Volume 5 & 6

CHEMSAIN NEWSLETTER Volume 5 & 6 | May & June 2019

content Vol. 5 & Vol. 6 01 02 Message from Greeting Managing Director 05 - 06 03 - 04 04 03 Events Health, Safety & May - June Environment Performance 09 - 23 07 - 08

Today Is Your Opportunity To BUILD THE TOMORROW YOU WANT. Ken Poirot

MESSAGE FROM MANAGING DIRECTOR PAGE 3

“ For this year, end of May and first week of June are crowded with festive VOL UM E 5 & 6 | M AY & JUNE seasons with Pesta Kaamatan celebrations by the Kadazan- Dusun Communities in Sabah and Labuan on 30th & 31st May, the Gawai Dayak by the Dayak Communities in Sarawak on 1st June and the Hari Raya Puasa Aidilfitri by the Muslims on 5th June. For these festive seasons, we wish the Kadazan-Dusun Communities Kotobian Tadau Tagazo Do Kaamatan, the Dayak Communities Gaya Guru Gerai Nyamai and the Muslims Salam Aidilfitri Maaf Zahir and Batin. Traditionally, all races of different religion and culture join in the celebrations of each others festive occasions. These celebrations are unique in our country which cement love among family members, closer ties of all people and thus greatly contribute to the strong unity, peace and harmony in our country. In addition to other celebrations in the Company of the festive occasions, we have to congratulate Chemsain Kemaman for holding their first Hari Raya Open House for great fellowship among staff and clients. Ms. Nur Syaida Binti Yusof and her team members had done a splendid job to make the function such a huge success. The presence of Director Mr. Mohammad Bin Siphon for the occasion was also much appreciated. We would like to congratulate Mr. Ian Chin of Chemsain Environmental Division for having been awarded a 6-week Fellowship in the United States of America under the theme of sustainable development and environment. He was the only Sarawakian selected for the Fellowship known as Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative 2019. He is now enthusiastic in sharing the knowledge gained for Sustainable Development and Agriculture. Sunnydale has made every effort to organize the Sunnydale Market with some pleasant musical entertainment. The Sunnydale Market concept is still in its infancy but will have great potential to attract good vendors to draw in more people to this occasional event. Let us give the organizers every support for the success of Sunnydale Market. Chemsain members are encouraged to continue with the various indoor and outdoor activities to have good and enjoyable fellowship which will surely strengthen team spirit among them. At the same time, please do always keep in mind to enjoy in what we are doing and be thankful for all the blessings. MANAGING DIRECTOR, CHAN WOON PENG ” PAGE 4

Kotobian Tadau Tagazo Do Ka’amatan & Selamat Hari Gawai

VOL UM E 5 & 6 | M AY & JUNE Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri Maaf Zahir & Batin

1. Health, Safety Environment Performance KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS YTD YTD JUNE 2019 JAN - JUNE JAN 2010 - SAFE MAN-HOURS WORK 2019 JUNE 2019 Without Lost Time Injury(LTI) 75,547 467,276 6,226,567 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 0 0 10 cases OTHER INCIDENTS Resulting in eg.Property/Equipment damage, theft, negligent; Road accident before/after work etc PAGE 7

TOTTAOLTAML AMNA NHHOO UURRSSWWI TIHTOHUOT LUTTI LTI VOL UM E 5 & 6 | M AY & JUNE Total Manhours Accumulative Manhours JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEPT OCT NOV DEC 100 000 300 000 500 000 MANHOURS CONTRIBUTORS KUCHING 27, 352 KOTA KINABALU 26,829 MIRI SUBANG JAYA 22, 372 BINTULU 21,459 BUKIT JELUTONG KEMAMAN 8, 246 JOHOR BAHRU 8,126 LABUAN BRUNEI 7,349 6,725 4, 577 3,872 3, 876 May 3, 553 June 2,107 1, 655 1,762 1, 237 1,154 1, 037 1,325 1,054 PAGE 8



KK Family VOL UM E 5 & 6 | M AY & JUNE Fun Day 27 April 2019 Crystal Bridge’s Farm, Kibunut, Penampang, Sabah Chemsain KK Family Fun Day was held to promote fitness and healthy lifestyle values whilst strengthening the bonds between everyone in Chemsain KK, with the hope to develop the values of team spirit and togetherness. The families enjoyed the nature and other entertaining activities such as Zumba, the temple of the rock and balloon chain. Half of them managed to take a group photo together while the rest were already wandering in nature. PAGE 10

