OHS Culture
Occupational Health and Safety Culture
GRI 403-2 (2018), 403-3 (2018), 403-4 (2018), 403-6 (2018)
One of the safety cultures which has been effectively implemented throughout the organization is the B-CAREs Project. This project emphasizes on safe working behaviors, risk assessments, and awareness of potential accidents in the workplace.
GC conducts risk assessments and evaluates the likelihood of work-related accidents, as well as implements activities that promote Management Safety Leadership Commitment by executives at different levels and safety engagement by all workers, including employees, contractors and key suppliers. These initiatives include Management Safety and the Reliability Walk, a Management Safety Speech in Basic Safety Training, Safety Talks, and Safety Walks and Observation (SWO). Furthermore, GC also implements other requirements including Pre-Task Effective Tool Box Talk, Pre-Task Planning Checkpoint, internal inspection, procedures to investigate work-related injuries, ill health, diseases and incidents, and the possibility for workers to stop tasks that are deemed unsafe. In order to better enhance the occupational health and safety culture, GC has applied Operational Discipline (OD) characteristics of all employees and contractors in practice according to the roles and duties of each level under the “B-CAREs in Action by Operational Discipline (OD)” project.
In addition, GC wants all of our staff to be healthy in mind, body, and spirit. This is why the company has a healthcare program that provides medical check-ups for employees when they start work to collect baseline data on the employee’s health, health pre-screening program, followed by an annual health check-up. We do this to assess risk factors for each employee group, focusing on preventing potential health risks or conditions that can lead to occupational illnesses. The health check-up results are strictly confidential in accordance with GC’s Privacy Policy.
Moreover, GC has implemented various projects based on sustainability principles to promote employee health and well-being. For more information, Employee Well-being
Examples of Occupational Health and Safety Culture Projects
GC Zero ICU with Zero Compromise
GC strives to create operational excellence to facilitate the achievement of the ultimate goal to become a Zero Incident, Zero Complaint, Zero Unplanned Shutdown (Zero ICU) organization. The company also strengthens safety culture for employees within and beyond the organization through continuous knowledge transfer to empower their ability to monitor and govern safety in the organization, covering all activities carried out by employees, contractors and key suppliers.
Leadership: Executives monthly convey workplace safety statistics and demonstrate felt leadership to prevent on-site accidents.
Ownership: Raise awareness of Area Owner Excellence and Job Owner Excellence; create safety commitment; perform audits and discuss about the safety of tools and operators; and submit daily reports.
Partnership: Promote and encourage contractors to observe the B-CARES safety culture and align their operations with GC’s safety measures while having the courage to “raise the alarm” and “stop” when onsite risks or unsafe circumstances are detected.
Reshaping B-CAREs 2024
“Follow the Rules, Have Discipline, Place Safety First”
GC further strengthens B-CAREs safety culture by associating it with the concept of Operational Discipline (OD) to serve as a tool to reinforce the practice of doing it right with discipline. Meanwhile, the company utilizes the Inspirational Leadership Program (ILP) as a mechanism to create Leadership & Commitment to enable workers to understand, remember, and put the concept into practice with ease. Such efforts will eventually transform GC into a Zero ICU (Zero Incident, Zero Complaint, Zero Unplanned Shutdown) organization.
Contractor Safety Partnership Project
The Contractor Safety Partnership Project was created to encourage contractors to form their own safety management system while fostering a continuous and sustainable B-CAREs safety culture. The project encourages and motivates contractors to operate in accordance with GC Group’s safety standards. The Contractor Safety Partnership consists of the following four steps:
Proactive Safety Program GRI
This program is aimed at helping develop operators’ potential to understand and be aware of safety, reliability and integrity of machineries, along with the lesson learnt through the incident-based learning program. As a result, employees are able to identify, prevent and correct the risks related to their responsible work. Employees are also able to communicate to operators regarding safety prior to working and stop work immediately, if there is an unsafe situation. Additionally, GC has plans to adopt the decision making system to be used across the organization for safety, reliability and integrity of machineries, whilst also considering the knowledge and capability of employees or also known as technical authority.
GC promotes employees and contractors engagement in caring for safety using the following approach.
