- Newly minted Safety, Health and Environment Quality (SHEQ) Policy was cascaded
- SHE focal points participated in workshops designed to strengthen team actions
Geared towards standardizing the health, safety, and environmental management practices of all power business units, AboitizPower held its first ever Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) Forum last October 8 to 9 in Bonifacio Global City. Addressing the participants during his keynote message, AboitizPower Generation EVP and COO Manny Rubio, said everyone has a role to play in ensuring a safe environment. Citing the safety statistics of AboitizPower, he emphasized the need for a concerted effort. “Safety is good business. If I can’t manage safety, I can’t manage,” he said. He encouraged all participants in the forum to contribute ideas with a view to enhancing safety and minimizing the chance of accidents. He also expected such ideas to be crystallized into concrete action plans and measures to further improve occupational safety and health performance. The inputs AboitizPower holds first SHEQ Forum gathered from the SHE focal points will form part of the action plan in carrying out the intent of the newly approved SHEQ policy.
There were 35 SHE focal points from the generation and distribution utilities business units, AboitizPower Internal Audit, Business Development and Asset Management, and AEV Sustainability who participated in experience exchanges and problem-based learning sessions.
The highlights of the forum included:
• Creating standard plant entry rules facilitated by Aldreck Madelo of CPPC
• Using the “Rock the Boat” approach to achieving IMS certification shared by Nomer Reynaldo and Katrina Teodoro of SNAP
• Modeling emergency action plan and protocol by Ronald Ambrocio of APRI
• Charting the unified procedure and developing the guideline of the three-year SHEQ program facilitated by Marco Carlo of AboitizPower SHEQ
• Applying behavior-based safety by Kishler Pascual of TSI
• Managing Wastes, What works best: by Roel Densing of EAUC
• Managing watersheds and engaging stakeholders by Cranep Udan of Hedcor
• Designing a waste management program and addressing gaps facilitated by Faye Manlosa and JR Abella of AboitizPower SHEQ.
• Optimizing asset management shared by Kenton Heurtz
• Communicating SHEQ through the Aboitiz BetterWorld channels by Gloidan Papas and Dave Devilles of AEV Sustainability.