YSEALI 2019 Spring Fellowship Spring 2019 Nebraska, US Write-Up by Ian Chin | ENV1 Greetings Chemsain friends. I have had the pleasure of being invited to share my recent trip to beautiful Nebraska in the United States of America. Along with 15 Malaysians, I was honored to have been selected to attend the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) 2019 Spring Fellowship for a period of 6 weeks under the theme of sustainable development and environment. The application was lengthy and grueling, but I am proud to be the only Sarawakian representative to attend this fellowship. After 32 hours of flights and transits, the fellowship kicked off in Washington D.C., the capital of U.S.A. Stepping foot on the concrete marvel feels very surreal because I have only seen it on movies and T.V. The city feels like a big museum, with monuments and Greek architecture strewn from building to building where most of the buildings have historical values and backgrounds. Anyway, moving on, enough sightseeing, it’s time for orientation. I was in a group of around thirty other Southeast Asians stemming from Myanmar and Laos to the north, and all the way south to Timor-Leste and Indonesia. All of us are here under the same theme of Sustainable Development and Agriculture, and all of us here have the same dream of seeing changes in sustainability in our respective countries. I have had the pleasure of being in the presence of such amazing and passionate individuals. We got along very well in almost no time. Alas, we were here on a mission, the mission to learn all we can from our hosts in the U.S.A and to bring the knowledge and networking back to our respective homes. Thus, we were separated into different countries with different host organizations. Since my interests were to see more sustainable agriculture, I was placed in beautiful Omaha, Nebraska – the agricultural center of the U.S.A. PAGE 11

A fellow from Laos and I got to enjoy the VOL UM E 5 & 6 | M AY & JUNE odd temperatures of Omaha, where it can be suddenly cold and warm in the blink of an eye. These temperatures coupled with Nebraska’s wide water catchments make an ideal location for agriculture – where 93% of Nebraska is covered in farmlands, and the rest is either urban, private or protected areas. Imagine that! It is in Omaha that we met our hosts from Omaha Permaculture, a Non-government organization that strives to develop the local community through spreading permaculture and sustainable land stewardship. Gus von Roenn, the founder and director of Omaha Permaculture is an extremely humble man who genuinely cares about the environment and its people. We were very lucky to have met this amazing man and to have him host our stay. I learned many things from Gus, from technical agricultural knowledge, leadership qualities and how to start a successful NGO from the ground up. A truly inspirational leader and a very compassionate man. I cannot thank him and the staff of Omaha Permaculture enough for giving me this unforgettable experience. Through the teachings of Gus (as far as I can understand without hitting Wikipedia), Permaculture is the principle of agriculture and community development in which a community develops a piece of land by observing the land, identifying what it needs, plant the crops and allowing the crops to flourish with minimal interference. This means less fertilizer and no herbicides and pesticides. Due to this, I spent most of my working hours in Omaha farming, planting all sorts of vegetables, and networking with local agricultural institutes and organizations. PAGE 12

YSEALI 2019 Spring Fellowship Spring 2019 Nebraska, US Write-Up by Ian Chin | ENV1 The trip ended with a congress back in Washington D.C. with 236 other fellows from all around the globe. We shared our ideas and our issues, but most importantly, we made friends with each other. My social media is now full of foreign languages and new connections. I even managed to meet up with the ambassador of Malaysia to discuss further on future projects. It was a hectic time, running on less than 12 hours sleep in 3 days is nothing less than blissful torture. Well this is all the time I have for sharing. I am back in Kuching and looking forward to running the community development projects assigned to me by YSEALI. So, if anybody has any interest in helping out for any permaculture projects please voice out to me. Also, if you need more information about YSEALI, please also feel free to give me a shout out or visit our ICMA blog (https://icmaysealifellows. blog/) to read about our experiences. I’d be happy to share what I know. Thank you Chemsain for providing me the opportunity to share my experiences. Good tidings and have a great day ahead! PAGE 13

Sunnydale VOL UM E 5 & 6 | M AY & JUNE Market 18 May 2019 Chemsain Building, KCH As the Harvest Festival and Eid Mubarak were approaching, Sunnydale 1928 Events organized Sunnydale Market. The event gathered unique local vendors for a day, where the public could come and support them while being entertained by performances, and indulge in food and drinks served by the Sunnydale 1928 Café. Saturday’s market saw a total of 27 vendors, which included beading crafts, skin care, baked goods, jewelry and so forth. A few booths namely Andrea’s Küche, Hedjraa, Marik by Entayang, Mini Succulents Garden, Shedy Handmade, Little Aiman Handmadecraft and many more participated in the event. This market acts as a platform to encourage more people to support these local startup enterprises. Sunnydale Market also hosted an activity called “Pop the Balloons with Blowpipe”. Customers who made any purchases were able to win great prizes by popping the balloons with darts using a blowpipe (a traditional way of hunting by the natives back in the old day). PAGE 14

