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Keppel Corporation launches its “Safety Starts with Me” initiative
Under this initiative, Keppel Shipyard is implementing its Safety Excellence 2010 programme to empower its entire workforce, including contractors, to create an incident free workplace.
Keppel Corporation underscores further commitment to safety with the launch of its “Safety Starts with Me” initiative.
This initiative aims to imbue in every single employee a sense of personal and collective responsibility to ensure that everyone returns home safely at the end of each work day.
“Safety Starts with Me” is a follow-up to Keppel Group’s adoption of “Five Key Principles for Safety” in October 2007 during its inaugural Annual Safety Convention.
Keppel’s belief in ensuring that safety is addressed as a matter of top priority for the Group was voiced by Mr Lim Chee Onn, Executive Chairman, Keppel Corporation.
He said, “We in Keppel believe that safety is a never-ending journey that requires a life-long commitment from each and everyone of us.
“A safe and healthy work environment has always formed an important part of Keppel’s care and concern for our staff welfare. Indeed our safety workplan is always an integral part of our continued efforts to improve our operational efficiency.”
With the Group’s large workforce, Keppel Shipyard, a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Corporation through Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited (Keppel O&M), is leading the way in reaching out to its employees and subcontractors in a systematic and focused manner to realise this goal.
Keppel Shipyard will launch a Safety Excellence 2010 programme, spelling out the objectives it seeks to achieve by year 2010.
With the support of major stakeholders, Keppel Shipyard’s Safety Excellence 2010 programme encompasses a range of safety schemes and upgrading programmes for its entire workforce including its large pool of subcontractors.
Commenting on Keppel’s initiatives, Mr Gan Kim Yong, Acting Minister for Manpower, said, “I am encouraged by these initiatives because, for Singapore to achieve higher workplace safety standards, industry must take the lead to promote safety.”
He highlighted three main ways to improve safety - by raising standards through setting of acceptable workplace health and safety practices, building new and stronger capabilities to manage safety and health at workplaces and finally by improving and developing a vibrant safety culture through collective effort, cooperation and strong partnership of all stakeholders.
Keppel Shipyard’s Multi-Stakeholder Involvement :
Major stakeholders partnering Keppel Shipyard in this exercise include ExxonMobil Development Company (ExxonMobil), Shell International Exploration and Production, Single Buoy Moorings (SBM) and Prosafe Production.
They have pledged an initial amount of more than $2 million as sponsorships for various safety schemes under the Safety Excellence 2010. The bulk of its customer sponsorships will go to the support of safety programmes for subcontractors who make up more than two-thirds (2/3) of Keppel Shipyard’s daily attendance of 14,000 workers.
This is on top of the $13 million safety budget that the Keppel O&M Group has set aside for the promotion and implementation of workplace safety in Singapore for 2008.
Reiterating the importance of bringing all stakeholders on board, Mr Nelson Yeo, Executive Director of Keppel Shipyard, said, “Keppel Shipyard firmly believes in the partnership of our clients and contractors in order to provide safe, high quality services at a fast turnaround time.
“As such, we want all our contractors to continue to participate in all the training and development schemes that will be implemented as part of our Safety Excellence 2010 programme. This will help bring the yard closer to its goal of an incident-free workplace.”
Date 22nd May 2008
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