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Heavy Vehicle Defensive Driving Program
Fima Freight Forwarders Sdn Bhd’s operations rely heavily on road transport for the movement of goods.
During the course of the year, 15 of the company’s heavy vehicle drivers undertook a 2-day course in
defensive driving for the category of vehicle they are driving. The programme’s principal objective was to
improve the skills of the drivers
with particular focus on advanced
driving techniques that can be
used to anticipate and mitigate
potentially risky scenarios. Topics
related to traffic rules and the
hazards of fatigue, tiredness and
speeding were also highlighted.
It is expected that this program
will further improve the
company’s safety performance,
drivers’ ability to maintain a
safety-based driving behaviour,
reduction of related maintenance
costs whilst at the same time also
ensuring high service standards.
SPOTLIGHT STORY
Employee Development & Engagement
W
e view career development as part of our
commitment to building a more efficient, highly
motivated and talented team to ensure that the
Group can remain agile and responsive in competitive
environments. Every year, training allocation is
available for our employees to participate in internal or
external workshops and seminars. We also believe that
a combination of both formal and informal learning
channels develops targeted skills and knowledge for
a specific role. For example, our businesses regularly
conduct informal on-the-job training and refresher
courses on the use of apparatus and machinery,
loining and skinning of fish and fertilizer application to
address the skill gaps created by changes inter alia in
knowledge, technology and/or work processes.
We also encourage our people to look beyond their
experiences and current practices by undertaking job
rotation and overseas assignments for exposure in
different markets.
Where headcount reductions are necessary, affected
employees are redeployed to new job tasks where
retraining and skill upgrading is provided to help them
transition into the new tasks.
All new employees undergo an induction program
to help them familiarize themselves with all aspects
of the Company and the Group, understand the
responsibilities of their new role, the culture of our
business and the processes they need to follow as well
as our expectations for ethical conduct. They were
also provided with the Employee Handbook before,
or as soon as they start their new job. The Handbook
provides new employees with information about their
conditions of employment as well as the standards of
professional behaviour expected.
We also set annual key performance indicators for
our employees that reflect critical success factors in
their career development. This formal performance
and career development reviews which take place
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