Sustainability Report Our United Nations Sustainable Development (“UN SDGs”) Alignment The United Nations Sustainable Development (“UN SDGs”) are a set of 17 global goals established by the UN General Assembly in 2015 to make the world a better place by 2030. The goals intend to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Wasco is aligned with the UNSDGs and committed to contributing to their framework to enhance sustainable initiatives. The Group also calls on all its partners across the business to collaborate on achieving these goals. While our activities touch on nine of the seventeen goals, we have identified four UNSDGs that impact our sustainability strategy where we can make the most contributions in these areas. Goals Our Commitment Progress and Achievements • Provide a safe and healthy workplace for our staff and contractors by embracing internationally recognised HSE Management Systems, namely ISO 45001:2018 for Health & Safety and ISO 14001:2015 for the environment. • Achieve Zero Lost-time Incidents (“LTI”). • All sites in the organisation either have been or are being certified with the ISO 45001:2018 for Health & Safety and ISO 14001:2015 for the Environment. • On-going implementation of i-Start initiative to enable a safety culture transformation. • Tracking leading and lagging KPIs and taking action for continuous improvement. • Performing periodic inspections, audits, and safety observations addresses gaps and prevents incidents. • Launched Digital Care Card initiative, digitalising analysis of safety observations and providing insights on potential safety issues. • Establish policies to promote gender equality in recruitment, compensation, training, promotion and work-life balance. • Eliminate sexual harassment, violence, discrimination and other harmful practices against women in the workplace. • 15% of Senior Leadership Team are female. • Clearly articulating statements on equal opportunity and non-discrimination in the Principles of Business Conduct and Human Rights Statement. • Develop a high performing entrepreneurial culture (culture of curiosity) in the Company where all staff give their best. • Develop leaders at all levels of the Company and create a learning and coaching mindset amongst all staff. • Quarterly reviews for performance assessment and coaching. • Talent development through regular training and digital learning platform. • High retention of senior management. • Annual performance appraisals for compensation and promotion. • Reduce emissions by improving energy efficiency, transitioning to renewable energy such as solar power and offsetting residual emissions through inhouse programmes such as tree planting. • Tracking, analysing and reporting of Group greenhouse gas emissions (“GHG”) using digital dashboard developed internally. • Completed planting 160,000 trees and on-going maintenance of our reforestation programme as part of our effort to mitigate climate change. • Subscribed to 500,000 kWH/month Green Energy Tariff by TNB. • Solar panels at various sites generated 698MWh of renewable energy for our operation’s use. 54 Integrated Annual Report 2023
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