to identify registered contractors who have the HSSE capability to participate in UEM Edgenta’s tender exercise. Contractors are expected to achieve ratings above 2-stars to be allowed to participate in a tenders. In December 2021, a pilot online HSSE capability assessment was completed for the 15 Perintis Contractors, whereby: We will develop a programme under the Projek Perintis to improve the compliance of contractors who failed to meet the requirement of 2-stars. We will also roll out the HCA to the rest of our registered active contractors in 2022. (12 contractors) rated themselves ≥2-stars 80% (11 contractors) were rated ≤ 2-stars by the assessors 73% To guide our contractors, we organised several HSSE contractor safety initiatives in 2021: • Contractor Engagement Roadshow 2021 • e-PTW system implementation in Infrastructure services • Revision of HSSE Management Requirements • HSSE Performance Management HSSE Consequence Management The HCM was established to assess suppliers and contractors on their compliance to UEM Edgenta’s HSSE requirements. Contractors with HSSE violations or non-conformance to HSSE requirements will be penalised. HSSE Consequence Management Online Live HSSE Consequence Management Process HSSE Violation based on 12 Life Saving Rules & risk matrix Issuance of HCM by HSSE Practitioner Deduction from the next payment 1 2 3 SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT
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