Newsletter - Volume 11 & 12

TABLE OF CONTENT 03 - 04 05 - 07 01 Message from Managing Director 08 - 23 02 Health, Safety & Environment Performance 24 03 Events | November - December 25 04 Activities | November - December 05 Happening Next!

HEARTIES T C ongratulations Dear Mr. Chan, Congratulations on being awarded & recognized with the Sarawak Master Entrepreneurship Award 2019. Continue pushing forward Mr. Chan! We are all proud of you. Love, From all of us.

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MESSAGE FROM MANAGING DIRECTOR Sharon, thank you for highlighting the award to me as Sarawak Master Entrepreneur 2019. In fact, Sarawak Chamber of Commerce & Industry invited me to submit particulars for their consideration of this award for 2018 but I declined as Chemsain was happy to go on without much publicity. However, they made the approach again for the year 2019 award and I agreed as I thought it would not be nice to decline again. The Sarawak Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2019 were presented on 22nd November 2019. This event was organized by the Ministry of Industrial and Entrepreneur Development, Sarawak, in Association with Sarawak Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Ernst & Young. This prestigious Awards Program (“EOYS”) was first launched in 2004 and is held annually to honour and acknowledge exceptional entrepreneurial talent and leadership. Though this prestigious award is in recognition of my life journey and the growth and development of Chemsain Group of Companies over the years, but to me, all staff members have contributed and played a great role in bringing up Chemsain to become the biggest well-established and reputable company providing scientific and technological consultancy and supporting services with various Branches to cover the whole of Malaysia. So, in true fact, I received the above-mentioned award in recognition of all members of Chemsain and the Company. Therefore, I would like to express my grateful thanks to all Chemsain Directors and supporting staff for their loyalty, hard work, dedication and commitment without which Chemsain would not have achieved such a success. Basically, the success formula for Chemsain is that whatever we do in life, it must be with integrity to win over the confidence and trust from others. Chemsain conducts its business based on this principle. In addition, we bring on board the best people and provide them with good and useful training so that they can in return serve the Company well with efficiency and high productivity. Chemsain has, over the years, built a good and dedicated team which is well capable to bring the Company to greater heights. As many of you know, I have a tough life experience to improve myself and this would encourage the young to be determined to work hard to better themselves. Also, like me, the retirees can venture into business to keep themselves active and useful in life. The important thing in life is to be thankful with what you are blessed and also active and enjoy what you are doing and leave the rest to God. Chan Woon Peng November & December 04

Health, Safety Environment Performance Data YTD YTD DEC 2019 JAN - DEC JAN 2010 - KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS 2019 DEC 2019 SAFE MAN-HOURS WORK 80,342 961,148 7,187,715 Without Lost Time Injury(LTI) FATALITY CASES 0 00 0 00 SERIOUS INJURY (MEDICAL TREATMENT CASES) 0 0 9 cases Injury resulting in 4 or more days leave for 0 0 6 cases the victim (LTI) MINOR INJURY(FIRST AID) Injury without leave taken or less than 3 days leave taken. Non-Lost Time Injury for the victim (LTI) NEAR MISS INCIDENTS / ACCIDENTS (Non-injury/ non-LTI) HEALTH - OCCUPATIONAL POISONING & DISEASES CASE 0 0 0 FIRE INCIDENTS 0 0 2 cases CHEMICAL SPILLS 00 0 OTHER INCIDENTS 0 0 10 cases Resulting in eg.Property/Equipment damage, theft, negligent; Road accident before/after work etc. CHEMSAIN has achieved 80,342 safe man-hour in December 2019 without any Lost Time Injury (LTI). Chemsain has achieve 961,148 safe man-hours in Year 2019 and total of 7,187,715 safe man-hours accumulately since January 2010. Our accident rate per 1,000 workers is recorded at 0.00 compared to the National rating at 2.40 (as reported by Department of Occupational Safety and Health in Year 2018). 05 Chemsain Newsletter

TOTA L M A NH O UR S WI T H O UT LTI Total Manhours Accumulative Manhours 900 000 700 000 500 000 300 000 100 000 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEPT OCT NOV DEC November & December 06