Ramadan Buffet 18 May 2019 Chemsain Building, KCH The month of Ramadhan is a month for which Muslims all over the world observe fasting from dawn to dusk. In Malaysia, it is no exception, neither in Sarawak nor in Kuching. However, while fasting is a period full of reflections over deeds and redemptions, the breaking of fast however, or “buka puasa time” as it is commonly known throughout Malaysia is a world of culinary and fiestas, be it in and around the Ramadhan Bazaars, street side stalls, boutique and hipster cafes and restaurant up to in posh and fine dining avenues. Chemsain Building located at 172 Jalan Rock, Kuching of course is definitely no exception either. The Sunnydale Café, a popular, Instagram-worthy corner of the building nestled right at the entrance of the building offered and PAGE 15

hosted a number of buka puasa events for a VOL UM E 5 & 6 | M AY & JUNE varied clientele of the Chemsain Group of Companies. The Sunnydale Café offered a spread of unique menu, specially curated, crafted and presented by the Café’s very own Chef Master, Chef Bryan and his team of dedicated chefs, the sort of chef extraordinaire who can whip up a fantastic buka puasa meal, regardless of the ingredients on hand. However fret not, the ingredients and menus by Chef Bryan never compromised on quality and quantity. The Sunnydale Café pride itself of being able to be part of both the humbleness of Ramadhan as it prepare the dishes menu during the day and present them to the patrons of the company and the public alike during the buka puasa time that unites all Malaysian, Sarawakians, Kuchingites from all walks of life, to the food of the day. All in a day of work, presented by Sunnydale Café. Zumba 13 & 26 June 2019 Chemsain Building, KCH Zumba is back! Chemsain staff enjoying their Zumba session after hustling in the office. Zumba session is instructed by Rynda. PAGE 16

DTCK Exhibition 17 June 2019 Cyberjaya, Kuala Lumpur On 17th June 2019, Malaysia DroneTech Industry, Futurise and Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) organised Malaysia Drone Tech Expo, MyDroneX, a one-day event focused on everything Drone related technologies. This inaugural event in Cyberjaya aimed to deliver participants an experiential and educational program on everything Drone and to cultivate interests and conversations on the technology to addressable market. The event featured keynote speechs from leading authorities, industry specific panel discussions by experts, training, showcase, pitch and formulate relevant policy and regulatory recommendations for the Malaysia DroneTech ecosystem. PAGE 17

Photography VOL UM E 5 & 6 | M AY & JUNE Workshop 22 June 2019 Chemsain Building, Kuching Photography workshop by Balkizz by Ms. Balkizz who came all the Sulaiman oversaw 15 keen learners, way from Miri. The workshop also including three of Chemsain staff. encourages the participants to This photography workshop helps the bond with each other and to local start-up enterprise on how to support each other’s products. take photo of their products by just As for the staff of Chemsain, this using a smartphone and editing app workshop will certainly help them that are available on the smartphone. to better their food photography Participants learnt the importance of skill for both Sunnydale cafe and the aesthetic value of photography in Chemsain in many possible ways. order to boost their sales through social media. It was a relaxing and yet educating workshop conducted PAGE 18

Chemicals Hazard Management & Hearing Conservation Training 25 June 2019 Grand Dorsett Hotel, Labuan Chemical Hazard Management Training encompasses chemical hazards, chemical handling, and exposure and control measures. During the program, there were group discussions and practical labelling sessions to further assist participants in determining and identifying the characteristics of chemical substances, how to minimize the risk associated with chemical handling, understanding what are the relevant procedures when dealing with chemical spillages and referring to relevant legislations. Meanwhile, Hearing Conservation Training encompasses an introduction to noise, regulations on noise exposures, hearing mechanism and its effects, hearing conservation program management, audiometry workplace and hearing protection devices. During this training, a group discussion was conducted. This training helped to develop participant knowledge on noise exposure and effects of noise in the workplace apart from creating awareness about the importance of hearing. PAGE 19

Workplace VOL UM E 5 & 6 | M AY & JUNE Inspections Training 24 June 2019 Chemsain Building, Kuching Mr.Khairil demonstrates on how to use the stack parking available at Chemsain basement parking space. All staff using the stack parking are required to attend this training. PAGE 20

Gawai & Raya Potluck Gathering 27 June 2019 Chemsain Building, Kuching Chemsain family gathered for a Gawai & Raya Potluck Gathering. PAGE 21

Chemsain VOL UM E 5 & 6 | M AY & JUNE Berambeh Raya Open House 30 June 2019 Grand Tapis Ballroom - KGRP Kerteh, Terengganu Hari Raya Aidilfitri officially begins at the sighting of the moon on the last day of Ramadhan, and it is the most joyous celebration for the Muslims worldwide. Dr. John Chan had suggested Chemsain Kemaman (CK7) to hold a Hari Raya Open House gathering to bond not just with the staff but also with clients. The event began with a welcome speech by Director of Chemsain Konsultant Sdn Bhd, Mr. Mohammad Bin Siphon. The corporate video of Chemsain was also shown during the event together with introduction on the new environmental services, Drone Monitoring and Water Infrastructure. PAGE 22

Chemsain VOL UM E 5 & 6 | M AY & JUNE Berambeh Raya Open House 30 June 2019 Grand Tapis Ballroom - KGRP Kerteh, Terengganu The event brought the staff and potential clients together to discuss on the future collaborations in the field of Environmental Service. The event also included activities such as Karaoke and Lucky Draw sessions. In a nutshell, the main objective to serve the clients with good Environmental Service was achieved. PAGE 23

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