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Sustainability report
SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2018
Responsibly Sourced
Seafood
The
Food Division
believes ocean
sustainability is important. The Division’s
PNG subsidiary, IFC, responsibly
sources their fish supply to support
and ensure the long-term viability
and conservation of fish resources.
Sustainability and traceability are high
on IFC’s agenda when making purchase
decisions.
By only sourcing tuna from an
approved list of fishing vessels, i.e.
those registered under the ProActive
Vehicle Register, IFC is able to ensure
it is not supporting illegal fishing or
sourcing from vessels on the Illegal,
Unreported and Unregulated (“IUU”)
blacklists supplied by the relevant tuna
management bodies. For each catch,
IFC is also able to determine when,
where and how it was caught. Observers
are regularly on board the vessels
that catch tuna to ensure the vessel
operators are adhering to the required
standards. During FYE2018, IFC did not
incur any IUU-related violations.
All of the tuna that IFC purchases are
caught by purse seine fishing. Purse
seine fishing is among the more efficient
methods of catching tuna as the amount
of bycatch is minimal compared to
other fishing methods. The majority of
the tuna that IFC buys is skipjack and
yellowfin which is widely considered to
be highly fertile and abundant. Moreover,
tuna fishery in PNG is managed under
the National Tuna Fishery Management
Plan, which regulates among others
total allowable catches of tuna thereby
maintaining sustainable stock levels.
Moving forward, IFC intends to source
more tuna caught without the use of
fish aggregating devices (“FAD”). FAD
is defined by the Western and Central
Pacific Fisheries Commission as
“
any
object or group of objects, of any size,
that has or has not been deployed,
that is living or non-living, including
but not limited to buoys, floats,
netting, webbing, plastics, bamboo,
logs and whale sharks floating on or
near the surface of the water that fish
may associate with
.”
FADs are used
by purse seine vessels largely to catch
tuna. A concern with using FAD is the
impact on all other non-tuna marine life
which become attracted to the FAD and
gets trapped in the net. That bycatch can
include sharks, swordfish and juvenile
fish. During the year, 98.6% of the tuna
purchased by IFC are caught without the
use of FADs (FYE2017:92.9%). Ultimately,
IFC endeavours to have its tuna source
and products to be 100% FAD-free.
Occupational Safety
& Health
We regard the safeguarding of our
employees, neighbours, visitors and
assets as a core indicator of our
business success.
Towards this end, we comply with all
the relevant national laws, regulations
and other requirements relating to
best practices in occupational safety
and health; and continuously carry out
activities aimed at preventing workplace
injuries. Preventive and scheduled
maintenance is regularly performed on
all the Group’s facilities, plants, storage
tanks and terminals; whereupon repairs
and replacements are made when
necessary or appropriate. Employees
who use any machinery are trained to do
so correctly, while training programmes
in the use of personal protective
equipment for workers handling or
exposed to hazardous materials are
regularly conducted and have been,
and will continue to be, a vital part of
the Group’s operations.
Chemical Industries
Council of Malaysia
All divisions have health and safety
committees which consist of divisional
management and employees. It is to
these committees that incidences are
reported, and where compliance with
policies is monitored, and improvements
are discussed.
For the third consecutive year, Fimachem
Sdn Bhd was presented with Merit
Awards in the Employee Health and Safety
Code and Distribution Code categories
at the Chemical Industries Council of
Malaysia Responsible Care Awards
2017/18. During the year, PTNJL’s palm
oil mill retained its accreditation of Sistem
Manajemen Keselamatan dan Kesehatan
Kerja (or “SMK3”), a local Indonesian
Government safety certification that is
comparable with the globally recognised
OHSAS 18001:2007.