Key Sustainability Focus Areas
Occupational Safety and Health
Empowering Our People
Contributing to Local Communities
Our People, Our Pride
We strive to maximise the potential of our people and empower advancement for communities.
To bring out the best in our employees, we provide competitive and dynamic remuneration and benefits, invest in their ongoing training and development, and foster a supportive culture that encourages openness. Just as crucially, we continuously evaluate and upgrade practices to safeguard our workplaces against occupational hazards and dangers, placing safety and health at the core of our commitment as an employer.
Beyond our workplaces, we bring positive value to local communities through the affordable housing we provide, employment opportunities we create and environmental ecosystems we protect, in addition to direct financial contributions that we provide to worthy community-based initiatives.
Occupational Safety and Health
Strengthening Employee Safety and Well-being
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Given the nature of our operations in manufacturing and construction, we adopt a comprehensive approach to occupational safety and health that enshrines the wellbeing and welfare of our employees as a paramount consideration.
By taking a proactive approach, we foster greater employee satisfaction and trust, leading to a higher level of retention. Furthermore, the safeguards we put in place help to minimise the risk of financial or reputational damage, strengthen our customer relationships and engender greater investor and shareholder trust.
Our practices in occupational safety and health encompass:
- Adopting safety and health policies and practices that comply to all national, local, industry-specific and occupation-specific laws, regulations and best practices
- Adopting a Group-wide Safety and Health Policy that outlines our key areas of commitment
- Maintaining robust safety and health management systems at all manufacturing plants and development sites
- Maintaining inclusive and balanced Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) Committees with fair representation from both the employer’s and employees’ sides, supported by designated safety officers at all worksites
- Establishing comprehensive processes to identify risks and manage work-related hazards
- Carrying out training for employees on occupational safety and health, supported by regular inspections to assess compliance
- Providing physical and mental health resources to employees, with special emphasis on strategies to cope with working stress and physical comfort while working
- Continuing to provide health services provided to our foreign workers, including via free health screenings for infectious diseases
- Installing automated machines to replace specific manual tasks, along with perimeter safety barriers around automated machinery, to improve the safety of our workers at various manufacturing plants
OUR PERFORMANCE:
Notes:
1. Statistics for Property Division includes data on both employees hired by Scientex as well as those appointed by our contractors
2. # Minor Injury: Injury which resulted in four days or less lost workdays
# Major Injury: Injury which resulted in more than four days lost workdays
3. * From FY2024, our disclosures will include Total Lost Time Injuries (Number), reflecting the total count of minor and major accidents that resulted in lost man-days. The modification of this disclosure aims to enhance our alignment with Bursa Malaysia’s Enhanced Sustainability Reporting Framework.
4. In further alignment with Bursa Malaysia’s Enhanced Sustainability Reporting Framework, the following disclosures have been restated in FY2024 to reflect the updated calculation methodology below:
- N1 – Total Number of Fatalities/Total Number of Hours Worked x 200,000
- N2 – Total Number of Injuries/Total Number of Hours Worked x 200,000
- N3 – Total Number of Ill-health/Total Number of Hours Worked x 200,000
- N4 – Total Number of Lost Time Injuries/Total Number of Hours Worked x 200,000
Empowering Our People
Creating Environments That Bring Out Our People’s Best
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People are the central cog of our business. They are the repository of our skills and capabilities, our drivers of innovation, and stewards of the culture we have nurtured over decades.
By investing in their satisfaction, growth and performance, we nurture and retain a high-performing and committed workforce with the tools to achieve our business objectives, thus sustaining our competitiveness and laying the groundwork for continued success over the long term.
Our approach to employee management and development encompasses:
- Strictly adhering to the labour practices and principles outlined in our Code of Ethics and entity-specific Human Resource policies
- Providing attractive yet dynamic benefits and remuneration to our employees, based upon the principles of equality and fairness
- Providing preferential employment opportunities to local Malaysians in line with the national agenda of cultivating local talents
- Providing hands-on work experience and career growth opportunities to graduates via our internship programme
- Engaging regularly and effectively with employees through various channels in order to facilitate constructive two-way communication, including via the promotion of our sustainability agenda during QRB dialogues
- Providing regular and role-specific training and development opportunities, including educational financial support, to promote personal and professional growth amongst employees
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Contributing To Local Communities
Supporting Sustainable Community Advancement
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We believe that our sustainable growth should bring about better tomorrows for local communities and the people who call them home.
This commitment begins with our affordable housing – which has enabled home ownership for many families in the middle-to-lower-income bracket – and extends to the economic opportunities we provide to our employees and suppliers plus our various, long-term social and environmental programmes, each of which continue to drive sustainable development and advancement.
As a whole, our efforts include:
- Providing quality affordable housing across a wider geographical footprint within Peninsular Malaysia
- Developing holistic townships that provide robust social value to surrounding areas by developing key infrastructure, unlocking job or business opportunities and enabling a higher quality of life
- Providing meaningful and sustainable employment and career advancement opportunities to members of local communities
- Instilling positive environmental practices amongst younger generations through the Green Truck Programme
- Providing local farmers with compost as an alternative to conventional, chemical fertilisers via our Back to Earth initiative, with over 1,100kg of compost donated in FY2024
- Providing basic health screenings and organising health talks in local communities
- Addressing shortfalls in blood banks through our blood donation drive
- Revitalising mangrove forests, which form an important ecosystem and vital source of economic value for local fishermen, across the state of Selangor, via our mangrove planting programme
- Contributing to Penang’s reforestation and carbon sequestration efforts through the One Million Tree Planting in a Day programme
- Providing direct financial contributions to fund the upgrading of facilities on local schools in the vicinity of our developments and support religious organisations, NGOs, community-based sports events and other organisations and causes