Occupational Health and Safety Management
Significance and Management Approaches
The Company values the health and safety of employees, realizing that its operation is at risk from work hazards, illness at work, including loss or impact on employees and contractors, as well as related stakeholders. The Company is committed to controlling and reducing the impact of these risks by taking very seriously operation in compliance with safety, occupational health, work environment law; cultivating a culture from senior management to employees at all levels through the implementation of the safety, occupational health, and work environment policies; and developing and raising the standards of the management system to cover the application of legal requirements and other related standards to strengthen and promote a continuous and sustainable safety culture.
Safety
Safety, Occupational Health, and Work Environment Manual
The Company develops a safety, occupational health, and work environment manual to disseminate work rules and regulations for all employees to strictly follow and use as a standard for managing the safety of workers or contractors who are business partners to ensure that their operations comply with requirements, leading to the safety of all operators and other stakeholders.
Risk Assessment of Construction Work
The Company assesses work safety risks, including regular risk reviews, to understand the various conditions that can cause danger and violence, leading to accidents and unwanted events. The aim is to stipulate measures to lessen and control such risks to the lowest level possible in practice, as well as being one of the determinants of rules, regulations, and guidelines for safety operation as specified in the Company’s safety, occupational health, and work environment manual.
Training on Safety for Supervisors and Executives
The Company organizes training to provide safety knowledge to supervisory employees and operational executives to understand safety management principles and to be able to supervise, control, and track operations, promote, support, and raise safety awareness among employees and contractors in line with its safety policy. A total of 83 employees participated in the training.
Safety Training for Construction Employees and Contractors
The Company organizes training to provide knowledge and explain safety policy, and work safety management, promote and support safety matters to employees in the Construction Department and contractors to understand the principles of the Company’s safety management, and to be able to implement in a uniform direction to reduce risks and accidents at work.
Safety Training for New Employees
The Company organizes training to provide knowledge of safety, occupational health, and work environment for new employees to understand the Company's safety operation, including law, rules, regulations, and to educate them about the risks and hazards involved in working, as well as the importance of compliance with regulations and safety awareness among employees.
Safety Inspection in the Work Areas
Inspection and monitoring of safety, occupational health, and work environment operation are carried out in the construction project areas according to the plan to ensure contractors’ operating safety in accordance with the law and the safety manual, including dissemination of safety information to workers at all levels.
Occupational Health
Employee Health Care
The Company provides annual health checkups for all employees to monitor their health and continually check the possible effects of work on them and advocate good health through the promotion of exercises. The Company continually allocates a budget to support these activities such as yoga, Zumba dancing, football competition, and others for all interested employees.
Employee Health Protection
Regarding the epidemics, the Company has established measures to continuously monitor the situation, spanning both Covid-19, which has subsequently been categorized as an endemic disease, and other potential epidemics in order to deal with situations that may affect the health of employees, including the Company’s business operations by setting guidelines for surveillance as follows:
- Follow the outbreak situation from news issued by the government
- Communicate information and advices to employees, such as
- Maintain health and exercise regularly to build immunity
- Wear a mask when infected with a contagious disease or when in need of going to a crowded
- Follow the situation response plan when receiving reports of illnesses from an epidemic according to established procedures.
In addition, the Company arranges for employees to receive seasonal epidemic vaccination, such as influenza vaccines, to boost their immunity every year.