Ports Of Entry Staff Attend OHS Safety Management Training
40 staff members from both Fiji Ports Corporation Limited (FPCL) and Fiji Ship and Heavy Industries Limited (FSHIL) - it focused on health and safety of those that operate at Fiji’s ports of entry.
Saturday 23 March 2019 | 14:23
Participants of the Fiji Ports Corporation Limited and Fiji Ship and Heavy Industries Limited OHS training at Mua-i-Walu House on March 15, 2019.
In its bid to promote safety management of human resources with occupational health and safety, Fiji Ports Corporation Limited (FPCL) hosted a two-day workshop on ISP0 ISO 45001:2018 on March 14 & 15, 2019 at Mua-i-walu House, in Suva.
ISO 45001:2018 specifies requirements for an Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) management system, and gives guidance for its use, enabling organisations to provide safe and healthy workplaces by preventing work-related injury and ill health, as well as by proactively improving its OHS performance.
The OHS workshop involved 40 staff members from both Fiji Ports Corporation Limited (FPCL) and Fiji Ship and Heavy Industries Limited (FSHIL; it focused on health and safety of those that operate at Fiji’s ports of entry.
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FPCL chief financial officer Roshan Abeyesundere said ISO 45001:2018 enabled organisations to provide safe and healthy workplaces by preventing work-related injury and ill health, as well as by proactively improving its OHS performance.
“At the end of this workshop we hope to enable FPCL and FSHIL integrate other aspects of health and safety, such as worker wellness and wellbeing,” Mr Abeyesundere said.
“Upholding the workers’ wellness and wellbeing is one of FPCL’s six key organisation values for employee wellbeing and diversity,” he said.
“For FSHIL, the ISO 45001:2018 certification is a stepping stone to becoming the first ship repair and ship refit to be recognised as a Class - DNV-GL registered.”
He said that it was interesting to note that FSHIL was certified ISO 9001:2008 in 2015 and was renewed to ISO 9001:2015 in 2017.
He reminded the participants on the important role they play for the organisation.
“The organisation is placing its trust on you with the responsibility of ensuring that the risks are managed well and that we comply with the expected OHS standard.”
The training was conducted by acting director of the Sri Lanka Standards Institution Nayana Gunathilaka.
SLSI is the prominent national standards body in Sri Lanka and affiliated as a member to the International Organisation for Standards since its inception in 1964.
