SEMATAN: Pan Borneo Highway (PBH) Sarawak project has clocked 10 million man-hours without Lost Time Injury (LTI) achievement in its construction. This is barely two years into the project which started in October 2015, said a press statement yesterday A ceremony to commemorate this achievement was held in Sematan yesterday at the site office of Telok Melano-Sematan (TMS) works package.
In his speech, chief executive officer of Lebuhraya Borneo Utara Sdn Bhd (LBU), Ir. Safuani Abdul Hamid said six out of the 11 works packages had each achieved one million man hours without LTI which contributed to the overall achievement.
LBU is the Project Delivery Partner for PBH Sarawak. The 10-million achievement was achieved two months ahead of the scheduled target in December this year. As of 25 October this year, the project had achieved a cumulative 11,171,121 man-hours without LTI. Stressing that no life is worth sacrificing in any job, Safuani said LBU took the health, safety, environment and traffic (HSET) seriously.
“There is an estimated average of 1,863 workers daily from project managers to the general workers who are based at the 25 sites out of the 11 works packages. “As of today, we have an estimated 5,990 workers registered at all the 11 works packages a month,” he said while sharing with those present the best practices that had been adopted by this single largest infrastructure project in the state.
Among the best practices he highlighted were the well-equipped Centralised Labour Quarters (CLQ), traffic management at construction sites and the emergency response team (ERT).
Meanwhile, permanent secretary to Infrastructure Development and Transportation Ministry, Datu Safri Zainuddin in his speech said safety work culture must be in place to ensure that no life is being compromised. Later, Safri together with Safuani and other distinguished guests launched Pan Borneo Highway Sarawak’s HSET road safety campaign to promote safe driving among road users.