Health, Safety Environment Performance Data MANHOURS CONTRIBUTORS - OCTOBER On 3rd October 2019, the Department of BORNEO Conference and Exhibition on Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH), Occupational Safety and Health lead by Mr. Mohd Nasir Bin Fii, conducted (“BOSH 2019”) organized by NIOSH in an audit at Chemsain Kota Kinabalu. The collaboration with DOSH on October 15, purpose of the audit was to ensure 2019 at the Imperial Hotel, Kuching. BOSH compliances to the Occupational Safety 2019 aims to discuss the current issues in and Health (Use and Standard Exposure occupational safety and health and also of Chemical Hazardous to Health) serve as a platform for professional Regulations 2000. networking among safety professionals to share the best practises when dealing HSE department participated in the with HSE related issues in their workplace. 07 Chemsain Newsletter

EVENTS NOVEMBER & DECEMBER November & December 08

CLASS REGULATIONS 2013 FOR CLASSIFIERS (CHEMICALS SUBSTANCES & MIXTURES) Organised by: Chemsain HRD 5 - 7 November 2019 | Chemsain Building, Kuching This training was intended for would be chemical classifiers to be able to classify chemical substances and mixtures, compile label based on the requirements of the Occupational Safety & Health (Classification, Labelling and Safety Data Sheet of Hazardous Chemicals) Regulations 2013 (or CLASS Regulations and the ICOP on Chemicals Classification and Hazard Communication 2014. The training comprised lectures, exercises, group discussions, presentations and classification evaluations. Through this training participants gained knowledge on the formulation of safety data sheet and other requirements of CLASS Regulations which was given during the training. They were able to read and construct a label for a substance listed in the Part I of the ICOP on Chemicals Classification and Hazard Communication 2014; Classify a substance and a mixture based on Part II of the ICOP on Chemicals Classification and Hazard Communication 2014; and Complete the classification record as required by the CLASS Regulations 2013. by Cassandra Henry 09 Chemsain Newsletter

P4R INITIATIVES – ENHANCE CONTRACTOR’S DELIVERABLES (STEP-UP WRITE & ANALYZE RIGHT) Laboratory Audit at Chemsain Konsultant Sdn.Bhd. 13 November 2019 | Chemsain Laboratory, Kuching Opening meeting. Discussion and verification audit at Laboratory Meeting Room. Group photo taken before Petronas team went to witness testings at Chemsain Kuching Laboratory. A team of six auditors from Petronas PD&T & Petronas Research Sdn Bhd, conducted an audit at Chemsain Kuching Laboratory for 2 days, on 11th-12th November 2019. The objective of the audit was to determine the overall compliance policy requirement, provide the assurance to management system implementation & to verify the compliance with quality management system based on ISO/IEC 170258:2017, inclusive analytical methods, SOPs, the quality manual, ethics policies, data integrity, internal laboratory policies, and regulatory & HSE requirements. The Petronas team conducted documentation reviews, as well as verifications which include records review, worksite observation on a few testings & interviews with laboratory technicians & chemists. Overall, the audit went on without a hiccup. by Ms.Caroline (Chemist, CL1) November & December 10

Lab Supervisor Mr Ruby explained to auditors how to prepare TPH in marine. Mr Ruby explained further on TPH analysis by GC. Laboratory walk about. Document checking & verification. 11 Chemsain Newsletter

RELOCATION OF LABORATORY’S OFFICE TO MEZZANINE FLOOR 22 November 2019 | Chemsain, Kota Kinabalu Relocating office furniture to the Mezzanine Floor by the male staff. An open working space for our Clerk, Technician & HSE Department. IT assisting with the network connection and computer related. Happy faces of our Chemist & Laboratory clerks. New Chemists room at Mezzanine Floor Previous Chemist Room at Level 3. On 22 November 2019, our laboratory office has officially moved to the newly constructed Mezzanine Floor. As seen in the picture, the clerks, technicians and HSE Department are sharing the open working space. The staff worked together throughout the whole process of transferring the office furnitures to the Mezzanine Floor. We truly appreciate the new office and would like to take this chance to express our gratitude to the Management for this great office. by Rita Sintoh November & December 12

