Sustainability Statement Sustainability Statement OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH Performance • 17 in house safety professionals were trained in a 2-day workshop to assist in cascading safety leadership programme to all line managers and supervisors • 25 Directors and Senior Management, and 140 line managers and supervisors attended the safety leadership programme • QL Poultry Farms Sdn. Bhd. successfully obtained ISO 45001:2018 (OSH Management System) certification • 22.6% year-on-year improvement in LTIFR performance that was contributed by a significant increase of 60.2% total manhours and additional 3 business units added into the scope of sustainability reporting Our Approach QL believes in advancing our occupational safety and health management and practices as an integral part of our business culture. We remain committed to providing and fostering a safe work culture that safeguards the safety and health of all our employees, contractors and communities. We undertake safety initiatives and programmes identified through safety observation, monitoring, and consultation to strengthen and improve the safety and health in our workplace. We rely on our management and people managers to demonstrate visible commitment through behaviourbased safety approach and for all employees to uphold the OSH Guiding Principles of WECARE. Safety Leadership and Commitment The management and leaders of QL are committed to developing a safe and healthy workplace. The determination and focus to improve safety culture at QL are through participation, involvement and engagement of line management and workers. In our journey to advance our safety culture, QL embarks on a safety leadership programme that involves top management, line managers and supervisors. This programme is essential to strengthen leadership and commitment of leaders in safety management by means of behaviour-based safety approach. A total of 17 Safety Professionals at all QL business units are trained as trainers in a two-day training workshop. The workshop prepared our Safety Professional as resources to assist on the quick rollout, and cascading the safety management tools and skills to people managers at their business units. Living by our OSH guiding principles of WECARE and as part of demonstrated leadership at QL, a total of 25 Directors and Senior Management attended a 1-day safety leadership training. The training was explicitly developed for sharpening the safety management skills, knowledge and understanding of senior management. A total of seven business sites (38.8%), which consist of 140 line managers and supervisors attended a safety leadership training over a period of three months. This initiative will continue to roll out to cover at least 90% of QL leaders. Raising Our Safety Standards Part of our approach to improve our safety standards is through communication of essential safety information and expectations. Quarterly meets, sharing and learning sessions with all safety professionals and Group OSH work committee were conducted to encourage participants on sharing, involvement and contribution of safe work practices. Safety induction was also conducted to ensure that our employees are inducted before commencing work and this has been a standard practice at QL. In our drive to raise safety standards, we successfully completed the OSH Management System pilot project at QL Poultry Farm Sdn. Bhd. and received certification of ISO 45001:2018 OSH Management System on 20 November 2022. This initiative is now extended to QL Kitchen Sdn. Bhd. with initial gap assessment completed and is in planning stage to kick-off the implementation and certification process. An internally ISO 45001 sub-committee is formed at Group level to assist other business units on the commencement of preparation work for certification journey way before business units commit to embark formally. Managing Our Safety Performance The company-wide process of managing safety risk and people’s behaviour at the workplace is well implemented at operation areas of all our subsidiaries. Feedback shows that 84.2% of the subsidiaries re-assess their risk and legal compliance to identify potential OSH issues for continual improvement. QL monitors and reviews our OSH performance on a quarterly basis. In FY2023, there was one fatal injury reported and the number of lost time injuries (fatal and lost time) has increased by 19.4% compared to last financial year. However, FY2023 recorded a significant increase of total worked hour by approximately 60.2%, and QL Group finished the year with a Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) of 3.31 LTI per million hours or 0.66 LTI per 200,000 hours, an improvement of 22.6%. The increase in the number of injuries and total worked hours was contributed by the additional three business units joining into the sustainability reporting group. In FY2023, the number of reported incidents has reduced by approximately 33.0%. The management recognises the importance of reporting near-miss or significant safety occurrence and non-lost time injury as part of our proactive accident prevention initiative and acknowledges the need of encouraging more reporting of these incidents. We will be putting more efforts to ensure strict compliance with the requirements stipulated in Factories and Machinery Act and Guidelines for Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment and Risk Control (HIRARC) as the number of non-compliance incidents in these areas has increased. Train the Trainer Safety Leadership Training held on 8 and 9 December 2022 Safety Leadership Training for Directors and Senior Management held on 10 February 2023 FY2021 4.41 FY2022 4.28 FY2023 3.31 FY2021 525 FY2022 351 FY2023 235 Financial Year (FY) Fatality (F) Lost Time Injury (LTI) Non-Lost Time Injury (nLTI) Occupational Illness, Poisoning & Diseases (OI, P&D) Near-miss/ Significant Safety Occurrence (NM/SSO) Non- Compliance (NC) 2021 1 67 428 1 25 3 2022 0 72 245 0 33 1 2023 1 86 115 0 26 7 Group Safety Performance Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (per million hours) Group Safety Performance (Total Incident Reported) QL RESOURCES BERHAD INTEGRATED ANNUAL REPORT 2023 SEC. SUSTA I N A B I L I TY STATEMENT 5 061 060 PG. PG.
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