1. health and fitness

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
KVMRT Tunnel Contractor Wins Safety Award from British Safety Council
Kuala Lumpur, 9 April 2015: The Underground Works Package Contractor for the
KVMRT Sungai Buloh – Kajang Line, MMC-Gamuda KVMRT (T) Sdn Bhd (MGKT) has
recently been announced a Winner of the International Safety Award (with Distinction) from
the British Safety Council in recognition of its commitment to health and safety management.
Now in their 57th year, the International Safety Awards are highly regarded by health and
safety management practitioners. MGKT as one of the 2015 Distinction Award winners
demonstrated their commitment to preventing workplace injuries and work-related ill health
to the British Safety Council’s independent adjudicators.
Neal Stone, Acting Chief Executive of the British Safety Council, congratulated MGKT for
winning the award.
“On behalf of the Trustees and staff of the British Safety Council we warmly congratulate
MGKT and its employees on gaining an International Safety Award with distinction for 2015.
All of those working at MGKT’s Underground and Tunnelling work sites have made this
award possible, which recognises their pledge to preventing injury and ill health in the
workplace”.
“It was also apparent that these winning organisations overall recognise the value that
proportionate and sensible management of occupational health and safety risks brings to the
organisation, its people and society”.
Stone added, “The International Labour Organisation estimates that every year over 2.3
million people globally are senselessly killed due to workplace injury and work-related ill
health and an estimated 4% of global GDP is lost due to health and safety failure. Awards
have an important role to play in shining a light on those employers who are taking sensible
and effective steps to ensure the health, safety and welfare of their workers, celebrating their
efforts and encouraging other businesses everywhere”.
MGKT Director Dato’ Paul Ha said the International Safety Award reflects the importance of
high standards of Safety and Health at work.
“A Culture of Safety is not something that can be adopted or realized overnight, it takes years
of hard work, commitment and more importantly, it is about the Senior Management making
impactful Safety and Health related decisions. The decisions have indeed resonated in the
form of definite action plans at site culminating in the Award benchmarking us against our
peers internationally, and our efforts have borne fruit,” Ha said.
It is worth noting that the prestigious annual award is given exclusively to companies that
demonstrate exemplary levels of commitment and performance attainment within Safety and
Health management at a specific site or business unit.
“MGKT was one of 29 organisations globally to have achieved the ‘Distinction’ award, being
the top 5% of all 535 organisations that were eligible to enter this international competition”,
Ha said.
In addition to the strict pre-entry criteria where an organisation cannot have sustained any
fatalities or have any prosecutions past or pending, the award is based upon stringent
assessment of safety management systems, practices and strategic philosophy.
Ha said the recent win was a concerted effort from all staff and the construction team of
MGKT.
“Without significant effort by all, this international recognition of excellence would not have
been possible,” he added.
The Award will be presented to MGKT at a special ceremony in London on 24 April, 2015.
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About MMC-Gamuda KVMRT (T) Sdn Bhd (MGKT)
MGKT was set up to undertake the design and construction work for the Underground Work
Package comprising 9.5km of tunnels and 7 underground stations of Klang Valley Mass
Rapid Transit (MRT)’s Sungai-Buloh-Kajang Line. The MRT project is part of the
Government’s Economic Transformation Programme and owned by the Government of
Malaysia through MRT Corporation Sdn Bhd (MRT Corp).
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Dr Bhavani Krishna Iyer
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