CHRISTMAS GATHERING 5 December 2019 | Chemsain Building, Kuching The staff cheered as Mr. Chan made his entrance. Speech by our Managing Director, Mr. Chan On 5 December 2019, Chemsain Kuching organised a Christmas Gathering. The gathering took place at Level 4, Chemsian Building. It’s the last get-together session before the year 2019 ends and to welcome the new year of 2020. A corporate video of Mr. Chan was shown during the gathering. The gathering was also a surprise party to celebrate our Managing Director, Mr. Chan Woon Peng as he was recently awarded and recognized with the Sarawak Master Entrepreneurship Award 2019. Mr. Chan has been such a great inspirations for us all and he has proved that age is not an obstacle when it comes to chasing dreams and fulfilling them Once again, our heartiest congratulations to Mr. Chan! 13 Chemsain Newsletter

We also celebrated Chemsain IT Manager The Christmas lunch begins. Mr. Lawrence Chai’s birthday as his birth month was December. The gathering was filled with great food, cozy Christmas music and not to forget, Mr. Kofod was dressed as a Santa this year. It’s truly a gathering that we all needed. Thank you Yasmin(MO1) for organising the gathering! We truly appreciate all the hardwork you and your team have put in for this gathering. 2019 has been quite a ride but we all grow stronger as a person each day. Let’s do our best in the New Year and may 2020 bring us all the great experiences in life. Cheers to 2020! Mr. Lawrence cutting his birthday cake. A photo with Chemsain Santa. November & December 14

SUNNYDALE CHRISTMAS MARKET Organised by: Sunnydale Event 8 December 2019 | Chemsain Building, Kuching The second Sunnydale Christmas Market drew in a crowd of at least 300 people on Sunday, 8 December 2019. The Sunnydale Market event was created to support our local artisans, home bakers, small business owners and farmers, in which they get to showcase their handcrafted products and items made from fresh, organic produce. There was also lucky draw prizes for those who came and bought something from any of the 33 vendors that took part in the market. It was super fun to see customers get excited to support the vendors and kept coming back to try and draw more prizes. Some of the prizes sponsored from our generous vendors included gift basket from ARO Sarawak, make-up sets from MekapStori, snacks from Karen Says Cookies and many more. There will be at least 3 market events happening in 2020, so stay tuned for that. by Lydia Sylvester (Sunnydale Event) 15 Chemsain Newsletter

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TRAINING & WORK SESSION FOR OFFSHORE MONITORING TESTING Organised by: MO1 Department 9 - 12 December 2019 | Chemsain Building, Kuching 36 employees from Chemsain Kuching, Miri, Bintulu, Kota Kinabalu, Kemaman & Subang Jaya attended a three-day training & work session in Chemsain Building, Kuching. Marine taxonomy experts from UNIMAS, Dr. Jongkar Grinang and Dr. Teng Sing Tung were invited to train participants on the macrobenthos and plankton sampling respectively. This work session achieved its aim to discuss and update our practices across Chemsain offices including offshore sampling Standard Operating Procedure, pre-mob procedure and documentation, reporting, and work flow. A post-mortem meeting for offshore trip was also opened for all team leaders to share information on year 2019 sampling activities. by Amelia Ng (MO1) 17 Chemsain Newsletter

HSE DAY Organised by: HSE Department 10 December 2019 | Chemsain Building, Kuching Blood Donation campaign carried out by Sarawak General Hospital. November & December 18

On 10th December 2019, Chemsain “CHEMSAIN HSE Key Performance Index, Leading & Lagging Factor and A Way Forward”, presented by Khairil Abel, HSE Manager of Chemsain. organized HSE Day, to promote health awareness to the staff. A Free Health Screening activity sponsored by Pathlab Laboratory and a Blood Donation campaign carried out by Sarawak General Hospital were also held in conjuction with the event. A total of 40 nominated staffs from various department participated in the health talk at Raflesia Room, Chemsain Building. HSE department would like to thank all committee members who participated in this event. by Felbian Jolhing (HSE) Free Health Screening by Pathlab Laboratory at Chemsain Auditorium. 19 Chemsain Newsletter

“STAKEHOLDERS ENGAGEMENT WORKSHOP & FORUM” ON A STUDY INTO THE MANPOWER REQUIREMENT FOR LOGISTIC INDUSTRY, SARAWAK” Organised by: CESB 18 December 2019 | Chemsain Building, Kuching Welcome remarks and introduction to the Study by Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Research (MESTR). Chemsain Engineering Sdn Bhd (CESB) has been Briefing on “Study on Manpower Requirement for Logistics Industry in appointed and authorized by the Ministry of Sarawak” by En.Mohammad Siphon as a Facilitator. Education, Science and Technological Research (MESTR) Sarawak to conduct a study into the “Manpower Requirement for Logistic Industry, Sarawak. As part of the study, A workshop and forum were organised on 18th December 2019 at Level 6, Chemsain Building.The workshop was held in order to obtain feedbacks from various agencies, associations and industry captains on the various skills and credentials of manpower that the Sarawak logistic industry should have in order to cater for the various infrastructure, agriculture, industrial, trade and commercial development initiatives that the Sarawak Government has planned and put into action. by Lydiana Lynmentan November & December 20

Workshop session & presentation of findings in designated groups. 21 Chemsain Newsletter

WORKSHOP ON METHOD VALIDATION FOR MICROBIOLOGY Organised by: Chemsain HRD 19 - 20 December 2019 | Chemsain Building, Kuching The 2-Day training has helped the participants to further understand the correct approach of method validation (microbiological analysis) before their introduction into routine use. Whenever the conditions change for which the method has been validated (e.g., Changes in type of media used, reagent and food matrix) or when the method is changed and the change is outside the original scope of the method. Furthermore, the participants also learned to recognise the correct approaches of validation or verification recommended that are based on the type of analytical methods. Besides that, the standard method (Method developed by organization such as, AOAC, APHA, FDA/BAM, AS METHOD, EPA, ISO) - Verification of trueness and precision. Non-standard method (well established or method published in scientific literature and states important performance characteristic) - Extensive validation to prove determined characteristic (trueness, precision and detection limit). Modified standard method (Changes in type of media used, reagent and food matrix, incubation temperature/period) - Verification of trueness, precision and detection limit. Laboratory Method (developed method or published method without performance characteristic given) - Full validation. One of the purposes of the training was to help assist the participants to determine analytical performance characteristics which shall be considered for either validation or verification of method. Other than that, to understand how performance characteristics for quantitative and qualitative methods are determined depending on the types of methods used - Trueness /Accuracy, Precision, Sensitivity, Specificity, Selectivity, LOD, false positive, false negative and Robustness. Participants also learnt the requirements before carrying out method validation and the quality control procedure during method validation and monitoring analyst competency. by Cassandra Henry November & December 22

FORKLIFT SAFETY AWARENESS TRAINING Organised by: Chemsain HRD 30 December 2019 | FFM Marketing Sdn. Bhd., Kuching On 30th December 2019, 12 participants attended the Forklift Safety Awareness Training held at FFM Marketing Sdn. Bhd., Kuching.This training aimed to instill awareness and train employees on safe forklift driving during their daily tasks to enable them to function effectively as a responsible and competent forklift operator. by Cassandra Henry 23 Chemsain Newsletter

ZUMBA Organised by: HSE Department November & December 2019 | Chemsain Building, Kuching Thank you to HSE Department and organising committee for arranging Zumba class. Zumba session helps us to stay fit and healthy. Our Zumba instructor is also helpful in terms of giving health advice such as intermittent fasting and encourage us to work out more at home in order to achieve a better result. Let us start 2020 by practicing healthy lifetysle! by Irene Yong November & December 24

Happening Next 01 Offshore Work Session 8th - 11th January 2020 02 Annual Dinner : Bintulu CKSB Division 10th January 20200 03 Get Together D i nn er ( C L3 ) 11th January 2020 04 In-Hous e S a fety Tr a i n i n g 13th January 2020 05 Chemsain CNY Celebration Gathering 7th February 2020 25 Chemsain Newsletter







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